# Prabowo says Indonesia will go ahead with a B50 biodiesel blend this year

Date: 2026

## The fact

On 30 March 2026, during a visit to Japan, President Prabowo said Indonesia would go ahead this year with B50, raising the palm-oil biodiesel blend from 40 to 50 percent, after an earlier 2026 plan had been scrapped on technical and funding concerns. Reuters recorded the business-forum remarks. Deforestation-and-subsidy remainder is named, not converted into a second copy of this act.

## Context

Energy self-sufficiency pledges sat as parent. Neighbouring meals and IKN competed for fiscal room. He did not sit as every refinery.

Danantara energy projects are a neighbour. Defence budget is a neighbour fiscal file.

The President of Indonesia heads the national executive, appoints Cabinet, and is commander-in-chief of the TNI. A former Defense Minister and former Kopassus commander does not write a Komnas HAM report, a Constitutional Court age-rule, or a Chinese SOE nickel smelter by himself. A Komnas HAM finding is not a criminal verdict unless a court so holds. A campaign pledge is not a gazette.

## Evidence and sources

Ministry of State Secretariat of Indonesia carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is energy security and [fossil-fuel dependence](/drivers/fossil-fuel-dependence): a completed B50 go-ahead aimed at cutting diesel imports.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 30 March 2026 presidential B50 go-ahead, independently reported.

Not established: that diesel imports uniquely ended that Monday, or a unique later forest-loss coefficient from the blend.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Energy ministry and Pertamina implement. Palm growers supply. Prior B40 sat as parent.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Prabowo says Indonesia will go ahead with a B50 biodiesel blend this year, not a later speech about Prabowo says Indonesia will go ahead with a B50 biodiesel blend this year.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Prabowo says Indonesia will go ahead with a B50 biodiesel blend this year on 2026-03-30 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of State Secretariat of Indonesia communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Prabowo says Indonesia will go ahead with a B50 biodiesel blend this year into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He ordered the go-ahead. Energy ministry and Pertamina implement. Palm growers supply. Prior B40 sat as parent. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Prabowo Subianto: https://factrail.ai/people/prabowo-subianto

## Drivers

- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security
- Fossil-Fuel Dependence: https://factrail.ai/drivers/fossil-fuel-dependence
- Fossil-fuel subsidies: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-fossil-fuel-subsidies

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/indonesia-go-ahead-with-b50-biodiesel-mix-this-year-president-says-2026-03-30/
- https://www.setneg.go.id/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/id-prabowo-b50-energy-2026