Chairman of the Green Partners Foundation Board of Trustees, founder of Clean Indonesia Channel, Dicky Edwin Hindarto, who is also an expert on energy efficiency and carbon markets, said the new normal policy will shift the focus of energy use to household activities. He considered that there was a tendency to use emergi to be more wasteful.
“The use of energy for offices, schools, roads and industry is now moving to households so that there is a tendency for energy use to be more wasteful,” he told Antara in Jakarta, Saturday (6/6).
He added that in various countries there has been a drastic reduction in energy consumption due to lockdowns and restrictions on economic activity. World oil demand could be reduced by 9 percent, as back in 2012 due to reduced fuel consumption for transportation and industry.
Meanwhile, demand for coal is projected to fall by 8 percent due to reduced demand for electricity. “Demand for gas is also projected to fall deeper after the first quarter of 2020,” he explained.
Likewise, the demand for nuclear energy will decline due to the decline in electricity demand. However, the demand for renewable energy is projected to increase due to its reliability in terms of sustainable supply.
According to Dicky, so far many campaigns to save energy have been carried out by the government and the private sector and NGOs. Most of these communication activities before the Covid-19 pandemic were carried out without a good and sustainable communication strategy.
Meanwhile, during a pandemic there was very little energy-saving campaign activity. Meanwhile, the founder of the Center for Public Relations, Outreach and Communication (CPROCOM) Emilia Bassar, on the same occasion at the discussion, said that the Covid-19 pandemic presents new challenges for many parties and sectors in dealing with climate change in Indonesia.
“We, especially CPROCOM, continue to voice transformational communication to mobilize all elements of society to act to protect natural conditions in the new normal era, which is better than before the Covid-19 outbreak,” Emilia said.
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