As one of the countries most affected by the climate crisis, Indonesia has not demonstrated sufficiently ambitious mitigation steps. This can be seen from the still dominance of fossil energy in the national energy supply, which reaches 86.92%. New energy development is also still far from ideal, with realization only 13% of the target of 23% by 2025.
In fact, in the 2016 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) document, Indonesia is committed to reducing emissions by 834 million tonnes of CO2e by 2030 with an energy sector contribution of up to 314 million tonnes of CO2e or 37.6%. This means that the Indonesian government must accelerate the development of renewable energy, which is the most effective way to cut emissions and a solution to air pollution and extreme weather disasters that continue to haunt the people of this country.
We realize that we cannot move alone to encourage change in Indonesia. The mass media has an important role in urging the Indonesian Government to take measurable and clear steps to transition to renewable energy, so that a more severe climate crisis can be prevented so that society is not continuously plagued by disasters.
For this reason, CERAH is holding the '2024 CERAH Journalism Competition' with the main theme 'Energy Transition for Climate Justice in Indonesia'.
Themes of journalistic works:
1. Benefits of early retirement from coal power plants.
2. Benefits of Indonesia switching to renewable energy.
3. Encourage financing for energy decarbonization and climate action.
4. Indonesia's climate commitment in the second NDC document.
5. The economic impact of the climate crisis.
6. Accelerating energy transition to deal with extreme weather
Prizes for each online, print and television category:
First place IDR 7,000,000
Second place IDR 5,000,000
3rd place IDR 3,000,000
Competition period: 5 August to 6 October.
Winner announcement: October 27, 2024.
Requirements for participants in the '2024 CERAH Journalism Competition':
1. Participants are journalists in online, print and television media.
2. Journalistic works registered to take part in this competition must be published in print/electronic media on 5 August-6 October 2024.
3. Registered journalistic works have never won other journalistic competitions.
4. Each journalist may submit a maximum of two journalistic works to be included in this competition.
5. Journalists who take part in this competition can use CERAH's report, which can be accessed via sunny.or.id, as a reference.
6. Journalists who take part in this competition are required to make a statement that the journalistic work submitted is not plagiarized (journalistic work authenticity sheet form).
7. Registered journalistic works must comply with social norms and not contain elements of violence, pornography, insults or harassment of SARA.
8. The jury's decision cannot be contested. The jury has the right to reject any submitted work that is deemed not to meet the requirements. The jury has the right to withdraw the award given if the award-winning work is proven to be plagiarized and not original.
Delivery of journalistic work:
1. Fill out the registration form via https://bit.ly/KompetisiCerah
2. Include a link containing the journalistic work, a copy of the valid Press Card and KTP, as well as a statement sheet stating the authenticity of the work in the registration form.
3. Submission of journalistic work no later than October 6 2024 until 23.59 WIB.
