Jakarta, The Indonesia Post – Deputy Chairperson of the Indonesian House of Representatives for the Coordination of People’s Welfare, Abdul Muhaimin Iskandar, stated that climate change is a global threat whose impact will be felt throughout the world.
“Scientific and qualitative evidence that cannot be denied is that the earth is getting hotter, the weather is extreme, sea levels are rising and flooding is on an extreme scale,” Muhaimin said in a written statement in Jakarta, Tuesday.
Muhaimin explained that change is a catastrophic (deadly) threat to the sustainability and prosperity of all countries and all the people of the world.
This was conveyed by Muhaimin while attending a talk show with business actors at the Indonesian Pavilion COP26 UNFCCC Glasgow, Monday, November 8, 2021.
Muhaimin emphasized that Indonesia has a special position and can play an important role in cooling the earth’s temperature. He called Indonesia the lungs of the world, because natural forests and mangroves will and have absorbed carbon on a giant scale.
However, Muhaimin acknowledged that as an archipelagic country, Indonesia has extreme vulnerability due to climate change, rising sea levels, extreme rainfall and crop failure. Therefore, Muhaimin stated that urgent and urgent climate change solutions are needed for the interests of Indonesia and the needs of the world.
“We need to use a ‘a whole government’ and ‘a whole society’ approach to achieve the national peak emission target and carbon net sink FOLU (Forestry and Other Land Use) in 2030 and Net Zero Emission in 2060 or sooner,” he said. Muhaimin confirmed.
On the other hand, Gus Muhaimin expressed two solutions to overcome climate change. First, policy change, and second is behavior change. These two solutions, he said, must be implemented simultaneously. According to Gus Muhaimin, changes on the state side are not enough without changing people’s behavior.
According to Muhaimin, the changes are from the supply side and the demand side. In that way, by 2030, there will be additional sources of our energy sourced from the sun, wind and other renewable energy sources.
“By 2030, we will succeed in stopping and reducing deforestation. And in that way, in 2060 or sooner, we will be able to achieve the Net Zero target,” said Muhaimin.
Meanwhile, President Director of Pertamina Power Indonesia Dannif Danu Saputro who was also present on the occasion explained the great potential of Indonesia as the second country that produces geothermal energy after the United States. This geothermal energy award belongs to Indonesia because it is located in the ring of fire area.
“About 40 percent of the world’s geothermal reserves are in Indonesia. I think it’s time for this abundant reserve to be optimized,” said Dannif.
On the same occasion, Deputy Director of Corp Affairs APRIL, Dian Novarina explained the importance of Restoration Ecosystem Riau as one of the largest ecosystem restoration programs in Indonesia. According to Dian, the Riau Ecosystem Restoration is to protect, assess, restore and manage biodiversity in the largest remaining Sundaland peatland rainforest area in Indonesia. (rma/bbs)
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