Parliament Cuts Costs, Nurul: Don't Let It Disrupt Legislative Performance
DPR Commission I member Nurul Arifin has expressed support for the energy-saving policy in the parliamentary complex. However, she warned that the savings should not disrupt the performance of lawmakers.
“I hope the energy efficiency policy does not interfere with the DPR’s legislative, oversight, and budgetary functions,” said Nurul Arifin in a written statement quoted on Sunday, 29 March 2026.
The Golkar Party politician assessed that energy efficiency through limiting electricity use and fuel oil for official vehicles of echelon I-III in the DPR could be emulated by the public. She hoped it would be followed by society to use energy more wisely amid the Middle East conflict threatening a crisis of non-renewable natural resources.
“We fully support the energy efficiency policy programme in the parliamentary environment for all parliament members, civil servants, and support staff in the parliamentary environment and will discipline ourselves in implementing this policy,” she said.
Nurul Arifin also agreed with the work-from-home plan conveyed by DPR Secretary General Indra Iskandar. According to her, the WFH scheme will effectively reduce energy use because it does not require travel to the office.
Previously, Indra Iskandar stated that his institution had formulated ways to save energy in response to the rise in world oil prices. According to Indra, the three main focuses of savings by the DPR General Secretariat are limiting BBM use, regulating electricity use in the DPR building, and tightening official travel rules.
The BBM use restriction applies to echelon I to III officials using official vehicles with a savings target of Rp 1.5 billion. In the future, a Radio Frequency Identification-based BBM control system will be implemented, in the form of real-time identification and monitoring technology for BBM distribution via RFID labels attached to vehicles.
Indra also opened the possibility of implementing a work-from-home policy specifically on Fridays. “If on Fridays we implement WFH, then the employee shuttle bus does not need to operate. This will certainly be a significant efficiency potential,” said Indra quoted from the DPR website’s written statement on Saturday, 28 March 2026.
Then, electricity savings in the DPR Complex will begin with scheduled power outages starting at 18:00 WIB. According to Indra, this step can save electrical energy when there are only a few workers at night. This saving will impact overall building operations, including the use of lifts and other facilities.
Furthermore, the DPR Setjen has decided to select its employees’ official travels. Where official travels that do not have high urgency will be limited or switched to virtual meetings. “For activities with high urgency such as discussing draft laws or public hearings that require direct presence, we will still facilitate them.”
Indra explained that this policy was discussed before the 2026 Eid al-Fitr holiday by the Building and Residence Management Bureau together with the General Bureau of the DPR Setjen. This saving policy will be implemented after the Lebaran holiday until the end of the 2026 fiscal year.
According to him, in the future this policy will be evaluated periodically and additional efficiencies may be possible. He claimed this policy will not disrupt the Setjen DPR’s services to leaders and council members.
Moreover, he realised that the dynamics of DPR meetings are directly related to public interests that cannot be rigidly limited. “Council meetings concern public interests, so their timing is very dynamic and cannot be restricted. That remains our primary concern,” said Indra.