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Poland 'keen' to participate in G20 during RI presidency
Poland has expressed enthusiasm for Indonesia's upcoming G20 presidency and participating as a dialogue partner by sharing Warsaw's experiences in renewables and digital governance.
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Polish Ambassador to Indonesia Beata Stoczynska opens a screening of short films on Sept. 23, 2018 in Jakarta as part of the European Union's Climate Diplomacy Week. (The Jakarta Post/Veeramalla Anjaiah)
Poland has said it welcomes Indonesia’s leadership of the Group of Twenty (G20) next year, saying it expected to be a dialog partner on several key issues such as sustainable energy and the digital economy.
Polish Ambassador to Indonesia Beata Stoczynska told a press briefing last Tuesday that the world’s 21st largest economy could contribute to the G20 by sharing its experiences, which represented a uniquely Central European perspective.
“We hope that the Indonesian government will invite Poland as a special guest or working partner during its presidency of the G20,” Stockzynska told journalists at the embassy in Jakarta.
Given that Indonesia and Poland shared many common issues, the two countries could work together to identify key issues and agendas for promoting during Indonesia’s G20 presidency, she said.
The Polish Embassy’s political and economic officer Michal Weglarz said that Warsaw country could collaborate with Jakarta on three specific issues: taxation, digital governance and climate change.
“In the past three decades, Poland has managed to grow [its economy] while at the same time, reducing its carbon emissions,” Weglarz said. He added that Poland could share its knowledge on how to phase out coal, seeing that Indonesia had pledged to wean itself off coal and to become carbon neutral by 2060.
“Poland continues its transformation from coal to a renewables-based economy. The current share of RES [renewable energy sources] in Poland’s energy mix is 15 percent, and it plans to [achieve] 28.5 percent by 2040,” the embassy said in a statement.
As regards taxation, Poland could share its experience in initiating value-added-tax (VAT) mechanisms dubbed “VAT compact” and “VAT fraud” to support international cooperation in combating tax fraud, the statement said.
On the digital economy, Weglarz said Poland had developed cloud computing security standards and continued to provide e-government and e-health services.
“We have an app called mObywatel to confirm identity and ProteGO for contact tracing,” he said.
