Jakarta, Feb 21 (Xinhua) Indonesia will press ahead with plan to build its first nuclear power plant in 2010, although it has yet to decide technological specifications and safety standards, local press reported Wednesday.

The nuclear power plant is due to be built at Mt. Muria in Central Java and a senior official familiar with the project said the government was determined to stick to the original schedule, which envisages the project being put out to tender in 2008, construction starting in 2010 and the plant coming on stream in 2017, reported English daily The Jakarta Post.

'We are currently sounding out the necessary technology from other countries, such as Japan, the US, France and Germany, so as to make sure that we get the safest,' said Natio Lasman, chairman of the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (Bapeten).

Lasman said that Bapeten would soon carry out a comparative study on safety standards and procedures in other countries. He said the long-awaited regulations on the licensing regime for nuclear reactors were approved last December, which paved the way for decisions on the technical aspects to be made in the near future.

Under its blueprint for the development of nuclear energy, the government is targeting the bringing on stream of a nuclear plant with an initial capacity of 4,000 megawatts, accounting for about two percent of total national energy demand, by 2017.

The country's first nuclear power plant is expected to meet four percent of total power demand in Java, Madura and Bali, which is expected to reach 175 terawatt hours (TWh) by 2015.