Overview on

Indonesia Sugar refining present and future

By
Subhendu Pobi
Wilmar International
Indonesia
Contents :

 Country data -Population,

Population, GDP, growth rate etc.
 Refined sugar production, consumption pattern
 Policies for sugar
 Sugar grades and specification – Quality
 Technologies and efficiencies
 Future!
Country data:

• Where is Indonesia with respect to global perspective?

– Population
– Population growth rate
– GDP growth rate
– Sugar production
– Sugar consumption
– Sugar consumption per capita
– Import
Population :

Population growth rate% Population growth

GDP : 1.075 B.US$, 1.23% of 87.5 T.US$

Yearly GDP(M.US$) - Indonesia

GDP growth rate- Indonesia Top 20 GDP current prices(billion US$)-2017

Sugar Consumption:

World sugar consumption

Per capita sugar consumption(kg/Yr.)

Sugar Production(Raw import and refined production):
Refineries and their capacity, locations:
Sugar Policies of
Govt. of Indonesia
Govt. of Indonesia: Sugar policies:

GOI sugar policy classification:

– Plantation white for home consumption
– Raw sugar for domestic sugar refining
– Refined sugar for local food and beverage industries

Indonesian regulation prohibits the distribution of refined sugar produced from imported raw
sugar to retail markets for direct human consumption
Govt. of Indonesia: Sugar policies:
• President Mr. Jokowi Widodo goal: self-sufficiency
sufficiency in rice, corn, soybean and sugar production,
in his presidency
• accelerate the development of sugar cane for industrial needs
• offering incentives for those who want to build new cane sugar factories integrated with refinery
• delivering raw materials that sugar cane plantations cannot provide and thus ensure that
machinery is used optimally
Sugar Quality
Sugar Grades:
• Raw Sugar (Gula mentah: SNI 3140.1:2008)
• Plantation white (Gula Kristal putih: SNI 3140.3:2010)
3140.3:2010
• Refined Sugar (Gula Kristal rafinasi:: SNI 3140.2:2011)
 Sugar Refining
Technology in Indonesia
 Technology and support systems:

• Affination and melting • Utility

• Clarification • Coal fired boiler
• Carbonatation • Gas fired boiler
• Phosphofloatation • Turbine
• Decolorization • Water treatment plant
• Evaporation • Process water
• Crystallization • Environment
• Refinery • Solid waste disposal
• Recovery • Waste water treatment
• Sugar drying and cooling • Stack emission
• Packaging
Technologies Process :
Raw Sugar handling Affination
Technologies Process :
Carbonatation Filtration
Technologies Process :
IER column Evaporation
Technologies Process :
Crystallization Centrifugation
Technologies Process :
Sugar drying & cooling Packaging
Technologies and efficiency ranges:
• Affination: 40- 50% colour removal
• Carbonatation: 45-55%
• Phosphofloatation: 34-42%
• IER: 65-75%
• Steam: 0.95-1.2 Ton steam/TRS
• Yield : 94.5-96.5%
• Power: 60-80 KWH/TRS
Future!
Future questions!

• Uncertainties!
– Sweetener (Stevia, sweet corn syrup etc)
etc policies
– Post election(2019) Policies
– Attention for potential efficiency improvements
– Sales mechanism

If sweetener is not incorporated in framing overall industrial market with sugar,

sugar refineries may experience substantial threat!
threat
Thank you for attention!