Nuclear power has been on and off the national agenda since the early days of Suharto but the State Minister of Research and Technology still sees it as a safe, clean form of energy and he has not given up on the idea of it becoming a reality.
The lack of understanding about nuclear power was behind protests by thousands of people in 2007 — led by the former president Abdurrahman Wahid, also known as Gus Dur — when his ministry wanted to promote the idea of building a nuclear plant in Jepara, Central Java.
Most Indonesians were overly negative about nuclear power because of a fear of dangerous radiation leaks, and the worry of building plants in such an earthquake and volcano prone country.
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