Bakrie Encourages Climate Change Issue to Enter Education Sector

Jakarta – President Director and CEO of Bakrie & Brothers (BNBR), Anindya Bakrie recognizes the climate crisis become crucial issue where the pollutiom and climate change threats are challenges in various countries.

This is also expressed by Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), while gave a speech at the Opening of the XIII Mahasabha National Congress of the Indonesian Hindu Dharma Student Union (KMHDI) 2023, in Palu.

"I agree with President @jokowi's call that a crucial issue of the 21st century is the climate crisis where the threats of pollution and climate change have become challenges across countries," Bakrie wrote in a post on his official Instagram account @anindyabakrie, on Thursday.

According to Bakrie, Indonesia must soon innovate not only in industry but also in education. Therefore, the education world needs to adapt, as well as young people today to remain relevant to the current issues.

"As a transformative industrialist on the field of sustainability, I see in the long term, solutions to this problem must go within education," he remarked.

"There must be a science discipline that's mixed with cross-disciplinary generation, among others, green financing, low carbon economic development, and green engineering," he added.

Bakrie also said: "We must prepare young talents with specific capacities to solve climate change problems well, which will in the future create in-demand green jobs worldwide,"

He believes that Indonesia can be a leader in solving the climate problem, "Our country has a tremendous amount of natural riches, both underground, above, and the biodiversity around us,"

Moreover, soon the Capital of Indonesia will be moved to IKN Nusantara which will be an includive green and sustainable city icon, he added.

As a Stanford alum, he also see Stanford has opened a new Faculty after 75 years, the Stanford School of Sustainability Doerr, which focuses on creating competent talent for climate change solutions.

"Perhaps, there is a vast and long-term research potential we can create between @Stanford and associated institutions in Indonesia on various issues important for the low carbon transition in Indonesia to begin with," he stated.

"From the industrial sector, we fully support the government to make sustainability education program a success in Indonesia," Bakrie concluded.