President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) held a meeting with some 150 power plant investors at the State Palace on Tuesday to discuss efforts to accelerate the development of projects to generate 35 thousand megawatts (MW) electricity.

“In todays meeting, I want to emphasize again that the power projects to generate 35 thousand MW of electricity are needed. It is not a small figure, and therefore, I always closely monitor the developments in the projects. I always summon the president director of the state-owned electricity firm (PLN) and the relevant minister,” the president stated while addressing the investors at the State Palace in Jakarta on Tuesday.