Jakarta, Feb. 2 -- Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Arifin Tasrif has affirmed that the government is still targeting to increase the share of new and renewable energy in the energy mix to 23 percent by 2025.

"The target still continues," he said at his ministry's office in Jakarta on Friday.

Tasrif made the statement in response to the National Energy Council's (DEN) plan to revise the target for new and renewable energy share to 17-19 percent by 2025 from 23 percent by updating the National Energy Policy.

The DEN is preparing to update Government Regulation Number 79 of 2014 on the National Energy Policy, which will be adjusted to strategic environmental changes, in accordance with the commitment on climate change, and accommoda...