If I have to vote, I would probably vote PLN for the crappiest company in Indonesia (along with Bakrie Telecom and Lippo following it). Why? Because nowadays we often get those blackouts without any prior announcement. The reason? Well, that’s easy, they simply don’t have enough power to light up Jakarta from 00.00 back to 00.00. As a good electric bill payer, I found this disgusting, and before anyone yells back at me on how I should be concerned with our country’s energy crisis, I have my own reasons to justify that.

First of all, in a small scale, I pay for the electricity that I use, and oh do believe that I use electricity with great concern. I turn off things that I don’t use, unplugged things that I don’t use for months, upgraded the office monitors to LCDs, and the list goes on. And when I do use a lot of power out of the meter, I am perfectly aware of the costs that I have to bear each month. So, in a sense, I do pay for what I use, so I could care less if PLN is unable to provide that to my house’s power grid.

Second, where the heck is the industry on building power plants? How come from the day I stepped on the elementary grade, the number of power plants available in Indonesia is nowhere near plenty. Answer? Let’s just say, we don’t have to ask where the money went to.

Third, if the government is really that concern about the energy crisis, they should take approximate steps to develop greener energy. Take wind power for example, we have plenty of wind down here. If the government put some effort to install residential-grade turbines on every few blocks or so in the city, I’m sure some of that power consumption need could be taken care of. But no, we’re not going there, are we?

Fourth, is of course back to the fuel drama. We have lots of alternative energy sources out there, and yet, some power plants still rely on oil to run. This is just plain stupid.

FIfth, the idea of building a nuclear power plant. Well this just sucks monkey balls. If our country can’t even take care of simple matters such as garbage or traffic, I don’t see why we SHOULD build a nuclear power plant. I can envision the comeback of Chernobyl, or the second coming of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Without the bombs, of course. We won’t need them as it would probably explode on its own. Even developed countries are now moving away from nuclear power plants.

So, until the government and every bit of Indonesians that have no conscious of what lies 30 years ahead can pull their minds together, I’m as sure as hell that the blackouts are going to be more often. I’m going to invest on a generator. Something that is perhaps more reliable than our trusty ol’ power company.

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