President Jokowi Urges Global Collaboration to Tackle Climate Change

President Joko Widodo, on Thursday (5/9), emphasized the importance of increasing collaboration between developed and developing countries to address the increasingly threatening problem of climate change. “The problem of climate change will never be resolved as long as the world uses an economic approach, as long as the world only calculates its own profits and as long as the world only cares about its own ego,” said Jokowi in his speech when opening the 2024 Indonesian International Sustainability Forum (ISF) in Jakarta. According to Jokowi, Indonesia has abundant green energy potential, reaching more than 3,600 GW. The country also has a Floating Solar Power Plant (PLTS) in Cirata which has a capacity of 192 MW peak, the largest in Southeast Asia and the third largest in the world. The President added that Indonesia also has great potential in carbon absorption, through the world's largest mangrove forest of 3.3 million hectares, which is able to absorb carbon 8-12 times better than tropical rainforests. In addition, Indonesia has a green industrial area of 13,000 hectares. “But all of that will not have a significant impact on accelerating the handling of climate change impacts, as long as developed countries do not dare to …

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