Heaptalk, Jakarta — Indonesia’s President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo attended the World Climate Action Summit (WCAS) COP28 series in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to him, COP28 is one place to amplify the implementation in tackling climate change worldwide.
“The WCAS COP28 is an event to strengthen implementation in handling climate change issues. The Paris Agreement principle must be a guideline to share responsibilities according to national capabilities.” Affirmed the President, during his speech at Expo City, Dubai. (12/02)
For this reason, the president expressed Indonesia’s support for the G77 Summit and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and conveyed three significant points that could be executed to carry out joint action.
In more detail, the leader of Indonesia called the overall parties to reinforce strategic cooperation with Asia-Africa. Based on Jokowi’s perspective, he observed that strengthening equal solidarity and collaboration is essential in resolving global climate change. Through this collaboration, the President revealed the archipelago has provided climate management training for the Africa, South Asia, Latin America, Caribbean, and Pacific regions.
In the second point, Jokowi highlighted the contribution of developing countries as part of a global solution. The President explained that Indonesia’s chairmanship of international conferences had generated several strategic actions and points of view on experiencing global climate change.
The president also emphasized the importance of cohesiveness and inclusiveness in fulfilling the global agenda. For this reason, he encouraged a global inventory or global stocktake to reflect the funding needs of developing countries and the unfulfilled commitments of countries from developed countries.
In his further statement, he explained that the loss and damage funding structure should be simple to access. In addition, Jokowi emphasized that adequate resources and technology must support transparency and certainty in new collective funding targets.
Concurrently, President Jokowi also highlighted the food barns sector. He says demand for agricultural and plantation products will continue to increase. Apart from abundant food, Jokowi perceived that agriculture and plantations also produce fuel in the form of biodiesel, bioethanol, etc. Hence, he called multiple parties to realize sustainable food product security.
Indonesia’s superiority in the agricultural field
Jokowi delivered that the archipelago has superiority in the fertile land and abundant natural resources landscape, with the number of people entering productive age reaching 30% in the agricultural sector. Besides, he claimed that the country also possessed supporting infrastructure and an adequate ecosystem, such as road infrastructure irrigation, including irrigation roads and ports.
“This potential can be developed further for the welfare of small-scale agriculture to large-scale food storage and pre-plantation, with the support of funding and high technology transfer to fulfill the global demand. I look forward to collaboration and investment in the agricultural sector, specifically for products that produce more environmentally friendly energy.” Jokowi said in his statement.
For this reason, the President emphasized the country’s solid support for the UAE presidential initiative that promotes international collaboration centers on sustainable agriculture and resilient supply chains. He expected this initiative to produce tangible results to create a prosperous world climate.
Translated by Syifa
