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The future earth compromises so many social and energy
issues which will be happening in Indonesia. With highly subsidy and consumption, it has
been affecting the social and economic activities and energy becomes the major
concern in the future. Therefore, energy created from renewable resources must
be achieved in five years from now.
The most common sector used by people is in transportation
either in land, air and sea. The increasing of transporting people from one
place to another place has affected the environment and damaging the ecosystem.
It is caused by the residual product from burning the fossil in addition to
light up the engine on the vehicle. Consequently, the issue has increased into
preventing the environment from damage created by the carbon dioxide. In
Indonesia, with high number of vehicles and the needs of those in transporting
in every island caused mainly.
As a result, the needs of energy sustainability is not the
best solution. It must be solved in comprehensive system and can affect the
environment into a positive trend. But, actually the existence of carbon
dioxide or monoxide is the raw material for plants to start their natural
industry. They need that for producing the oxygen and maintaining their own
energy. Thus, this issue becomes more complex and it towards to the increasing
of temperature and causes the global warming. Now, we have the comprehensive
issue which are global warming.
Many studies suggested in addition to prevent the
environmental impact caused by the fossil fuels, we must do research to find
the green fuels. It does not mean green literally, but it can be recycled,
reused and renewed. But, the pollution issues not about the recycling or
related to so It must be something which cannot produce by waste product. Then,
mixing energy in several applied machinery and engines could be the win-win
solution for many countries today including Indonesia which has hundreds of
millions of people.
Energy is something that people can utilized either for
electricity or not. Therefore, in general the energy usage must be in the
dimension of easy to afford and to access, and also the availability and
accessibility can be felt by many Indonesian including who live in the
outermost of the country. However, the participation of government in
preserving the energy is low. From the study conducted by *Erahman et al. in
measuring the index of energy security (ESI) from 2008 to 2013 indicated that
the government is not always included in energy security assessment except for
oil and gas.
This phenomenon has shown us about the implementing
renewable energy in Indonesia is still low. The national electrical company (PT
PLN) is only focused for accessing the fossil fuels reservations and coal. The development
of renewable energy such as solar cell, wind power, hydro power is not the main
topic of the company. And even more the ministry which in charge of researching
and developing the energy are limited only for technology and science, and
energy and mineral resources. Actually, the related ministry for instance the
ministry of finance, social welfare, economic affairs are responsible of the
renewable energy.
In conclusion, the participation of Indonesia governance in
accessing and providing the renewable energy including the electrical energy is
low. It is proven by the related ministries which has responsible to make it
real are less. Furthermore, in addition to prevent the use of fossils fuel must
be followed by developing the new power plant.
*Erahman QF, Purwanto WW, Subandriyo M, Hidayatno A. An
assessment of Indonesia's energy security index and comparison with seventy
countries.