Jakarta, Feb. 26 -- Indonesia's Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology has reaffirmed its commitment to embracing and empowering universities and industrial actors in developing waste-to-energy (WtE) power plants.

Higher Education Minister Brian Yuliarto conveyed this stance during a meeting with representatives from foreign universities, the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), and PT Rekayasa Industri, which is a state-run engineering company, in Jakarta on Tuesday (Feb. 24).

"It is important for us to design WtE projects based on clear and measurable calculations in terms of capacity, costs, and sustainability," he noted in a statement issued on Thursday.

Yuliarto stressed the need to devise a scientific approach gr...