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The Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry through the Directorate General of Climate Change Control holds a hydroflorocarbon or HFC workshop in the framework of implementing the Montreal protocol in Jakarta Thursday. The Montreal Protocol is one of the international agreements in the field of Environment that aims to protect the ozone layer. Indonesia has ratified the Montreal protocol since 1992. This activity is carried out to socialize companies that use Hydro chloro Fluoro Carbon or HCFCs in refrigerators such as air conditioners, refrigerators and other refrigerators to convert them to Hydro Fluoro Carbon or HFCs that are more ozone-friendly . After the event, the Director General of Climate Change Control, Ruandha Agung Sugardiman explained, Indonesia still had three years to inventory their needs so that it could carry out simulations and modeling.

"We from the Ministry of Forestry and Environment have opened a workshop on HFC enabling activities, essentially how we prepare ourselves in order to ratify the Montreal protocol better known as the Kigali Amendment. Because it has been changed several times as there are new elements which will be reduced from this ozone-depleting material. Therefore there are still three years until 2023. So we carry out an inventory of our needs 2020, 2021,2023 so that we can do simulations, modeling which industries need to be high," said Ruandha.

Ruandha added, the success of the Montreal protocol in reducing the consumption of ozone depleting substances (ODS) has been very significant. Indonesia also contributes by reducing the consumption of BPO especially HCFC types from 2013 to 2018 by 124.36 tons of Ozone Depleting Substances or ODP. This achievement was due to the conversion of BPO types of HCFCs with alternatives that are more Ozone-friendly and also friendly to climate change known as BROCCOLI or free of bromine, chlorine and pro-climate. (voi / nk)