Energy To Food Is A Challenge For The New President Of The Republic Of Indonesia

JAKARTA - The alumni community of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) named Ganesha Breeding Club (B-Club) highlighted various economic issues that will be Indonesia's economic challenge for Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka as president and vice president for the 2024 period. 2029.

"The challenge of realizing energy sovereignty, where as a nation, we need to carefully prepare the energy transition policy from dependence on fossil fuels," said B-Club Coordinator Lutfi Alkatiri in a statement in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Friday, May 17.

According to him, the next government must be able to prepare the transition from fossil fuels to new and renewable energy sources, as well as to conserve energy as part of economic challenges.

In addition to challenges in the form of energy sovereignty, Lutfi also highlighted the challenges of realizing food sovereignty.

Not only able to maintain nutritious food availability for its people, Lutfi said that the state must also be able to produce food resources independently amid the threat of a global crisis.

A number of other challenges released by B-Club are Indonesia's economic challenges for the next government, namely the challenge of realizing a new and green economy; job creation, especially for the younger generation; development of digitalization-based technology and automation in all fields.

Furthermore, there are also challenges in accelerating development to immediately seize demographic bonus opportunities and get out of the trap of middle-income countries; development financing challenges, especially to finance new priority programs and strategic programs that must be continued.

Finally, global geopolitical challenges that are unstable and unconverging have an impact on the economic stability of medium countries, such as Indonesia, such as currency issues, inflation, increasing imports, and others.

"The ITB alumni, especially those who are young, will certainly be part of the demographic bonus, facing economic-political challenges which will certainly be much different when we are just independent," said Lutfi.

He made this statement in a discussion entitled 'Pick up the 2045 National Awakening: Indonesia's New Leadership Economy Direction' in Jakarta, Thursday night (16/5).

Responding to this, Chairman of the Expert Council of the Advanced Indonesia Coalition Burhanuddin Abdullah said Prabowo would consistently carry out his ideas.

"He (Prabowo) has always been working on what he said from the start until now," said Burhanudin.