Energy Concervation Policy in Indonesia: Challenges and Solutions in Islamic Economics

Indonesia's energy policy focuses on developing renewable energy sources as a substitute for fossil-based energy sources whose inventories are already depleting. Energy conservation in Indonesia aims to make energy savings, so as to prevent the occurrence of energy crises that affect all sectors. The use of natural gas emissions, pollution and environmental pollution, and ecosystem destruction are issues that demand energy conservation policies. This study applies a policy analysis and content analysis approach to Qur'anic texts on the energy and policies of the Indonesian government in 2016-2017. This paper concludes that the increasing public demand for energy consumption, industrial development and environmental degradation, energy conservation through energy saving, is not only a religious obligation in terms of Islamic legal goals (maqashid shariah) for every individual, institution, and government. In Islamic economics, energy conservation requires a strategic and actual implementation that can meet the needs of people's energy consumption such as electricity and fuel, replacing fuels from renewable energy at affordable and accessible prices, and sustainability of the environment and ecosystem