| Summary: | Towards the establishment of the ASEAN Community 2015, states of
Southeast Asia have many challenges include from energy. The high interdepence
on energy of outside the region such as oil, cause this region susceptible to the
geopolitical situation in the Middle East.
solve these To problems, ASEAN have established cooperation in the
energy sector, such as the Trans ASEAN Gas Pipeline. TAGP formed because of
the large natural gas reserves located in Southeast Asia that reach up to 227
trillion cubic feet and has great potential to replace the role of oil in industrial
activities in Southeast Asia. This cooperation has participated by the ten countries
of Southeast Asia, including Indonesia.
setting
Indonesia's participation in this cooperation is influenced by internal and
external in the country. The Internal setting are the failure of a government
program to increase the usage of natural gas in the country, the national economy
after the crisis of 1998, and a low level of gas consumption in the country. While
external factors are a change in the structure of the natural gas market in the
world, changes in natural gas policy in East Asia including Japan and the
emergence of ASEAN energy security policy as a condition of supporting the
establishment of an ASEAN Community by 2015.
many TAGP also offers a of benefits for Indonesia such as support
programs to reduce the usage of oil, facilitate the delivery of gas to foreign
countries, improving energy supply security support such as electricity, increasing
national income, reducing the effects of environmental change, and easing the
national gas project financing. Finally, in 2002 Indonesia decide to cooperation in
the TAGP.
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