Jakarta – The majority of Indonesian youths aired issues over the climate crisis, according to a study including 8,374 respondents carried out by Indonesian non-profit organization CERAH working to advance the energy transition policy program and Change.org.
The study found that 89 percent of the total respondents mentioned climate crisis as one of the most significant challenges faced by today’s generation, of which 59 percent revealed significant issues, while 30 percent viewed the environment crisis as a grave problem. Nine percent of the respondents voiced slight concerns.
” Only 0.6 percent of the participants are not worried over the impact of the environment crisis, while one percent were uninformed or possibly did not think in it,” Executive Director of Cerah Structure Adhityani Putri specified in her discussion on the study findings at a virtual interview held on Friday.
The study, distributed to Change.org users and social media users through platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, covered respondents in the age band of 17 to 51 years, with the majority of being 21-30 years of age, constituting 37 percent of the overall respondents.
Some 72 percent declared to reside in Java; 13 percent from Sumatra; six percent from Kalimantan; 4 percent from Bali, West Nusa Tenggara, and East Nusa Tenggara; as well as 2 percent from Sulawesi; and one percent from Maluku and Papua.
The study suggested that the active youth samples obtained info on climate crisis through numerous sources, with 72 percent from the online media; 54 percent from online websites and social networks platforms, such as Instagram, reaching 46 percent; YouTube, 42 percent; Twitter, 19 percent; and Facebook, 18 percent. Simply 17 percent got info from newspapers and 9 percent from publications.
Some 64 percent of the participants think that the effect of environment crisis can be worse than that of COVID-19, with 32 percent harboring a belief that the impact will be akin to that of the ongoing pandemic.
Just 3 percent of the participants forecast the impact of the climate crisis to be less serious than the COVID-19 pandemic.
” We also conducted a survey on what they perceive as the best solution, and stopping land and forest cleaning and burning emerged as the top action, at 28 percent,” she pointed out.
The 2nd solution, chosen by 26 percent of the overall participants, was to end reliance on nonrenewable fuel source and begin using renewable energy. On the other hand, 19 percent of the participants think that the solution is to lead an eco-friendly way of life.
” From the first and second reactions, for us, that is fantastic news considering that it suggests there is a sense of understanding among them to produce enormous and systemic modifications,” she included.
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