Low Carbon Development

KOMPAS/HERU SRI KUMORO

Haze due to land fires blankets Syamsudin Noor Airport, Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan, at 5:47 a.m. of the Central Indonesian Standard Time on Wednesday (26/09/2018). A number of airlines were forced to experience flight delays due to the haze.

Development Indonesia has achieved significant progress over the last several years, marked by improving economic growth of 5.2 percent in the first half of 2018, poverty rate that continued to decline to 9.82 percent (March, 2018), and reduction in inequality as measured by the improvement in the Gini ratio which reached 0.389 (March, 2018).

However, we must not be satisfied with these achievements because in the long run we will still face various development challenges. As we understand, so far Indonesia\'s development still depends on the exploitation of resources that are not sustainable and have not taken into account the factors or costs of environmental damage in determining economic growth.