The participants of Indonesia International Sustainability Forum 2024 (ISF 2024) are known to have reached almost 11,000 people. Seeing the high enthusiasm, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut B. Pandjaitan hopes that more and more young people will be interested in handling climate crisis issues, especially in Indonesia.

‘This is the second year of ISF and I am very happy that this event was successful and there were more participants than last year. This year there are almost 11,000 participants. Therefore, I hope that more young people will join and be interested in climate crisis management, join these issues, and later can also be like Deputy Rachmat (Deputy for Infrastructure and Transportation Coordination of the Coordinating Ministry for Marves) who has a big role in handling the climate crisis,’ said Luhut.

Luhut explained that with the success of ISF 2024, it is possible that next year's ISF will be held in a bigger location and even made into an annual event where participants will get a membership card.

‘We want to think of a bigger venue and a different location. Maybe this year at the JCC, and next year in Bali. So we will prepare everything, not only the preparation of the event, but also how we clean up Bali, including the tourists,’ he said.

‘So I would like us to echo this, we have a quality forum like this with also very good cooperation with Kadin Indonesia and all the teams involved, which maybe we will create a membership for this. So let's all unite together on this,’ Luhut explained.

Adding to Luhut, Deputy Rachmat revealed that ISF 2024 will be a concrete action of collaboration between developed and developing countries in overcoming the climate crisis. The ISF is expected to produce solutions that support the running of financial and non-financial levers (technology, human resources, policies and international collaboration) which are key to accelerating the realisation of sustainable growth.

‘This event has received high enthusiasm as more than 11,000 participants from more than 53 countries have registered. World leaders and international organisations, academics and sustainability activists took the time to attend ISF 2024. This year's attendance increased by more than 4x and the event was honoured to be attended by President Joko Widodo as well as several Ministers including Ministers from neighbouring countries. This means that our event is more and more considered an international event and we must maintain this and hold the next ISF better than this year,’ he explained.

Chairman of Kadin Indonesia, Arsjad Rasjid, at the same location emphasised that ISF 2024 is key in harnessing Indonesia's great potential in biodiversity and marine resources, strengthening the national economy, and encouraging regional economic growth with ASEAN in the global market.

‘Through ISF 2024, hopefully, investors will come in, jobs will be created. In addition, we want sustainability forums like this to not only be participated by big companies, but also involve MSMEs, because this is very important for our economy in the future. Kadin Indonesia will continue to encourage how to build an ecosystem so that everyone can work together,’ said Arsjad.

Adding to the Chairman of Kadin Indonesia, Vice Chairman of the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs, Investment and Foreign Affairs of Kadin Indonesia, Shinta W. Kamdani, highlighted the collaborative efforts between Kadin Indonesia and Kemenko Marves and other partners over the past year to support sustainability, in line with the Indonesia Emas 2045 Roadmap and whitepaper for the next government.

‘Kadin Indonesia has the Golden Indonesia 2045 Roadmap, and one of the main pillars is sustainability. We have also prepared a more detailed whitepaper that will be submitted to the government for the 2024-2029 period. This ISF 2024 event is expected to produce substance that will help us formulate the whitepaper more concretely to the government,’ said Shinta.

The event was also attended by ISF 2024 Advocates namely Chelsea Islan, Dion Wiyoko and Lady Diandra who called for the importance of the younger generation to participate in handling climate crisis issues, especially in Indonesia.