Wahyu Dwi Anggoro
IDXChannel - British Embassy Jakarta and the United Kingdom (UK) Mission to ASEAN have hosted a Southeast Asia regional launch of a new UK Government approach to global development partnerships.
This approach is set out in a White Paper entitled “International Development in a Contested World: ending extreme poverty and tackling climate change”.
It sets out a re-energised agenda for the UK working with partners, including Southeast Asian countries and ASEAN, to accelerate progress on eliminating extreme poverty, tackling climate change and biodiversity loss, and accelerating progress on the SDGs by 2030.
Held in Jakarta on Monday (11/12/2023), the launch was hosted by the British Ambassador to Indonesia Dominic Jermey and UK Ambassador to ASEAN Sarah Tiffin and attended by senior representatives from Indonesian and regional Governments, ASEAN Secretariat, development partners, Non-Governmental Organisations and business.
“Indonesia and Southeast Asia are at the heart of global progress towards sustainable, resilient growth. The UK’s new White Paper on International Development affirms that tackling today’s global challenges and getting the Sustainable Development Goals back on track requires partnership in an integrated approach: there is no way to secure broad-based economic growth without simultaneously tackling climate change and biodiversity loss," British Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor-Leste Dominic Jermey said in a media release.
