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View all search resultsMake-or-break time for Indonesia’s SDGs
The chances to achieve the goals will ultimately depend on the sheer politics that will play out in the coming months and years.
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M
eeting people’s aspirations while balancing the needs of the planet should not only be the overarching theme of the next Human Development Report, the flagship publication of the United Nations Development Program, to be released later this year.
It should also be the main goal of a country like Indonesia, which is not out of the woods in the fight against COVID-19 and hasn’t yet felt the long-term economic consequences of the pandemic.
As recently reported by this daily, the country is at risk of losing all the progress made in the last few years in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Agustaviano Sofjan, a senior official at the Foreign Ministry, said that the pandemic was a step back “in terms of achieving by 2030 the 17 economic, social and environmental goals stipulated in the SDGs”.
With the global economy entering one of the deepest recessions in modern history and the World Bank forecasting in its June 2020 Global Economic Prospects an “historic contraction of per capita income”, Indonesia is set to face of one the greatest challenges in its modern history.
Will the socioeconomic implications of the pandemic bulldoze what Indonesia has achieved so far in terms of the SDGs, or will the country instead be able to cushion the havoc, protect the most vulnerable segments of its population and reboot the economy sustainably?
The country proudly embraced the SDGs as a holistic opportunity for inclusive growth, setting up, at least on paper, an ambitious mechanism to coordinate the pursuit of the goals nationally and locally.
