Jakarta, Oct. 29 -- The Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning (ATR) Ministry has moved to prepare one million hectares of land to support Indonesia's plan to mandate gas stations to blend 10 percent ethanol into their fuel products.

Addressing the press in Jakarta on Wednesday, ATR Minister Nusron Wahid highlighted that his side had identified around 240 thousand hectares of land across 18 provinces nationwide with the potential to host ethanol plants.

"We are still working to expand the coverage to one million hectares," he added.

Earlier, on October 7, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Bahlil Lahadalia announced that President Prabowo Subianto had approved the plan to implement the 10-percent mandatory ethanol fuel blend (E10)...