Minister Siti Nurbaya Says RI Can Capai Net Zero Emission In 2057

Minister of Environment and Forestry (LHK) Siti Nurbaya. (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Minister of Environment and Forestry (LHK) Siti Nurbaya said Indonesia could achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE) or net zero emissions a few years before the 2060 target set.

In the joint graduation ceremony and the peak of the 2024 Youth Conservation Fest monitored online in Jakarta, Thursday, Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya said the peak of Indonesia's development is expected to be achieved by 2030, in contrast to developed countries that had peaked in the previous decades.

"I say don't force Indonesia to net zero emissions by 2050. We have calculated that we will reach 2060 or earlier. Initially it was likely 2057 or 2058," said the Minister of Environment and Forestry.

He said that one of these estimates was based on the calculation of facilities that used coal such as factories and Steam Power Plants (PTLU) which would end their permits around 2057.

The government has also calculated in the second climate document or Second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) that by 2060 Indonesia will reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 103 percent.

The document itself will be launched ahead of the 29th UN Climate Conference (COP29) in Azerbaijan in November 2024.

"This means 100 percent means under 2060," said LHK Minister Siti Nurbaya.

Siti Nurbaya said the international community asked Indonesia to be the first driver to control emissions globally.

"Indonesia is now not one of the big parts of the country begging. We reduce emissions by an average of one year by around 700 million tons and that's very good for us to reduce," he said.

One of the largest declines occurred in 2015 after forest and land fires that occurred in an area of 2.6 million hectares, heading to 2016, which was around 925 million tons.

Although the energy sector is still in the process of reducing emissions, he said, there is a forestry sector and the use of forestry or forest and other land use (Folu) which is targeted to achieve a carbon absorption condition that is greater than the emission released in 2030 or Folu Net Sink 2030.