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Indonesia eyes foreign loans to support electricity projects

Indonesia’s State Electricity Company PLN has said that it will mobilise funding from foreign resources, given that it needs an investment of around 72 trillion ringgit (4.7 billion USD) per year until 2030 in order to support electricity projects.
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Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesia’s State Electricity Company PLN has saidthat it will mobilise funding from foreign resources, given that it needs aninvestment of around 72 trillion ringgit (4.7 billion USD) per year until 2030in order to support electricity projects.

PLN Vice President in charge of Financial Institutions andMarket Research Maya Rani Puspita said that the external funding support isin the form of State Capital Participation (PMN) of the government or throughloans.

To date, several options for loan schemes that have beencarried out by PLN include two-step loans or forwarding loans from thegovernment.

Maya explained that two-step loans are a funding scheme withloans made on a Government-to-Government basis which will then be lent by thegovernment to the PLN.

In addition, the PLN also has loans with direct lending schemesfrom within and outside the country, both with or without government guarantees./.
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