InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – President Joko Widodo claimed that Indonesia successfully reduced carbon emission and deforestation in G77 Conference and People’s Republic of China in the World Climate Action Summit (WCAS) Conference of Parties (COP)28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
ExecutiveDirector of Yayasan MADANI Berkelanjutan, Nadia Hadad carefully noticed the claim. She reminded that though Indonesia got progress, climate crisis that keeps increasing would need other actions.
She thought, though President Joko Widodo spoke details what Indonesia achieved in green – house gas emission and deforestation level, this country should not be satisfied. The latest data published by Global Carbon Project (GCP) showed that in 2023, Indonesia was the biggest ten of emission producer in the world that increased up to 18,3% from the previous year. The main factors to escalate the numbers were from fossil energy use, land use change, deforestation level.
“Indonesia should straightly go to net zero emission as the last point by vanishing fossil fuel use because data and facts are available completely from many perspectives,” Nadia said, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Tuesday (5/12/2023).
Prior, President Joko Widodo claimed that emission reduction reached up to 42% in 2022 compared to business as usual in 2015. But Nadia reminded, it needs to deliver transparent data and facts to the public to enable public participation in validating the achievement.
GCP revealed that Indonesia still got many notes and assignment to do. she mentioned that there are mismatches between emission reduction claim and field reality particularly in deforestation quota that enhanced nationally determined contribution (NDC) documents still deliver permits. Though President Joko Widodo promosed to improve forest and other land use (FOLU), there are still risks in forest change because of unharmonized policies.
Salma Zakiyah of Yayasan MADANI Berkelanjutan told that new deforestation would potentially happen because of energy plantation development to fulfil biomass co-firing target. She also mentioned it needs coordination among energy and forestry sectors to prevent trade-off in emission reduction.
The government of Indonesia should have political commitment firmly to escalate fair climate change action and it needs to involve in the parties that got impacts, such as, labors, smallholders, farmers, fishermen, indigenous people and honor the social and gender rights. Indonesia should be the leader by providing concrete samples to protect forests and achieve commitment in facing the climate crisis. (T2)
