Problem of Biodiesel Development
Third standards above have fluctuating prices, respectively, and the government should immediately set the standard prices prevailing at Pertamina.
The quality of biodiesel produced by each uncontrolled biodiesel industry, in particular small and medium-scale industry that does not have complete testing
facilities. Poor quality of biodiesel will lead to problems on machines that use biodiesel. The last problem is the environmental issues. As the only raw material,
palm oil still has homework related to deforestation, land acquisition, and greenhouse gas emission. The stakeholders also provide their idea of solution
related to the problems, complete problems and solution are listed in table 5.
Table 6 Problem and Solution from stakeholder perspective
No Actors
Problems Solutions
1
Biodiesel Industry
High cost distribution Improvement in infrastructure
Pricing standard not fix Agreement on Pricing standard
Raw material supply and price
Technology development in biodiesel raw material from
CPO by product
No technology support Joint with international
enterprise to develop new technology in biodiesel usage
2 Academic
Biodiesel depend on CPO
Develop new raw material for biodiesel
Limited Research on raw material
Joint research with industry Oil price fluctuation
Pricing Standards Tax policy not support
small biodiesel industry Different tax treatment for large
industry and small-medium industry
3
Government Consumer acceptance
on high blending biodiesel
Advance research on biodiesel usage
Raw material supply and price
Agreement with CPO producers and develop new raw material
4
Biodiesel Associations
Environmental issue Technology development in
biodiesel productions Government
commitment on the biodiesel program
Long term policy
Government provide subsidy
Subsidy only for biodiesel not a biodiesel blending fuel.
5 Pertamina
Biodiesel standardization is
uncontrolled for small- medium scale biodiesel
industry Government incentive and fix
regulations
Pricing standard of biodiesel
Pricing agreement for long term Distribution
infrastructure seaport Improve the infrastructure
From the table 5, the solutions from one stakeholder are also the solutions for the other stakeholder. They share their perspective in the problem and
solutions. Overall, the problems in biodiesel development in Indonesia are: • High Cost production due to price of CPO, production technology and
infrastructure of distribution • Different pricing standards
• Biodiesel Standardization: low quality control • Environment issue: deforestation, fire, GHG Emission and social problem
• Biodiesel depends on palm oil supply According to Daryanto 2010, the biodiesel development faced obstacles
in Technical, Financial, Regulation, Social and Market. Those obstacles are arising until now, even though government has revised the biodiesel policy. The
government should accommodate the solutions offered by the other stakeholders.