KNews.id- Indonesia is currently at the world’s main table, along with the G20 Presidency for the first time. This should be a historic moment where Indonesia can make its mark in the world. However, it seems that Indonesia prefers to pass up this opportunity.
The G20 is an international forum that focuses on policy coordination in the economic and development fields. However, it is not impossible for Indonesia to take any initiative regarding what is happening at this time, which is perhaps the most vital one related to the international world, namely the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Unfortunately, Indonesia chose to remain silent.
“Indonesia, like its neighbors Singapore and the Philippines, chose to support the UN’s decision to criticize Russia. However, Indonesia is not trying to take advantage of its current place to gather almost all of the G20 members to take a stand against the Russian invasion,” said Philip Bowring, founder and editor of consultancy Asia Sentinel, in his article published today, Wednesday (16/3).
Indonesia is currently at the world’s main table, along with the G20 Presidency for the first time. This should be a historic moment where Indonesia can make its mark in the world. However, it seems that Indonesia prefers to pass up this opportunity.The G20 is an international forum that focuses on policy coordination in the economic and development fields. However, it is not impossible for Indonesia to take any initiative regarding what is happening at this time, which is perhaps the most vital one related to the international world, namely the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Unfortunately, Indonesia chose to remain silent.
“Indonesia, like its neighbors Singapore and the Philippines, chose to support the UN’s decision to criticize Russia. However, Indonesia is not trying to take advantage of its current place to gather almost all of the G20 members to take a stand against the Russian invasion,” said Philip Bowring, founder and editor of consultancy Asia Sentinel, in his article published today, Wednesday (16/3).
The Russian invasion not only threatened and disrupted trade in key commodities such as wheat, fuel and nickel, he said. The Russian invasion also caused a breakdown in the supply chains that served all kinds of industries including the laptop chips that were essential to many industries and briefly provided even earlier than the Russian movement.Russia provides the European Union with 40 percent of its pure fuels, 27 percent of its oil imports and 40 percent of its coal imports. Ukraine exports a third of the world’s grain.
When the two countries go to war, the disruption of these provisions will bring great financial danger to the world.Indonesia, the only member of Southeast Asia with 300 million individuals, is highly dependent on world trade. Indonesia has an obligation to voice its aspirations and bring the topic of Invasion to the G20 table, instead of separating the forum from the issue of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
“Russia is one of the member countries in the forum, Indonesia is considered to be able to take advantage of its role as President of the G20 to seek peaceful mediation between the two countries,” said Bowring.Bowring’s comments follow Indonesia’s statement that the Indonesian G20 Presidency will remain focused on three main agendas, namely the global health architecture, digital transformation, and energy transition, without dragging the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
“The G20 is indeed targeted at financial, not political points. Maybe it can be a subject of discussion that the question of Russia’s threatening actions, is nothing less than international financial losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” he said, adding that Indonesia’s own presentation through the G20 website shows tourism promotion as something more important.
“President Joko Widodo aspires to become a global figure who represents a great and democratic nation, but seems to have little thought of how to make it happen,” said Bowring.According to him, Jokowi is indifferent, indifferent and tends to be cowardly with hot issues that have a huge impact on the world. Jokowi is only concerned with trivial and trivial matters.“Ukraine is just the latest case. Jakarta covered his head with sand as he sat in the G20 presidency, which should be used to take on important functions in world and even Asian affairs,” he stressed. (AHM)
