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KELANA and PLN Indonesia Power Take 11 Students Inside Bandung’s Energy Transition

From CNN Indonesia · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Indonesia’s Environment Ministry and PLN Indonesia Power hosted 11 high school students at the historic Bengkok Hydroelectric Power Plant in West Java.
  • The students learned how the facility manages water from the Cikapundung River, removes waste before power generation and supports environmental programs such as tree planting.
  • The KELANA program aims to broaden students’ understanding of water conservation and the transition to clean energy through hands-on visits.

At Bengkok Hydroelectric Power Plant in Bandung, 11 Indonesian high school students saw the turbines and generators they had previously encountered only in textbooks.

The visit formed part of Episode 4 of the Kenali Lingkungan Bareng Anak Muda, or KELANA, program organized by the Ministry of Environment and the Environmental Control Agency in cooperation with PLN Indonesia Power. The students came from across the archipelago and were joined by Puteri Indonesia Lingkungan 2026, Victoria Titiasari Kosasieputri.

For the environmental management we carry out at Bengkok Hydroelectric Power Plant, especially for the water we take from the Cikapundung River, we remove waste from the water before using it for power generation. We then distribute the collected waste to local temporary disposal sites.

· Hamzah Wildan MuharamThe plant team leader described its water-management and waste-handling practices.

Their first stop was the Bengkok plant, a historic facility that has supplied electricity since 1923. It uses water from the Cikapundung River as its main source. Hamzah Wildan Muharam, the plant’s team leader, said staff remove waste from the water before using it for electricity generation and send the collected rubbish to local temporary disposal sites.

It is a good program from the ministry because it can broaden everyone’s knowledge, especially for students who are still in high school, and add to their portfolios as they decide what path to take in the future.

· Hamzah Wildan MuharamHamzah praised the educational value of the KELANA visit.

The plant also carries out regular tree-planting activities as part of its sustainability programs. Hamzah described KELANA as a forward-looking initiative that could expand students’ ecological knowledge and strengthen their academic portfolios as they consider further education.

Victoria said the opening day was particularly engaging because the group could inspect the equipment directly. Some participants were also visiting areas outside their hometowns for the first time. The Environment Ministry said the program was intended to help students understand water conservation and the clean-energy transition through direct experience.

We could see the equipment we usually see in textbooks, but now we saw the turbines and generators directly, together with high school students from across Indonesia.

· Victoria Titiasari KosasieputriVictoria described the students’ firsthand experience at the Bandung plant.
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