The 2023 also marked parts of some big treaties initiated by the United Nations in 2015 namely Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Paris Agreement, and Addis Ababa Action Agenda on development funding. To evaluate global development and make new investments for every development, the UN in 2023 gathered stakeholders including during the COP 28. In this year, there were also innovations in the voices to reform international financial institutions and propose the Bridgetown Initiative - an action plan to reform the global financial system so the world could respond to current and future crises better.
Fossil fuel is the biggest issue in the COP 28 Dubai. For the first time, participating countries agreed on the need for transition from fossil fuel to eco-friendly energy.
Meanwhile the world kept experiencing drastic demographic changes. 2023 marked one whole year for planet Earth to house 8 billion people. And there are more youths right now than ever in history.
Some 80% of the youth in the future will be in Africa and Asia. Therefore, the countries in the regions need to prepare policies to face the challenge properly. The younger generation faces some challenges in education, health, and employment.
Indonesia has begun tasting the demographic bonus, where the productive age surpasses the non-productive one in 2015 and the peak is predicted to happen in 2030. By using the bonus optimally, Indonesia may reach 2045, during the nation's 100th anniversary, as the year of Golden Indonesia. Ahead of being one century old, Indonesian development would focus on four development pillars, namely manpower development and science & technology mastery; sustainable economic development; equal development, and national resilience and governance stabilization.
We wish 2024 will open the path to a hopeful future of a better situation. Happy new year!