Five big cities in Indonesia is ready to support the action of global electricity savings, “Earth Hour”, which will take place on March 31, 2012. Earth Hour is an initiative of the organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF), to anticipate the impact of climate change.
WWF Indonesia is committed to carry this campaign until the year 2014, to build public awareness – especially in big cities of Java-Bali, which has been the largest users of electricity that is 78 percent, and tend to be wasteful. Of these, approximately 23 percent of users are in the areas of Jakarta and Tangerang.
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Nyoman Iswarayoga, Director of Climate and Energy Program of WWF Indonesia.
Climate and Energy Program Director of WWF Indonesia, Nyoman Iswarayoga, say five major cities again expressed its readiness to support Earth Hour this year, ie, DKI Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Semarang and Bali. During one hour of electricity in five cities will be turned off simultaneously, starting at 20:30 to 21:30 local time.
“The appeal of action this year we really want to invite more people to support Earth Hour. This means that matter, know what his message, and want to do. At least starts from the first energy-efficient. Basically the message is it fixed it, saving energy at the household level. The energy-saving habits; that regular saving baseball in the home office must be used to save baseball, and vice versa. So we have to start in two places. If the house will be trickle-down effect (the effect of derivatives) is quite high, “said Nyoman Iswarayoga.
For the future, according to Nyoman, Earth Hour is expected to not merely turn off the power, but followed the action of other energy saving and greening activities such as planting trees and making a hole biopori.
Outside the central and local governments, some corporations are also ready to participate in Earth Hour program, in a variety of activities. Public Relations of PT Garuda Indonesia, Diah Wiratmi, told VOA said that some programs are in line with the concept of Earth Hour has been applied to the state-owned airline.
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Public Relations of PT Garuda Indonesia, Diah Wiratmi (front).
“Earth Hour was originally initiated by the WWF, but at the Garuda has become a routine we do every day. We do the carbon off set, the use of biofuels, but it’s still a feasibility study later in the future but we are led to it. Then plant a tree, and also uses the concept of eco-living to a new office development Garuda. We minimize the use of light, “said Diah Wiratmi.
Diah added, the remaining waste ticket printout is also recycled into the agenda. Since 2009, the company’s security environment also collects data from all units, how many watts of electricity which successfully reduced.
While Bodyshop international retail companies operating in the field of beauty, has long campaigned for ban on plastic and stryfoam. This was disclosed Values Bodyshop Manager in Indonesia, Angraini Rica.
Rika says, “Essentially we will try to contact all the mall where there Bodyshop to invite them join a good momentum for the community. Our practice, the community is quite excited about Earth Hour this program and we often ask them sharing (shared) experiences about electricity savings campaign, and ‘say no to stryfoam’. “

