Right from the start, I have much doubt that Timnas BBN (and president SBY) will succeed in making good their promises, that poverty and unemployment will be reduced by executing national biofuel program. Am now much convinced by my own calculation that, yes, Keppres 10/2006 will be a lame program. Instead of reducing poverty, Keppres 10/2006 wil make the poor much poorer.

One big mistake had been made by the Timnas (and president SBY as well), namely, the economic side. Both of them did not bother to make clear and exact calculation as to how the poor will be made better off. It seems to me, president SBY has chosen to have deaf ear, instead of seeking second opinion to check Timnas BBN's all to-good-to-be-true claims.

BPPT and Kemenristek, normally serve as president's think tank, unfortunately, do not perform as they should in the national biofuel programs. LIPI is better, I think, by steer clear of the "unscientific" program altogether. 

Trophaja a.k.a. Wimar

I believed that all the persons who involved in this project, they just wanna take an advantages for their self....it means all of them are SELFISH 

Correct. That's why they suddenly become stupid persons, although many of them are PhD.

racemase:

I believed that all the persons who involved in this project, they just wanna take an advantages for their self....it means all of them are SELFISH 

It is now a history. The Indonesian biofuel program as proposed by the National Team on Biofuel a.k.a. Timnas BBN, is dead. Without producing anything this team so "heroically" promised in 2005-2006. In conclusion, my prediction in this forum, from as early as 2006, that the program will fail, is correct.

Therefore, it'll be fun now to read all those postings which completely disagree with my opinion in that the Indonesian biofuel program will (in due time)  fail. I may not have the PhD degrees possessed by some of Timnas BBN members. But I certainly have ample time to use my battery-operated calculator, to made the calculation and made the exact prediction that the program will fail.

Those who are too eager in fostering jatropha curcass as a multipotent remedies of many problems (fuel shortage, poverty alleviation, environmental improvement etc), please  think again, carefully. Are you willing to walk the similar failure as we in Indonesia?