A Mapping of Various Geothermal Education in Indonesia to Ease Geothermal Personnel Gain Comprehensive Knowledge

Abstract

Indonesia has been known as one of the largest geothermal energy potentials which are currently in the effort to accelerating geothermal development to meet with target of renewable energy in the Indonesia energy mix, to boost this program, exploration project would become main program of Government of Indonesia to achieve the targets. Geothermal project has unique system than others renewable energy, the energy source obtained from subsurface such as the oil and gas system, however the environment is different, so it needs more personnel who has good knowledge regarding geothermal energy and project. The education of geothermal energy & project knowledge which taken by each personnel who involved on the project is critical to the project success. Now, the formal education about geothermal engineering in Indonesia especially for Strata-1 (S1) still classified in the general energy study program (not specific) such as geological engineering, geophysical engineering, petroleum engineering, mechanical engineering, etc. However, this formal education when associated with the geothermal project, currently it takes 1-2 years to take more comprehensive knowledge and education.

The current conditions, majority of geothermal project personnel in Indonesia have non-geothermal education background and indicates there are no institutions that provide regular training or short courses on geothermal topics, so for these personnel who want to migrate from other energy to geothermal will face constraint to acquire required personnel competencies. This paper aims to map the various of formal and informal educations about geothermal such as webinars, short courses, training, workshop, and another education event in Indonesia, to ease the company or personnel gain the knowledge about geothermal study. In this study, the literature review and discussion will be the methods used to achieve the objective of this paper.