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Given the overall deterioration of the international order and climate commitments we all witnessed last year, diplomatic actors across the globe, including Indonesia, must prevent further backsliding in both areas in 2026.
Indonesia’s latest climate pledge has drawn criticism for not showing strong commitment to cutting emissions and transitioning away from fossil fuels amid calls for the government to do more on the issue ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Brazil next month.
During a meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Jakarta, President Prabowo Subianto apologized for missing the COP30 climate change conference in Brazil, but promised to send a strong delegation to support climate initiatives conveyed in the summit.
The government missed the September deadline to submit the new climate pledge ahead of the Brazil climate summit in November, but claimed that the new commitment would be more ambitious than the last one submitted in 2022.
Brazil, which will host the United Nations climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem in November, was among the first to update its NDCs a year ago. But many others have missed even the latest September deadline, amid geopolitical and trade tensions that have distracted from climate action.
The government’s ongoing food estate project has drawn criticism for environmental damage that could undermine Indonesia’s climate commitments, as the initiative requires large-scale land and forest clearance despite past failures in achieving food self-sufficiency
