Clean Power | Faiq Aqilan Hendriana | 6th Critical Thinking Championship

Summary

The speaker frames the global shift to clean energy as a race that will shape the future. Indonesia remains heavily dependent on coal: around 64.87% of the country’s power plants use coal, even though Indonesia has an estimated 3,294 gigawatts of solar-energy potential. Only 1.49 gigawatts of that potential has been used.

The speech proposes Islamic boarding schools as one way to help close the gap. Indonesia has more than 42,000 such schools, whose rooftops could be fitted with solar panels. Each roof may generate a modest amount of energy, but together, thousands of rooftops could make a meaningful contribution to clean power and support Sustainable Development Goal 7.

The closing message is a call to participate: rather than focus on who will win the clean-energy race, Indonesia should ask whether it will join in—because the race has already begun.

Speaker

• Faik Akmal Sendjana — identified in the subtitles as a student at MTs Milbos. The video title spells the speaker’s name as Faiq Aqilan Hendriana, so the name differs between the title and subtitles.