Last week during the EU Climate Diplomacy Week 2022, an event took place in Jakarta, Indonesia, including a Sept. 30 sidelines event, at which diplomats from the U.S. and Japan, with backing from Britain (as host of last year’s COP26), pushed Indonesia on planning to exit coal. Their push is part of the G7’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) which made Indonesia a target at the June G7 Summit in Germany this year. The G7 has targeted South Africa and Indonesia with this economic wrecking ball plan.
The Sept. 30 sidelines meeting was commented upon by the German Ambassador Ina Lepel who told the Jakarta Globe that the JETP “is currently under negotiation. We [Germany] are not the ones negotiating it. The U.S. and Japan are taking the lead in the negotiations. They keep us informed that they are negotiating with the Indonesian government.” Germany is currently chair of the G7.
The Jakarta Globe reports that at the Oct. 31-Nov 13, 2021 COP26 in Glasgow, U.S., U.K., France, Germany and the EU made a pledge to mobilize $8.5 billion for South Africa to go green and exit coal under the JETP, and in addition to Indonesia, the priority targets for the JETP are also India, Vietnam and Senegal.
Germany is in the game with its “Green Infrastructure Initiative” in Indonesia, described by Lepel as in the early stages, but with pre-feasiblity studies in six priority areas. They involve pollution, dirty water, and traffic congestion, among others.
