From the community and back to the community. Isra Amin Ali has experience working and studying together with the community through empowerment programs in Maluku Province for about 10 years under the flag of local and international institutions such as the Bina Swadaya Foundation, UNIDO, Mercy Corps Indonesia and USAID.
Rifay Toisutta has more than 12 years experience in Administration, Logistics and Procurement. He started working as a laborer in the distribution of packages for refugees with ACF after the riots in Maluku in 2000. Rifay then worked as a packager and was placed in a warehouse with + 50 workers whose daily work prepared food items to be distributed in various refugee shelters scattered in various regions in Maluku. For his achievement, Rifay was appointed as a head packager and later worked as a counter to the ACF organization in Ambon until mid 2001.
NZMATES is here to support the development of a vibrant renewable energy sector in Maluku.
NZMATES has been working to accelerate renewable energy uptake in Maluku since 2018. Part of NZMATES assistance is conducting technical and socio-economic assessments for numerous solar PV mini-grids. From the assessment, NZMATES developed recommendations according to project phase, i.e.: scoping, planning, installation, operation and decommissioning.
As part of its efforts to encourage greater participation of women in Maluku’s renewable energy sector, NZMATES has conducted its first Women in Energy Initiative, held in June and culminating in a public webinar on July 15, 2021.
The “Pūngao Pattimura Mini-grid Training Lab” is now fully installed at the Engineering Faculty of Pattimura University and the system has received its commissioning certificate.
The Programme Steering Group (PSG), made up of New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT, represented by the New Zealand Embassy in Jakarta), along with PLN, EBTKE, and NZMATES as the Secretariat, recently held its fourth meeting on May 5.
NZMATES presented the programme’s progress so far, key achievements, and work plan until October 2021. PSG members had the opportunity to discuss these updates and priorities, and in particular highlighted the importance of fund-matching activities and O&M needs for solar power plants in Maluku.
This report corresponds to the third year of the NZMATES programme, from April 2020 to March 2021.
This period was a challenging one due to the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic which limited NZMATES' ability conducting activities involving field travel, meetings and training. While on-the-ground implementation of projects was hindered, NZMATES together with our partners nevertheless managed to make important progress towards the programme outcomes.
The 9th Indo EBTKE ConEx 2020, organized by the Indonesian Renewable Energy Society (METI) and fully supported by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, was recently held virtually due to the pandemic.
Two NZMATES team members, Deputy Programme Manager Safitri Yanti Baharuddin and Renewable Energy Technical Specialist Kurnia Setiawan, were invited as speakers in two separate sessions.
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