For the improvement of human resources in Indonesia, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology has an important role to make a reality. The government is currently trying to improve and innovate a program to support higher education in Indonesia. One of the programs that has been massively promoted is the latest program from the Internship and Certified Independent Study (MSIB), which is the Solar Electricity Initiative Movement (GERILYA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. This internship program is implemented in a 6 month  period, 2 months courses and 4 months team-based  project.

This decision was taken to support the target of achieving renewable energy in Indonesia. Therefore, it is hoped that the program will involve the students who can be directly participating in the use of Renewable Energy.

"There are two issues why we should pursue the energy transition. The first is for the benefit of Indonesia. Currently, 86 percent of electricity comes from fossil energy, and one day it will run out. With the energy transition, we want the quality of national energy security and independence to improve, no longer depending on fossil energy. We have renewable energy sources, and they are abundant. This means that if we want to transition from fossil to non-fossil, the source is already there," said Secretary General of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Rida Mulyana, at the Launching of the GERILYA MSIB Batch 4 Program, at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Office, Wednesday (1/3).

The second issue is global pressure due to warming caused by increasing GHGs. This makes the earth's temperature become higher, and the weather is even more unpredictable.

"As a global citizen, we must also contribute to maintaining the earth by helping to keep the earth's temperature from increasing, and this has been agreed at the past COP 21, until later at the G20 the issue of energy transition came to the fore. The end is how we contribute so that the earth's temperature does not increase further, we are targeting 1.5 degrees Celsius and for now the increase has reached 1.1 degrees Celsius," said Rida.

Currently, the implementation of the GERILYA program incorporated in the Internship and Certified Independent Study (MSIB) program has been open until Batch 4. This program is intended for students of exact studies programs at least during their third year, and the learning outcomes can later be converted into the equivalent of 20 credits. The program can also be followed by students with social  study programs.

In Batch 4 of GERILYA MSIB, 2,456 applicants from 280 universities in Indonesia have been selected. As a result, 62 students from 34 universities passed the GERILYA selection. Of the total number of students who passed the selection, 24 people or 38% of them were women. This is also a form of commitment to gender equality in the implementation of this program.

During the implementation of the previous 2 batches, GERILYA students have contributed to the planning, installation, and operation and maintenance of various types of solar power plants spread throughout Indonesia. One of them is directly involved in the preparation and planning of Cirata Floating Solar Power Plant, which will be the largest floating solar power plant in Southeast Asia.