Brazil aims for closer cooperatoin with Indonesia in biofuels

June 18, 2013 |

In Indonesia, Brazil and Indonesia said that among the areas they have hot-targeted for bil-laterl co-operaiton is the development of biofuels. Brazilian Deputy Foreign Minister Maria Edileuza Fontenele Reis, speaking with The Jakarta Post and Antara news agency at the sixth Foreign Ministers Meeting of the Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC) in Bali, said that “We are among pioneers in the production of both ethanol and biodiesel. Indonesia is interested in this because you cannot rely on oil production. You need alternative energy to reduce dependency on fossil fuels and to save the environment.” The two countries signed a biofuels MOU in 2008, but Reis noted, “Considering Brazil is a country with 200 million people and Indonesia with 240 million people, we are finding that there is much more we can do. We can work [together]  on the technological aspect, such as the transfer of technology,”

Category: Fuels

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