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Smart City and Community Innovation Center at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in Bandung, West Java released research about Indonesian Digital Transformation and Smart City Rating 2021. Based on the research, five cities rank the highest in the City Caring for Climate Change category.

Head of the Smart City and Community Innovation Center, Prof. Suhono Harso Supangkat in a written statement in Bandung, Tuesday (1/2) said that the five cities are Semarang, Surabaya, Bogor, Bandung, and Tangerang. He further explained that a smart city is a city that is able to manage various resources effectively and efficiently to solve various urban challenges by using a smart solution. They must provide city infrastructure, facility and service that can improve their people's life quality. There is a special assessment for this category to find a city's support in facing climate change that affects the earth surface's temperature resulting from the increasing carbon dioxide.

The indicators for it include the use of renewable energy, vehicle reduction, and environment management. These indicators also discuss more detail about energy substitution, energy-saving vehicle implementation, public transport use, and green open space increase.

Prof. Suhono also stated that along with urbanization, issues in the cities also grow. Population density with an uncontrolled carbon condition can threaten the world's climate change.

Meanwhile, according to the City Transition Coalition, cities are responsible for 75 percent of global carbon emission. Some cities in Indonesia have been aware of the importance of focusing on reducing the impact of global climate change.