Open AccessDAMPAK LINGKUNGAN DAN SOSIAL DARI PENGEMBANGAN CBM DI INDONESIA
Author(s) -
Hartiniati Hartiniati
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jurnal teknologi lingkungan/jurnal teknologi lingkungan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2548-6101
pISSN - 1411-318X
DOI - 10.29122/jtl.v12i2.1252
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , business , environmental protection , development plan , coal , plan (archaeology) , natural resource economics , environmental impact assessment , environmental planning , engineering , geography , political science , economics , civil engineering , waste management , archaeology , philosophy , linguistics , law
Indonesia has one of the largest Coal Bed Methane (CBM) reserves in the world with a potential 453 trillion cubic feet (“Tcf”), more than double the country’s natural gasreserves. The government, therefore, is planning to exploite its huge potential reserves and targetting to produce 1 billion standard cubic fee per day, or about 0.18 million barrelof oil equivalent, by 2025. Several new regulations have been passed, but non is related to protection to the environment as an impact of the development of CBM. If it is not well regulated and managed properly, the environmental impact will be enormous. This paper presents assessment results on the environmental and social impacts which likelywill be faced by Indonesia from improper development of CBM in Indonesia. Certainly, there will be very serious and unaviodable negative impacts to the environment withoutcareful plan and proper environmental regulation put in place prior to the development of CBM. The government will have to develop a specific regulation regarding CBMdevelopment in the near future before everything is too late.