The founding of the Indonesian Renewable Energy Society (IRES) was initiated by a group of intellectuals, government officials, private companies and professionals on May 5th, 1999, that on the one hand, concern with the unabated use of fossil energy which is considered to be the main cause of the current global environmental pollution and the accelerated depletion of the conventional energy resources, whilst, on the other hand, realize that Indonesia is endowed with abundant but relatively not much tapped renewable energy resource, which could be utilized sustainably to meet the energy need of the current and future generation.METI is a forum for scientists, educators, regulators, business developers and organizations, NGO's, associations of renewable energy sector, and other stakeholders to discuss and exchange views on strategic and pragmatic issues of using Renewable Energy to serve the nation's interest and objectives to be less dependence on fossil energy and prevent the environment from deteriorating as a result of the continuous and unabated use of fossil energy.METI is committed to contribute to the global efforts in combating the negative impact of the global climate change, by producing ideas and solutions toward the global concerns, particularly through advocating and promoting the use of renewable energies.OUR VISIONMETI envisages becoming effective Forum where continuous efforts are taken toward developing and using Renewable Energy to sustainably meet the national energy need and toward contributing to the global efforts in battling the impact of the global climate change.METI is to play an active and effective role in advocating, promoting and socializing the benefits of Renewable Energy Encompassing the development and applications of relevant technology, development of socio-economic concept, and human resource cappacity building which all support the utilization of Renewable.