Indonesia committed to achieve NZE target sooner than 2060: Jokowi

Jakarta, The Gulf Observer: President Joko Widodo reiterated Indonesia’s firm commitment to achieving the net-zero emissions (NZE) target sooner than 2060 for the sake of realizing an inclusive economy and emerging as a prosperous and sustainable country.

According to a press statement released in Jakarta on Friday, Widodo made the statement in his speech at the Conference of the Parties 28 (COP28) climate change high-level event in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

In his remarks, he noted that Indonesia has been consistent in investing all-out efforts to reduce the amount of carbon emissions, including by improving the management of the forest and other land use (FoLU) sector and expediting clean energy transition.

“In terms of the management of the FoLU sector, Indonesia has continued to protect and expand the area of mangroves while rehabilitating forests and lands,” he noted.

Widodo then emphasized that Indonesia had been successful in suppressing the rate of deforestation to the lowest figure in the last two decades while noting the country’s success in developing productive nurseries on a massive scale.

“We have been conducting massive development of nurseries, with a total capacity of about 75 million seeds per year. The nurseries have become operational,” he stated.