Indonesia
After a meeting with the United Kingdom Climate Change Committee (UK CCC), Environment Minister Mohammad Jumhur Hidayat raised a plan to form a similar independent body in Indonesia to strengthen the country’s climate actions.
Environment Minister Mohammad Jumhur Hidayat (second right) looks at a bamboo plant on June 14 during a bamboo planting ceremony in Bogor regency, West Java. (Antara/Yulius Satria Wijaya)
The government is raising a plan to establish a new independent body tasked with strengthening the national climate crisis mitigation management system but has been met with questions from environmentalists about whether a new institution will effectively improve Indonesia’s climate governance.The plan was first mentioned after a bilateral meeting between an Indonesian delegation with the United Kingdom Climate Change Committee (UK CCC) during London Climate Week on June 20-28.
In a statement issued on June 24, Environment Minister Mohammad Jumhur Hidayat said Indonesia could learn from the model used by the UK by creating an institution capable of providing objective scientific recommendations free from political interference.
