Chinese solar panel manufacturer LONGi announced that it has launched a strategic project to establish a solar panel manufacturing facility in Indonesia with an annual capacity of 1.6 GW in partnership with a unit of Indonesian state-owned energy company Pertamina, which, in its own statement, cited the annual capacity as 1.4 GW, a significant boost to Indonesia's current solar panel production capacity of 1.6 GWp per year. The facility, located in Deltamas, West Java, will use LONGi's Hybrid Passivated Back Contact (HPBC) 2.0 technology, and the collaboration with Pertamina New & Renewable Energy aims to strengthen Indonesia's renewable energy supply chain while meeting growing demand for solar PV modules domestically and across Southeast Asia, aligning with Indonesia's target of 17.1 GW of new PV installations over the next decade.