‘Jokowi’s call for climate action rings hollow’

Making a stand: Environmentalists urging the government not to fund fossil fuel exploitation to help stop climate change in late 2020 in Jakarta. — The Jakarta Post/ANN

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo called for stronger global commitments to tackle climate change this week, but environmentalists complain that Indonesia’s emissions-reduction target has not budged and that national policies are still being pursued at the expense of the environment.

In a pre-recorded statement aired at the 2021 Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) hosted by the Netherlands on Tuesday, Jokowi said that the impacts of climate change were “very real” for archipelagic nations like Indonesia.