It is reported by nst.com.my.

President Joko Widodo said this and that the task will be shouldered by state-owned plantation firm PT Perkebunan Nusantara X (PTPN X).

Joko, or Jokowi, as he is affectionately known, revealed of the plan and that the government has so far acquired 180,000ha of land for the purpose.

He said the land for the cultivation process is planned to be spread nationwide and currently much of it are in West Java, Central Java and East Java because of the land fertility which is crucial to grow sugarcane.

«We will search outside of Java island because (acquiring) 700,000ha is not a small feat. But we will attempt our hardest to prepare it», — he said in a press statement aired by the Presidential Secretariat Office via Youtube recently.

Joko also hinted that the government would process the sugarcane into bioethanol 5 (E5) and bioethanol 10 (E10) products, in addition to pursuing the status of self-sufficiency in sugar.

Once sugar self-sufficiency is achieved, the processing of sugar cane into ethanol will be carried out by PT Energi Agro Nusantara (Enero) in Mojokerto, East Java, he said.

We will start later with E5 first, E5 goes first, E10, then E20," said Jokowi of various renewable energy products.