Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – President Director of PT PLN (Persero) Darmawan Prasodjo won the award “Male Executive of the Year” at the 2023 Power Energy Awards held by Enlit Asia. This award was given for its success in carrying out digital transformation within PLN and accelerating the energy transition in Indonesia.
Apart from that, PLN was also awarded four other awards, namely Power Utility of the Year, Innovation of the Year for the PLN Mobile application, Renewable Energy & Sustainability Project of the Year for the Cirata Floating PLTS Project, and the ASEAN Electrification Project of the Year for the electrification of Kalimantan.
Portfolio Director of Energy for Clarion Events Asia, Simon Hoare, said that this event was a historical milestone to strengthen collaboration in the electricity sector. This is because the journey towards an energy transition requires collaboration from various parties.
“This is the first time that Enlit Asia’s agenda for the electricity and energy sector has been held in Indonesia. This event is an important milestone in turning disparateness into cohesive collaboration between all of us,” said Simon in a written statement, Wednesday (15/11/2023).
PLN President Director Darmawan Prasodjo said that this award was the result of PLN’s transformation efforts in responding to global challenges. This state-owned electricity company is digitalizing everything from generation, transmission, procurement to customer service.
“Currently, everything is digitally integrated. In the past, all business processes were fragmented. Currently, PLN is much stronger and more efficient. So we can provide much better customer service,” said Darmawan.
In combining PLN’s success to improve services, Darmawan explained through SuperApp masterpiece PLN Mobile has succeeded in making complex business processes easy and fast. This is proven by the PLN mobile application which has been downloaded by 45 million people.
“When I checked 4 years ago, the PLN mobile application the rating 2.5, downloader-half a million, and 450,000uninstall the application. Now, the PLN Mobile application has been downloaded by 45 million people, the rating showed an increase from 2.5 to 4.9,” he said.
However, he said that this award was not immediately achieved because of his own strength, but because of the joint work of 60 thousand employees in improving the company’s performance and service to the community.
“This award is given to the 60 thousand PLN employees who work hard to ensure that not only PLN becomes stronger, but also how we can serve customers better,” said Darmawan.
He also explained that thanks to this transformation, PLN was able to survive during Covid-19, even achieving the best financial performance in history.
“During the Covid-19 pandemic, we also succeeded in posting the best financial reports in PLN’s history for two consecutive years,” he concluded.
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