Food Security Program

The success of Rumah Energi’s implementation of domestic biogas has encouraged us to expand and scale up its operations. This scale up involves an innovative business model by commercializing the residue produced by biogas which is known as bio slurry to further maximize biogas contribution to energy-food value chain and address the increasing cost of biodigesters. The new business model would require Rumah Energito offtake the bio slurry produced from its installed biodigesters at a certain price. By adding economic value to the bioslurry and offtake guarantee by Rumah Energi existing biogas users will be incentivized to maintain their digesters and for potential users to be incentivized in installing digesters.

In 2022, Rumah Energi was awarded as one of WE4F S/SEA’s innovators in which the fund was then channelled to Rumah Energi’s newly established business unit, namely PT Pupuk Suburkan Negeri (PSN) for piloting 111 demoplots for food-crops in East Java. The results from the demoplots were an average increase of production of 20%. Throughout the project to date, one of the lessons learned is that interests and demands came from institutional buyers such plantation companies and mining companies. The latter needed significant supply of bioslurry for post mining reclamation.

• 111 bio-slurry demo-plot
• 9672 beneficiaries  
• 2459 household 
• Impact to SDG 1, 2, 5, 8, 13