JAKARTA, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia would be able to reduce the carbon emission by up to 60 percent by 2030 through orchestrated efforts, correct government's policy and international supports, a senior official of Indonesian agency tasked to deal with climate change said here on Thursday.

"Indonesia could potentially reduce emissions by up to 2.3 Giga ton (Gt) by 2030 through implementing over 150 reduction measures across the main emitting sectors in the country, with more than 80 percent of them in forestry, peat land and agriculture sectors," Agus Purnomo, the secretary of government-sanctioned Indonesian Council for Climate Change (DNPI) told a press conference here.

The emission target disclosure was conducted prior to the climate change summit scheduled to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Citing the carbon price in European market that reaches ten euro per ton, he said the cost that has to be spent by the government to reduce carbon emission to that figure could reach 23billion euros.

Agus said that Indonesia's carbon emissions are expected to grow by 2 percent annually reaching 2.8 Gt in 2020 and 3.6 Gt in 2030.

"In 2005, with 2.3 Gt emission, Indonesia was regarded one of the countries issued the largest emission in the world, the main sources of the rising emissions come from power, transportation," Agus said.

The head of the DNPI who also the state minister for environment affairs Rahmat Witoelar said that to reach the emission reduction targets in the future, the government needs to alter their policies in the power plant project, forestry, transportation, peat land management.

"The policy alteration must be aimed at securing the sustainability of national economy, adhere to fairness principle and the rules that had been outlined by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)," Rahmat said.

Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/27/content_11954036.htm