On May 2018, I applied for a short course program from the Australia Awards in the field of Renewable Energy Technologies and Policy. The program is a fully funded program from the Australian Government to improve the renewable energy technologies and policy implementation in Indonesia. This program is quite new and is the first program in this field. For further information about short courses that are held by the Australia Awards, you can check on the
Australia Awards Website. O ya, like what I said before, the program is fully funded, therefore all the course fees, travel, accommodation and daily allowance will be provided by the Australia Awards Indonesia, such a perfect opportunity right ^_^.
Shortly, I was accepted as 1 of the 28 participants from all over Indonesia. The participants are coming from many different backgrounds including the policymakers, governmental officers, NGO activists, educators, entrepreneurs, and energy practitioners whether in the technical or management positions. Actually, I am really grateful for the opportunity to join this program, because I was accepted ad 1 of 28 from all over 2000 applications (the committee mentioned to us). The program is delivered in three parts, which are:
It was held in Makassar on 7-9 May 2018. The program was mostly the introduction, of course, discussion about renewable energy technologies and policy in Australia and Indonesia, pre-course test, project initialization, and the preparation for departure to Australia. There are some photos of the 3 days course in Makassar as follows.
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| Figure 1. Visit to the Jeneponto regent's office |
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| Figure 2. Visit to Tolo wind farm project site in Jeneponto |
For the industrial visit, we visited the PLTB Tolo (Tolo Wind Farm) project site in the Jeneponto Regency. It is planned to be able to produce 72 MW electricity in Sulawesi. Currently, the project is still ongoing and hopefully can be finished soon and the power plant can operate soon. In this pre-course, the participants also started to develop the project awards that can be developed during the program in the participant's every working area or community.
- The short course in Australia
Then after that, the short course awards in Australia was held on 6-9 August 2019. The director of the program is
Griffith University in Australia. Actually the day I write this blog is my first day on the campus and my third day in Australia. I am really excited about Australia, my personal admiration of how beautiful and sophisticated this country is (for sure as someone from the middle-income country, Australia as a developed country is so awesome for me). Besides that, my first day in the Griffith University is also really interesting. When I entered the campus this morning, I was so amazed by how green the campus is, and how the campus is so friendly to human especially people with disabilities. But anyway, today I'll try to wrap my activities in Brisbane for 6 August 2018 and will be followed by the next-next days. Check it out ya.
- Day 1 ( 6 August 2018)
We started with an Opening Ceremony by the Griffith University and then continued by the Networking Morning Tea. The interesting part of the opening ceremony is that an indigenous person named Jared showed us a very beautiful culture and performance, so wonderful. He could imitate the sound of Australian Animals used a wood traditional tools called Didgeridoo and played a very beautiful dance. Look at the picture, we can imagine how everybody was so enjoying his performance.
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| Figure 3. Jared and the traditional instrument of indigenous people in Australia |
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| Figure 4. Dancing imitated kangaroo and eagle |
After that participants need to update the Short Course Awards (SCA) project with Dr. Prasad Kaparaju. After that, we had a presentation about the "Options for renewable energy sources in Australia" by Dr. Sascha Stegen. Then we had a campus tour and accessed the Griffith University Library internet and resources. There are some pictures of today's activities as follows:
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| Figure 5. Welcoming speech |
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| Figure 6. Group photo |
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