Indonesia's Increasingly Important Role In The Environmental Diplomacy Forum

Director General of PPKL Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), Sigit (left)/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - Director General of Pollution and Environmental Damage Control (PPKL), Sigit Reliantoro said Indonesia played an important role in various global environmental diplomacy forums and had delivered various achievements, including reducing deforestation rates and various policies to encourage the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The environmental diplomacy side voices Indonesia's interests, as well as Indonesia's success. If we see that we were specifically invited to the G7 forum, it means that Indonesia's role is increasingly important in environmental diplomacy forums," said Director General of PPKL of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), Sigit at the meeting. media in Jakarta, Monday, June 13. Sigit said that in the environmental field, it started in the 1970s when the forerunner of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry was established after the Stockholm Conference, which was the first UN conference related to the environment in 1972. Since then, Indonesia has participated in various global conventions related to the environment. environment, t This includes ratifying the Paris Agreement through Law Number 16 of 2016. During the press conference discussing Stockholm +50 and World Environment Day 2022, Sigit explained that Indonesia has taken various steps to deal with various environmental issues, such as forest and land fires, waste management. and waste, environmental pollution and climate change management. Indonesia's environmental diplomacy is also continuously being carried out and bearing fruit considering that Indonesia has various important factors to deal with climate change, such as peat, mangroves, forests and biodiversity. biodiversity," said Sigit.