Ir. Habibie Razak was honoured to deliver the presentation this afternoon on behalf of Indonesia – PII in the IES – AFEO – AER Seminar: Future Ready Engineering Excellence – ASEAN Case Studies infrastructure, Geotech & Fire Safety, 12 July 2024. This seminar is part of AFEO Midterm Meeting program which is being held from 11 to 13 July 2024 in Singapore.

The topic of his presentation stresses out “Opportunity in the Indonesia Construction Industry: Enhancing Sustainability in Indonesia’s Infrastructure Development”

He highlighted Construction Industry Overview in Indonesia, Overview on Embodied Carbon & Strategy to Reduce in Indonesia Construction Industry and ASEAN Collaboration under AFEO. There are at least 5 construction sectors in Indonesia which will give more opportunities to grow in the foreseeable future, water & wastewater, port and coastal, energy, resources and transport.

Habibie provided the example of project opportunities mostly in 4 different sectors which are considerably potential inviting the foreign investors and foreign contractors to pursue. In addition to that, engineering and construction players have mandates also to strategize their business on how reduce the embodied carbon in construction industry. Ir. Habibie said “when I flew from Jakarta to Singapore, I contributed to at least 200 kgCO2e while for sizeable construction projects from mobilization until commissioning and commercial operation, It contributes 10,000-ton CO2e. As an engineer, how then we reduce the carbon footprint by design the structure/infrastructure with circular economy concept including to use low carbon materials, reuse materials, minimize design load, improve construction factors, etc.

In term of ASEAN collaboration through ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organizations (AFEO), there were at least 3 large programs initiated by PII; Develop roadmap for ASEAN Integrated Battery and EV Ecosystem, Support the realization of ASEAN Blue Economic Framework as one of priority economy in the region and Cross-Border Electricity Trade in ASEAN in collaboration with ASEAN Center for Energy.

This seminar initiated by the Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) invited several speakers from IEM Malaysia, IES Singapore and PII Indonesia. The event was attended by at least 40 engineers in various sectors.