Minister Of Environment And Forestry: Ice At The Top Of Cartenz Will Run Out In 2026

Minister of Environment Hanif Faisol Nurofiq when giving a virtual speech at the 2025 Bali Climate Week National Forum, in Denpasar, Monday (25/8). (PHOTO: Dafi-VOI)

DENPASAR - Minister of Environment Hanif Faisol Nurofiq said the ice or snow at the peak of Cartenz in the Jayawijaya Mountains, Central Papua, continues to melt and is predicted to disappear due to the impact of global warming in 2026.

Minister Hanif initially explained that the target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Indonesia was at the global level.

According to him, all countries are trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, nature performs its calibration very clearly.

"We see that today is ice at the top of Cartenz, one of the highest peaks in Indonesia has melted and is projected by the BMKG, so this ice, ice sheets will run out in 2026," said Minister Hanif when giving a virtual speech at the 2025 Bali Climate Week National Forum. , in Denpasar, Monday, August 25.

Hanif visited the top of Cartenz in 2023. At that time the ice snow only covered more than a third of the peak of Cartenz. The ice at the top of Cartenz is only on the tracks of Mount cartenz.

"I visited in 2023 at the peak of Cartenz, at that time the ice still covers more than a third of it. Today, we see on many monitors, the ice at the top of the cartenz has lived on the echoes of the mountains," he said.

"This then concludes to us, whatever we narrate, whatever we lecture with the spirit of steel with a very strong spirit. But apparently, nature provides different calibrations, nature concludes that our efforts have not had a serious impact, for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This is what we all care about," he said.