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Hope for change as Indonesia ratifies anti-nuke treaty
Indonesia’s top diplomat expressed hope that the global nuclear weapons non-proliferation agenda would gain more traction after Indonesia ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) on Tuesday.
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Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi applauds as she delivers her opening remarks during the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ) in Jakarta on July 11, 2023. (Courtesy of the Foreign Ministry/Pool)
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oreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi has expressed hope that the global nuclear weapons non-proliferation agenda may gain more traction going forward, after Indonesia became the latest country to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
The TPNW is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal being their total elimination.
The draft legislation was unanimously passed by the House of Representatives on Tuesday, just a week before the next meeting of the TPNW state parties at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the United States.
The new law must first be filed with and certified by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs before the nation gains recognition as the latest ratifying state party.
Indonesia is one of 50 signatories to the treaty, which was first adopted on July 7, 2017, and entered into force on Jan. 22, 2021. The country also held the vice presidency in the conference to negotiate the TPNW, but the progress to ratify the legislation itself only picked up last year.
“The ratification of the TPNW is our concrete effort [...] to fulfill the constitutional mandate of maintaining world peace and international security,” Retno said in a video statement from Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday.
