The Governments of Finland and Indonesia agreed in 1984 to carry out a cooperation project to investigate the feasibility using Indonesia peat resources for electric power generation in rural regions. The project was started in July 1985 by training the Indonesian project team in Finland for 8 weeks.
The feasibility study on the biomass-fired power plant in pontianak was originally included in the peat project, phase 1. Following discussions in May 1986 with the Directorate of coal, Finnida decided to finance the edditional power plant study for pontianak in Western Kalimantan in order to compare the plant's feasibility with the Palangkaraya cas…