BAYU MATAHARI INDONESIA

Book 1 :Indonesia Reform, What's The Matter?             Bahasa



Mohamad Musman is an activist in the field of energy, electricity technology, and renewable energy, especially in the field of power generation, Mohamad Musman is an electrical engineer alumnus Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). He observed the negative economy impact of energy subsidies in Indonesia, especially in the reform era (1998-next). In 2016, Mohamad Musman has individually submitted a judicial review of law articles on energy subsidies which are "unconstitutional for the sake of national economic resilience", submitted to the Indonesian Constitutional Court (MKRI) as the guardian of the Constitution.

There are 3 laws are submitted to be tested (the Electricity Law, the Energy Law and the State Budget Law on articles related to energy and electricity subsidies) with the same topic of testing that the energy and electricity subsidies articles that have spent more than IDR 2700 trillion using foreign debt, this is "unconstitutional, if implemented by political government". Constitutionally, the state should establish an independent Energy Commission to manage the budget for improving energy economy efficiency related transportation and infrastructure in electricity, road transport and railways.

The challenges of future world are energy justice. The book examined energy outlook related political power. What's the matter with Indonesia's reform? It seems that students are only “puppets”, used for power struggles that take the victims of the innocent people in 1998 and earlier in 1966.  Indonesia had struggled independence war after 50 years under Dutch colony. It is evidenced that amount of Indonesia foreign debt of Rp.5,500 trillion had been spent 60% for their energy subsidies around Rp.2,700 trillion from 1998-2021 and next.  Have the debt created social justice for all of nusantara provinces or it shows only high cost political elite power struggle in Jakarta? 

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