President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has symbolically kicked off the mandatory use of B30 biodiesel – eight days ahead of Jan. 1, when the policy was initially scheduled to go into force.
B30 refers to a biodiesel blend containing 30 percent fuel produced from palm oil.
“We can say that this B30 policy can save us Rp 63 trillion (US$4.5 billion) in foreign exchange expenditure,” he told reporters and government officials at a gas station in Jakarta on Monday.
