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The United Nations Day this year raised the theme ‘Indonesian heritage for global peace and sustainable development. Culture is an important part of the sustainable development goals in the UN agenda. This was said by Director and representative of UNESCO, Regional science bureau for Asia and Pacific Shahbaz Khan in his opening remark on the United Nations Day which was held at the Indonesian National Library on Monday, December 2, 2019.

“Sustainable development goals is not an easy task for all of us to reach them by 2030. We need decent work, we need sustainable cities, we need to reduce social inequality which are part of the 2030 agenda and very importantly is how to take care of environment, gender, and we have peaceful society and prosperous society. So sustainable development goals there are 17 of them and for me culture is the most important part from all of those goals. If we have reduce poverty maybe culture play very important role in creating creative industries. So we need to have good education where culture and education should be integrated together. And similarly with environment we cannot do it without culture so all of them is very important as culture is critical to achieved and effective of the implementation of SDG, Shahbaz Khan said. 

Shahbaz Khan added that once giving acknowledgement from UNESCO, a culture is automatically will become the world heritage that can be accessed not only by Indonesian people. The Indonesia leadership can give a model of sustainable development and peace through UNESCO. (VOI/NK/Trs.N/AHM)