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Indonesia calls for rejuvenated UN for successful SDGs
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Against poverty – A woman carries out her daily chores at her house in Citeureup, Bogor regency, West Java, on Oct.24. The Bogor Development and Planning Agency (Bappeda) records 392,000, 7.2 percent, of a total of 5.4 million people living in the regency are very poor. (Antara/Yulius Satria Wijaya)
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oreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi has said the UN's central role in ensuring the successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires new methods, in which it should adapt to the global new realities and challenges.
“The UN needs to embrace new methods of work that will safeguard its important targets, such as the successful implementation of the SDGs," Retno said in her opening remarks during the 71st commemoration of UN Day in Jakarta on Monday.
The minister called on the UN to mainstream the SDGs and their targets in all activities and the work of committees, agencies and related bodies under the UN system and to adapt to current conditions.
Retno further said the global organization must also adopt an approach based on need assessments. It was critical for the UN to enhance capacity in developing countries to translate the goals into workable and implementable policies on the ground, she added.
“If we succeed in reaching the goals by 2030, it will be the most important achievement of our generation, which will benefit not only our neighbors, community and our country, but most importantly, it will bring benefits to humanity,” Retno said.
She further said Indonesia would continue to contribute to the promotion of global peace and prosperity, noting that the country was currently the 11th largest contributor of UN peacekeepers, with more than 2,800 personnel deployed on 10 missions.
During the event, Retno also conveyed Indonesia's candidacy for a 2019-2020 non-permanent UN Security Council seat to the audience, which consisted of officials from the 24 UN agencies in Jakarta and foreign ambassadors to Indonesia. (ebf)
