Jokowi: 'The World is Heading Towards Climate Hell'

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - President Joko Widodo or Jokowi warned that the world is headed for a “climate hell” and the global temperature will reach its highest point. 

Jokowi quoted remarks by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a keynote speech in New York earlier this month. Guterres alluded to new data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) showing there is an 80 percent chance the planet will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in warming above pre-industrial times in at least one of the next five calendar years.

Global temperatures averaged 1.63 degrees Celsius (2.9 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the pre-industrial average from June 2023 to May this year, according to the European Union's Copernicus monitoring system.

"Be careful. We have experienced a heat wave in the past year. In India, (air temperature) even reached 50 degrees (Celsius) and 45.8 degrees in Myanmar, it’s scorching hot," said Jokowi on Friday. June 14, 2024.

Jokowi highlighted the climate impact on food, saying that the government is anticipating the impact considering more than 50 million farmers are expected to lack access to water.

In the same speech, the government announced that Indonesia's inflation was now at 2.84 percent. The government projects that economic growth in 2024 will surpass 5 percent, supported by the controlled inflation rate. In 2023, Indonesia’s inflation rate remained stable at 2.61 percent y-o-y with a target range of 3.1 percent. 

Last year, Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation was under control, but volatile food (VF) inflation was still quite high. Meanwhile, core inflation and administered prices (AP) decreased with the food commodities as the main contributors to inflation last year were rice at 0.53 percent and red chilies at 0.24 percent.

DANIEL A. FAJRI

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