Strengthening Risk Awareness Culture, AMREI Partners with Universities and Students
“Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is a virtue,” wrote philosopher Baruch Spinoza.
The Indonesian Energy Risk Management Association (AMREI) held a national training session themed Risk Culture and National Development Risk Management in Jakarta on Wednesday (1/4) to strengthen risk awareness culture across various sectors. This initiative targets government agencies, institutions, companies, and the academic community. AMREI’s General Chairman, Rifky Assamady, emphasised that collaboration with universities is highly strategic to equip students with risk management competencies before they enter the workforce, while also ensuring the sustainability of energy resilience and national development stability.
On this occasion, the man familiarly known as Roy revealed that AMREI will soon sign memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with several universities, including Universitas Borobudur. Additionally, AMREI is preparing a policy brief as recommendations to strengthen energy sector risk governance, which will be proposed to relevant ministries and institutions. According to him, the main principle of risk management is to instil a sense of belonging and sense of crisis in every individual within the organisation to enable the formulation of low-budget, high-impact strategies amid current budget efficiency challenges.
Risk management, Roy continued, becomes key when budgets are shrinking through the creation of a risk register focused on high-impact priorities with efficient costs, covering financial, legal, and procurement aspects. The implementation of this training is also a strategic step to support the implementation of Regulation Per-02 of 2023 and to strengthen awareness of National Development Risk Management in accordance with Presidential Regulation 39 of 2023. Amid uncertain global geopolitical dynamics, serious application of risk management becomes an absolute requirement for institutions and companies to survive and possess high resilience.
AMREI now positions itself as a strategic advisory partner and ecosystem facilitator that harmonises cross-institutional sectoral communication. Through an analytical mentoring approach, AMREI encourages a policy shift from reactive to anticipatory governance. This aims to control fiscal risks from an early stage and anticipate potential crises in a targeted manner. Roy stressed the importance of building a risk culture to avoid silo mentalities and create adaptive and collaborative cross-functional synergies.
Philosophically, Roy reflected that the value of risk management aligns with life’s principles and religious teachings that demand steadfastness, honesty, and openness in managing responsibilities. On the other hand, AMREI’s General Secretary, Mohamad Soleh, added that this training aims to build collective awareness of strategic energy risks, particularly the threat of global energy crises that could pressure fiscal conditions and disrupt public and private operations.
To instil this risk awareness culture, AMREI employs an innovative method in the form of an interactive board game. This method was chosen so that participants can understand the consequences of every decision in a deeper and more enjoyable way. Through the game, each individual is invited to share experiences regarding positive and negative behaviours that have occurred in the field. Soleh believes that an approach involving logic and emotion will strengthen the commitment of all stakeholders in implementing risk culture concretely in their respective institutions.