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(Left-Right) Dion Wiyoko, ISF 2024 Advocate, Actor, UNICEF Indonesia Clean and Healthy Generation Ambassador; Shinta W. Kamdani, Deputy General Chair, Coordinator for Maritime Affairs, Investment and Foreign Affairs, Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Arsjad Rasjid, General Chair of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Luhut B. Pandjaitan, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment; Rachmat Kaimuddin, Deputy for Infrastructure and Transportation Coordination, Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment; Chelsea Islan, ISF 2024 Advocate, Actress, Entrepreneur & UNDP Indonesia SDG Mover; and Lady Diandra, ISF 2024 Advocate, Puteri Indonesia Intelegensia 2024, Sustainability Issue Practitioner and Consultant at the Indonesia International Sustainable Forum 2024 press conference (Thursday, September 5 2024), (Photo : NK-VOI) - 

VOInews, Jakarta : It is known that almost 11,000 participants in the Indonesia International Sustainability Forum 2024 (ISF 2024) are known. Seeing this high level of enthusiasm, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut B. Pandjaitan hopes that more and more young people will be more interested in handling climate crisis issues, especially in Indonesia.

"This is the second year of ISF and I am very happy that this event was successful and that there were far more participants who registered than last year. This year there were almost 11,000 participants. Therefore, I hope that more young people will join and be more interested in dealing with the climate crisis, join in on these issues, and in the future can also become like Deputy Rachmat (Deputy for Infrastructure and Transportation Coordination at the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries) who has a role "is big in handling the climate crisis," said Coordinating Minister Luhut.

Coordinating Minister Luhut explained, with the success of ISF 2024, it does not rule out the possibility that next year's ISF will be held in a larger location and even become an annual event where participants will then receive membership/membership cards.

“We want to think in bigger locations and different locations. Maybe this year at the JCC, and next year in Bali. "So we will prepare everything, not only the preparation for the event, but also how we will tidy up Bali, including the tourists," he said.

"So I entrust us to echo this, we have a quality forum like this with very good cooperation with the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and all the teams involved, which we may later create a membership for this. "So let's all unite together on this," explained Coordinating Minister Luhut.

Adding to Coordinating Minister Luhut, Deputy Rachmat revealed that ISF 2024 will be a real action of collaboration between developed and developing countries in overcoming the climate crisis. It is hoped that ISF will produce solutions that support the operation of financial and non-financial levers on technology, human resources, policy and international collaboration which are the key to accelerating the realization of sustainable growth.

Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Arsjad Rasjid, at the same location emphasized that ISF 2024 is the key to exploiting Indonesia's great potential in the field of biodiversity and marine resources, strengthening the national economy, and encouraging regional economic growth with ASEAN in the global market.

"Through ISF 2024, the hope is that investors will come in and jobs will be created. Apart from that, we want sustainability forums like this not only to be attended by large companies, but also to involve MSMEs, because this is very important for our economy in the future. "The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry will continue to encourage how to build an ecosystem so that everyone can work together," said Arsjad.

Meanwhile the General Chairperson of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Deputy General Chairperson of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce's Maritime, Investment and Foreign Affairs Coordinator, Shinta W. Kamdani, highlighted the collaborative efforts between the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment and other partners over the past year to support sustainability, in line with the Golden Indonesia Road Map 2045 and whitepaper for the next government.

"The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has a Golden Indonesia Road Map 2045, and one of the main pillars is sustainability. We have also prepared a more detailed white paper which will be submitted to the government for the 2024-2029 period. In this ISF 2024 event, it is hoped that we can produce substance that will "help us formulate the white paper more concretely for the government," said Shinta.

This event was also attended by ISF 2024 Advocates, namely Chelsea Islan, Dion Wiyoko and Lady Diandra who called for the importance of the younger generation participating in handling climate crisis issues, especially in Indonesia//VOI