Indonesia: Toward Universal Access to Clean Cooking

July 23, 2013 · 0 comments

Indonesia: Toward Universal Access to Clean Cooking, 2013.

World Bank.

Household selection of cooking fuels is generally determined by a fuel’s affordability, availability, accessibility, and cultural acceptability. In the case of Indonesia, the 2006 reductionin the availability of kerosene supply resulted in manyhouseholds—particularly those in rural areas for whom LPG was too expensive or inaccessible—switching to firewood. In addition, many rural households have beenunwilling to pay for LPG, even at the subsidized price,given that they can freely collect fuelwood from the local environment at little or no cost, except for the time spentcollecting it. Furthermore, many households rely on a mix of cooking fuels, especially when alternative fuels are available at an affordable price. For example, rural households that cannot access LPG regularly may use kerosene to supplement their firewood use.

The CSI stocktaking survey shows that the commercial marketfor biomass stoves is quite limited. Indeed, in many ruraland more remote areas, there are no existing markets forbiomass cookstoves. Annual stove production is far lessthan the number of households using biomass stoves,suggesting that a significant number of households donot buy stoves available in the market. Many make their own rudimentary stoves (e.g., three-stone) and have more than one. Primary stoves, commonly made of mud,cement, or stone, are quite energy-inefficient and emit significant amounts of toxic smoke.

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