The IJERT meeting is an annual cooperation forum between the governments of Indonesia and Japan. This meeting, which began in Jakarta on May 23, 2000, is aimed at increasing cooperation in the energy and mineral resource sector by means of information exchange, policies, promotions, investments, business meetings, and other forms of cooperation in research and development.
The Japanese delegation consisted of its Ambassador for Indonesia, Secretary General of APEF, Director General of ANRE (Agency of Natural Resources and Energy), Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry, NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization), and associated Japanese businesses in the sector, including INPEX, Mitsui & Co. Ltd., TECPO, J-Power, and Kyushu Electric Power Company, and several other key stakeholders.
The 10th IJERT meeting focuses on energy challenges for climate change and economic development with several key issues on:
- Promoting cooperation which benefits emission reduction by means of technology transfer, post Kyoto mechanisms, and energy conservation;
- Increasing oil and gas cooperation;
- Development of environmentally friendly coal and its economic strategies;
- Promoting and developing environmentally friendly powerplants in Indonesia.
Several items that is expected of the meeting include the increase of investment in the energy and mineral resource sector, mainly from Japan, increasing environmentally friendly technologies in the related sectors, and new partnerships between the two countries in the development of environmentally friendly energy in the sectors of oil and gas, power generation, renewable energy, and environmental management which concerns the energy and mineral resource sector.
