The grassroots movement, established in July 2019, is demanding the Indonesian government declare a climate emergency and to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2025.
The Low Carbon Development Indonesia (LCDI) aims to advance the transition to renewable sources and reducing dependency on filthy coal. It aims to increase the share of renewables in the sun-kissed archipelago from 8 per cent last year to 23 per cent in 2030 and 30 per cent by 2045.
Indonesia’s only glaciers in Papua province would disappear in less than a decade due to the climate crisis, according to a study led by Professor Lonnie Thompson at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Centre at the Ohio State University.
The glaciers near Puncak Jaya (pictured) on the western half of the giant island of New Guinea had been melting for years, Thompson said.
