InfoSAWIT, NANNING — Indonesia in the 21st China – (Association of Southeast Asian Nation) ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) in Nanning, China, re-emphasized its commitment to green policy and sustainable development. In the second day of the expo, there was Dialogue for China’s Green Policy in CAEXPO 2024. It was the moment for the stakeholders of ASEAN and China to discuss about green policies and sustainable supply chain the regions.
The dialogue was the initiative of Indonesia to gather many experts, including Musdalifah Machmud – the Expert Staff in Service Development Connectivity and Natural Resources in Coordinator Ministry in Economy, Indonesian Republic; Yonghong Li, General Director of Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center in The Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China through online; and Dr. Rizal Affandi Lukman, General Secretary of Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC) through virtual. Their participation showed that the discussion would be very significant about green policies and sustainable supply chain in ASEAN and China.
General Director of National Export Development, Ministry of Trade, Indonesian Republic, Mardyana Listyowati that delivered opening speech in the dialogue, emphasized that it would be important to get synergy between Indonesia and China to get green policy implementation particularly in agriculture sectors and sustainable commodities. “This meeting would be the form of real support from Indonesia to Green Policy of China that would be starting from 1 January 2025," Mardyana said, as InfoSAWIT quoted, Thursday (26/9/2024).
Mardyana hoped the platform would make the network and collaboration beter between every stakeholder, namely to face China’s Green Value Chain that would be immediately implemented. She thought, the good cooperation between ASEAN and China would be very significant to confirm economic and environmental sustainability in the regions.
Musdalifah Machmud as the main speaker also explained that the green policies would be not only the global scale – trend but also the national scale – priority for Indonesia. “We have integrated green policies into many national scale – strategies, such as, Nationally Medium - Term Development Plans and environmental industrial policies,” she said.
She also said about Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) implementation as the way of the government to confirm that palm oil industries, one of main commodities in Indonesia, operate with the sustainable principles. ISPO standards were formulated to qualify the global scale - demands and maintain the environmental conservation.
Rizal Affandi Lukman denied the negative claims that often attached to palm oil plantations to every environmental damage. He thought, palm oil would be the most efficient and important plant to support renewable energy transition through the products, such as, biodiesel. B30 program in Indonesia that obliged to mix 30% biodiesel to diesel fuel, showed the strategic role of palm oil in the green energy agenda in Indonesia itself.
Indonesia has implemented concrete things to support green policy implementation, starting from the regulation reinforcement until the increasing use of environmental technologies. “We keep supporting the synergy among the government, industries, and the people to confirm the balance of economic development and environmental conservation,” Musdalifah said.
She also mentioned that Indonesia would be ready to cooperate with China and ASEAN members to face the global scale – environmental issues, including to reinforce the knowledge and technology transfer in green supply chain.
Yonghong Li would be optimist that the cooperation would be closer between ASEAN and China in sustainable development. He thought, the policy ‘China Green Value Chain’ would positively deliver impacts, not only for the environment but also for the people’s welfare in the two regions.
In the end of her speech, Mardyana took every participant to attend the 39th Trade Expo Indonesia in October 2024 in Tangerang. TEI should be the moment to introduce the mainstay products from Indonesia, including sustainable palm oil and would open new business chances.
The green policy dialogue should be the moment for the two regions to reinforce the cooperation to face the global-scale challenges about environment and sustainable development. (T2)
