Every time he visits any province, district, or city, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) always hears that the main complaint is the lack of electricity. "Some have reported, Regent,

"Sir, there is very little electricity here." Moving again to another province, “Sir, the electricity here is still lacking, it often goes out, it is often byarpet. This is indeed a fact that we are facing,” explained the President when inaugurating the Electricity for the Villages of Papua-West Papua, Maluku-North Maluku; Inauguration of PLTMH and PLTS Spread; Inauguration of North Maluku PLTU 2 X 7 MW; and Groundbreaking of the 50 MW MPP Jayapura PLTMG at the MPP Jayapura 50 MW Gas Engine Power Plant Development Project, Holtekamp, ​​Muara Tami District, Jayapura, Papua, Tuesday (9/5).

President Jokowi also said that he had ordered his staff, including the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, the Minister of SOEs, and the President Director of PLN to quickly resolve the shortages that were already very urgent in the regions, especially in Eastern Indonesia, especially in West Papua.

It should also be noted that until 2019, according to the President, currently the total demand for Papua, Papua and West Papua is 280MW. He added that by 2019, it is hoped that the figure will be 730MW, which has more than doubled so that it is hoped that there will be no more electricity shortages in West Papua.

"I have ordered the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources to give priority to the use of gas for our electricity. Not all coal, there must be several power plants, both using gas, using microhydro power, using the sun, and also ocean currents, which we will also start in NTT," said the President, who also said that these are the efforts made by the government in order to provide electricity. To various ministries, President Jokowi has ordered to present various breakthroughs in order to accelerate the development of electricity infrastructure.