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JAKARTA — As Indonesia positions itself to become a key global hub for electric vehicle batteries, it''s also putting people and the environment at harm through the coal
AI Customer ServiceIndonesia is one of the largest recycler of Lead Acid Battery (LAB) in Asia suffering for lead contamination which is classified as one of the top poisonous heavy metal pollutant.
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According to Padilah, these operations are constrained by outdated regulations that classify battery waste simply as waste, rather than as a resource. This classification complicates transportation and increases costs, particularly in an archipelagic country like Indonesia. “The policies are outdated,” Padhilah says.
Home to 25% of the world’s nickel resources, Indonesia also has rich resources of cobalt and copper, other essential minerals for battery production. Based on its assets, the country is developing its own EV industry and has plans to become a global EV battery production hub.
Meanwhile, 75% of the EVs sold in Indonesia in 2023 used LFP batteries, despite being less profitable to recycle. Padhilah thinks Indonesia should consider importing dead batteries to increase its volume of recyclable materials, which he argues would turn waste into a valuable resource.
“For SLA batteries, the recycling ecosystem in Indonesia is pretty much established,” says Indra Perdana, who leads a battery waste research team at Gadjah Mada University in Java. “Even Astra [a major vehicle distributor] already has a dedicated unit to recycle lead acid batteries.”
In past decade, Indonesia’s nickel industry has boomed and investments have poured in. One of the catalysts of this growth was the development in the early 2000s of a lithium-ion battery that uses NMC, a compound made of lithium, nickel, manganese, and cobalt, in its positive electrode, or cathode.
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