Build A Sustainable Capital City, IKN Authority Collaborates With UNDP

IKN illustration (Photo: Doc. Antara)

The Capital Archipelago Authority (OIKN) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) collaborate to build a sustainable city. Especially in the State Capital (IKN) of the Archipelago.

"We are very happy to be collaborating because this collaboration will accelerate our goal of realizing IKN as a city for all," said OIKN Head Bambang Susantono in an official statement received in Jakarta, Thursday.

Bambang said the IKN Authority and UNDP had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together to build a sustainable city at IKN Nusantara.

The MoU is the foundation for joint initiatives in various efforts to realize eight main principles of IKN development, namely building in accordance with nature, reflecting unity in diversity, connectivity, activity, and accessibility, enabling low carbon emissions, becoming circular and resilient, promoting safety and accessibility, ensuring security and efficiency through technology, and increasing economic opportunities for all.

Based on the MoU signed by the Head of OIKN Bambang Susantono and the Director of UNDP for Asia Pacific Kanni Wignaraja, in the future OIKN and UNDP will encourage inclusive, fair, productive, and sustainable development practices.

This collaboration will be realized, among other things, through the contribution of insight related to inclusive development related to plans, programs, publications, joint training, conferences and various other efforts for the development of sustainable cities in the archipelago.

In addition, this collaboration will help the Indonesian government in establishing the archipelago as a symbol of national identity towards the 2045 Indonesian Vision.

Previously, the OIKN of the Republic of Indonesia and the Center for Livable Cities (CLC), part of the Ministry of National Development of Singapore, collaborated to develop a habitable city at IKN Nusantara.

Bambang said that OIKN is working with CLC Singapore, an organization under Singapore's National Development Ministry, and has experience in sharing knowledge about the development of habitable and sustainable cities in the world.

This strategic collaboration includes steps to strengthen the collaboration of knowledge sharing and capacity development by CLC in realizing a habitable city in the archipelago. This memorandum or memorandum of understanding (MoU) is the first memorandum between OIKN and other countries' ministries (government to government or G-to-G).