By Aretha Aprilia
The Jakarta Globe-May 3

A majority of people would agree that the need for energy security while reducing the impacts of climate change has never been greater. Indonesia currently is the world’s fifth largest producer and the second-largest exporter of coal; and by 2050 fossil fuels will still provide well over half the primary energy supply (oil of less than 20 percent, coal 25 percent and gas 24 percent ‒ according to the country’s commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
UNFCCC in 2016). So, while security can be maintained, the impact on climate and subsequently people’s lives remains a question.
The times for dirty oil and gas, and coal industries, have passed. Most research and academic institutions agreed that we need to move to cleaner sources of energy. The days of simply pulling cheap energy from the ground have gone, and as with all extractive industries, we are going to run out of fossil fuel eventually. Global peak oil is estimated to occur after 2030, although the allegory is that peak oil is like death ‒ it will surely happen, no one can predict exactly when. This lack of clarity is not however an excuse to do nothing.
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First published in: The Jakarta Globe