Children Storytelling Competition by Purnomo Yusgiantoro Center
Jakarta, 22 August 2020. To commemorate Heroes Day on 10 November 2020 this year, Purnomo Yusgiantoro Center held a Children Storytelling Competition with the theme of Indonesia’s Heroes. The activity was carried out online and the participants were divided into 2 age groups. The first group was for children aged 7-9 years and the second […]
PYC Webinar – The Ensight: Rethinking Energy-Climate Relations in Indonesia
Purnomo Yusgiantoro Center (PYC) conducted The Energy Insight (The Ensight) for the second time and it was live-streamed through the official PYC YouTube channel on October 24th, 2020. The theme of this event was “Rethinking Energy-Climate Relations in Indonesia.” This theme was selected to increase the public awareness of climate change issues in recent days […]
More Strategies for Solar PV Acceleration After Pandemic
Despite promising increase in rooftop solar PV adoption in the last few years, pandemic is expected to hit Indonesia’s solar PV development hard. Government of Indonesia needs to remap the current strategies to reaccelerate solar PV development after the pandemic. In the last five years, we had watched the increasing contribution of solar electricity in […]
Unlocking the Blue Energy Potential in Indonesia
By: Haryanto Research Assistant at Purnomo Yusgiantoro Center (PYC). Nowadays, renewables have been a topic of broad discussion. Renewables such as solar energy, bioenergy, geothermal, wind and hydro are commonly discussed in many forums. The use of renewables is closely associated with increasing energy security. Nevertheless, other renewables, such as energy from the ocean […]
Good News is a Bad News: Indonesia’s Electricity Subsidy
Indonesia’s Electricity Subsidy Electricity subsidy has been one of Indonesia’s government main issues for an extended period. Figure 1 shows the fluctuation of electricity subsidy taken from State Electricity Company (PT PLN) financial report between 1998 to August 2020. The significant increase was experienced in 2005 during the economic crisis as the government broaden the […]
Optimizing Geothermal Energy for Green Economy Recovery in Indonesia
The biggest challenge for developing countries after being severely struck by the COVID-19 pandemic is reviving the economy sector. Indonesia, as one of them, should learn from the 1997-1998 crisis that economic recovery will not happen in a single night. Therefore, Indonesia needs to consider a sustainable solution. Optimizing the available green energy sources, such […]
