Ekonomi 04 Mei 2025, 13:00 Deputy Chairperson of PHRI Bali I Gusti Ngurah Rai Suryawijaya when interviewed in Denpasar. (ANTARA) DENPASAR - The Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Bali encourages the idea of Bali's independent energy to be realized immediately.Deputy Chairman of PHRI Bali I Gusti Agung Rai Suryawijaya stated that this was the aftermath of a power outage in almost all of Bali on Friday, May 2."We hope that the Bali Provincial Government, Bali, independent energy must occur, because it is very risky if something happens, so we must have independent energy," Agung said as quoted by ANTARA, Sunday, May 4.PHRI Bali assesses that as a tourism area Bali cannot always rely on electricity distribution from Java.The accommodation and restaurant industry is afraid that power outages will not provide good entertainment for tourism, especially when hotel occupancy is currently at 60-70 percent of the approximately 160 thousand available rooms.In addition to encouraging independent energy, PHRI Bali asked PLN as an electricity provider to routinely care for their technology, considering that at least the last five years something like this has never happened."Also PLN should carry out daily maintenance, every day there must be, weekly and monthly so that it doesn't suddenly happen like this," said Agung Rai.The incident itself hit more than 5 hours from Bali since 16.00 WITA.Luckily, hotels in Bali provide generators as backup electricity supplies that are optimized to serve tourists."If in hotels, you already have your own generator, when there is an automatic blackout from PLN in seconds the generator will be able to live, but guests will think whether Bali lacks energy or lack preparation or what until suddenly it can blackout," he said.PHRI Bali sees that although they can still maintain lighting in the hotel area, the response of tourists to the darkness of public areas and roads is a bad thing."So the most important problem is in the public area which is very dark, both on roads, beaches, destinations, and all kinds of things that happen," said Agung Rai.The accommodation can only explain the sudden condition of the blackout, but cannot confirm the next condition for tourists.What is also a concern is that conditions on the road are dark and dangerous for tourists, so that the ranks of PHRI Bali can only ask tourists to be careful in these conditions. The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)