Enjoying their Own Power

FOR decades, Batang Uru village in West Sulawesi province went dark as the night fell. There was no sign of support from the State Electricity Company (PLN). Fortunately, there was Linggi, Batang Uru village chief. With his experience of turbine usage from learning in the Turbine Foundation, he, using limited budget and making use of extra water supply from his village, began constructing a power plant in 1993. That same year, neon bulbs lit the

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