Habibie enjoys the president's support and is regarded as one of the most powerful ministers in Indonesia. Habibie suffers from megalomania. Nuclear energy is only one of his large-scale projects. His ministry has developed a technology program with priorities for 11 advanced techniques. Given the current situation in Indonesia, solar technology and geothermal technology should do well.
Cheaper technologies are, however, lacking in the technology development program.
The advanced technology program has clearly been based on a certain military strategic perspective, which reserves a role for Indonesia as a fully independent and autarkic state. And obviously, the influence of the nuclear lobby adds another impulse. In the background, nationalistic ideology plays an important role. In the search for national identity, the colonial past and its associated domination are attributed to a superior state of technological development of our past conquerors. Obtaining superior technology will finally put the colonial era to rest, in the past.