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Indonesia to raise sustainable development issues at World Expo 2025 Osaka
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Courtesy of The Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas)
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ndonesia is gearing up to join World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, from April 13 to Oct. 13, 2025. The agenda serves as the main platform for various countries to reinforce their commitment to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
The Indonesian Pavilion at the five-yearly event will carry the theme “Thriving in Harmony: Nature, Culture, Future”, focusing primarily on Indonesia’s commitment to sustainable development, including implementing the green and blue economies under the SDGs framework.
The ship used as the design for the Indonesia Pavilion represents sustainable development and symbolizes the future exploration in accordance with the 2025-2045 National Long-Term Development Plan (RPJPN) “A Sovereign, Advanced and Sustainable Archipelagic Country” to embody the Golden Indonesia 2045 Vision.
“As the world’s largest archipelagic country, home to the world’s fourth-largest population and the world’s second-largest biodiversity, Indonesia has carried out various strategies to achieve the SDGs. Last year, a report released by the United Nations revealed that Indonesia was one of the countries with the most progressive achievement regarding the SDGs among the upper middle-income economies,” explained National Development Planning Minister/Head of the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Suharso Monoarfa, who acted as Responsible National Authority for organizing Indonesia’s participation in World Expo 2025 in Osaka on Feb. 28.
The preparatory meeting was attended by Indonesian Ambassador to Japan Heri Akhmadi, Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokohama, World Expo 2025 Osaka secretary-general Hiroyuki Ishige, as well as general consuls and general commissioners from the Expo participating countries.
The 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report released by the UN showed Indonesia has succeeded in moving up from the world’s 102nd position in 2019 to the 75th position.
Indonesia’s SDGs index has risen from 64.2 in 2019 to 70.2 in 2023. The report also showed 63 percent of indicators achieved their target, while 16 percent of other indicators experienced significant improvement. The report noted that Indonesia is one of the most progressive countries in achieving the SDGs targets among upper-middle income economies.
Deputy for maritime affairs and natural resources at the Ministry of National Development Planning/Bappenas Vivi Yulaswati asserted the urgency of the improvement of target achievement, particularly by ensuring sustainable development for global challenges, namely the Triple Planetary Crisis, which covers climate, pollution and nature resilience.
“As many as 50-70 percent of the world population are under threat from the climate in 2100. Air population has a death toll of 4.2 million every year and as many as 1 million plants and animals are under threat of extinction,” Vivi said.
This article was published in collaboration with The Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas)
