{"id":814,"date":"2011-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/press\/814\/mansinam-renewable-energy-initiative-the-energy-revolution-starts-here\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T19:39:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:39:58","slug":"mansinam-renewable-energy-initiative-the-energy-revolution-starts-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/story\/814\/mansinam-renewable-energy-initiative-the-energy-revolution-starts-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Mansinam Renewable Energy Initiative: The Energy Revolution starts here"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mansinam, in West Papua Province, Indonesia, is an island of immense religious and historical significance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\niconic monument in Mansinam Island, West Papua, Indonesia \u00a9 Greenpeace\/Shailendra Yashwant<\/em><\/p>\n

Located in the Gulf of Doreh, just south of Manokwari Regency, the island is the site where the first European Christian Missionaries\u00a0 landed in Papua in 1855 to preach Christianity to the island\u2019s indigenous people.\u00a0 Their arrival spurred the conversion of much of Papua to Christianity.<\/p>\n

Every year on February 5, Christian Papuans celebrate Gospel Landing Day to mark the arrival of the Bible in Papua by\u00a0 going on a pilgrimage to Mansinam Island.<\/p>\n

This year the celebrations are a little different \u2013 Papuans arrive at the church and the cross memorial which is now entirely powered by renewable energy.\u00a0 To mark Gospel Landing Day, Greenpeace has launched a pilot project promoting renewable energy in the island.<\/p>\n

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\nGreenpeace campaigner and volunteer install solar panels at an iconic monument in Mansinam Island, West Papua, Indonesia \u00a9Greenpeace\/Shailendra Yashwant<\/em><\/p>\n

The installation, a 1 kilowatt solar-wind hybrid energy system, will power the sound system, as well as the lighting in the church and in the island\u2019s iconic cross monument. With a renewable energy-based system, the church, the center of community life in Mansinam, will not have to rely on diesel or fossil fuels for energy, and instead will harness the sun and wind right there in their own island.<\/p>\n

The project, conceived as an initiative that is meant to spur similar projects and stimulate and advance sustainable development in Papua, is meant to showcase how renewable energy works for the benefit of communities.<\/p>\n

Greenpeace is putting forward a vision of green and clean development in the island.\u00a0 Only such a vision, once taken on collaboratively by the local and national governments, industry, and civil society, together with the local populace, can see Papua through toward equitable progress unlimited by dirty energy.<\/p>\n

Although Papua island abounds with natural resources, it is the poorest region in Indonesia.\u00a0 Only 30.65% of the villages in Papua are electrified, well below the 2011 government target of 65% electrification ratio for all regions in Indonesia.<\/p>\n

Papua currently faces a choice: to opt for sustainable and equitable progress powered by renewable energy or to be locked within a dirty fossil-fueled system which brings staggering gains only to a select few while imperiling the health and lives of the majority.<\/p>\n

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Greenpeace believes that with its current need to be electrified, its geographical condition and scattered communities, Papua is the perfect model for decentralized renewable energy grids that are ready to be harnessed today in order to power the future.<\/p>\n

The project is part of Greenpeace\u2019s call for an Energy Revolution in Indonesia.\u00a0 The Greenpeace Energy [R]evolution published by Greenpeace together with the Engineering Center of the University of Indonesia (UI) and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC),\u00a0 is a detailed, practical blueprint for cutting carbon emissions while achieving economic growth by replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy, decentralized smart girds and energy efficiency technologies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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