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The Role of Young People in Reducing the Impact of Climate Change Through the Plan International Indonesia Foundation's Urban Nexus Program - Indonesia | ReliefWeb
I. Objective Conditions
Indonesia is in a strategic position to play a key role in the issue of climate change, which has developed into a global climate crisis.
As an archipelagic country, Indonesia is in a position that is vulnerable to the effects of global climate change and is also strengthened by various disaster events from natural and environmental hazards due to human influence. On the other hand, the country has natural capital, such as vast forest and wetlands ecosystems and seas, that function as carbon sequestration to help the world reduce the disastrous impact of global climate change. As future leaders, young people will determine national climate change policies, strategies, programs, and the country's global commitment.
Director of Environmental Partnerships at the Directorate General of Social Forestry of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) Jo Kumala Dewi also acknowledged the importance of Indonesian youth facing climate change so that the Ministry will integrate various programs targeting youth into the plans of the MoEF. "Young people must be the main actors. They must be the main ingredient in climate change issues," she said.
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