Source: The World Bank Date: 20 May 2021 Indonesia is battling one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time—marine plastic debris. To support the Government of Indonesia's efforts on combating plastic waste and marine debris and its leadership in implementing the agenda, a better underst...
A Sustainable Ocean Economy is Key to Indonesia’s Prosperity
Source: World BankDate: March 25, 2021 For Indonesia, oceans are vital for its economy and welfare. With more than 17,500 islands and three-quarters of its territory at sea, oceans are central to Indonesia's prosperity. Yet, Indonesia's marine and coastal ecosystems and their economic value are unde...
What do we need to boost water supply resilience in Indonesia? A risk-based mindset
Source: The World BankDate: February 26, 2021 Nestled in a narrow valley in the center of Java Island, Magelang City is surrounded by rivers and steep mountain slopes. Its location makes it highly exposed to natural hazards, particularly floods, earthquakes, and landslides. When a 2008 landslid...
Ports and Nature-based Solutions: An Overview of 12+1 Financial Instruments
Source: Water Science PolicyDate: 31 January 2021 A variety of nature-based and hybrid solutions are available to build sustainable value in and around ports.Financiers and investors are willing to jump in, but diffused benefits and a lack of hard and enforceable cashflows prevent uptake at scale12+...
Here's how we can reduce emissions from the shipping industry
Source: World Economic Forum Date: 23 October 2020 The global shipping industry's annual greenhouse-gas emissions total more than one billion tons.Reducing them is critical in the fight against climate change.Former President of Costa Rica José María Figueres writes that shrinking emissio...
The Neglected Water and Sanitation Crisis
Source: The ASEAN Post Date: 10 September 2020 The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the importance of access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene. As we all know now, hand washing is one of the best frontline defenses against the virus. Yet three billion people – almost half of the world'...
Indonesia Public Expenditure Review: Spending for Better Results
Source: The World Bank Date: 22 June 2020 The Indonesia Public Expenditure Review (PER) aims to support the Government of Indonesia in identifying key constraints to efficient and effective public spending and offer ways to improve the spending quality to achieve Indonesia's development objecti...
2020 Blue Economy Report: Blue sectors contribute to the recovery and pave way for EU Green Deal
Today, the European Commission published "The EU Blue Economy Report 2020", providing an overview of the performance of the EU economic sectors related to oceans and the coastal environment. With a turnover of €750 billion in 2018, the EU blue economy is in good health. There were also 5 million peo...
Indonesia and Netherlands's Water Cooperation through Healthy River Challenge
Jakarta - A Joint Steering Committee Meeting on the bilateral cooperation between Indonesia and the Netherlands in the water sector was held on 9th March 2020. This bilateral cooperation has been transferred to the newly signed MoU on water management, circular economy, and water quality. One ...
Indonesia Maritime Outlook: Integrated Port Network
The material below was prepared and presented by Bapak Lukijanto from the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investments for Port Academy 2020. The presentation provided the participants and others with a deeper knowledge of what the role of the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs...
Asian Development Bank - Member Fact Sheet
In 2018, ADB committed $1.7 billion in sovereign loans to Indonesia. These loans covered four projects encompassing public expenditure management, economic competitiveness, emergency assistance, and higher education. ADB also committed $372.86 million in non-sovereign loans to the private secto...
Publication: Blue book 2018 on EU-Indonesia; Development Cooperation
Indonesia has entered different, but better, atmosphere when joining the G20 train. After long mutual relationship as a traditional bilateral aid from EU, Indonesia then entering new phase with EU. Eu no longer gives development assistance to Indonesia for the 2014-2019 programming, but still r...