The two ministers who have both recently assumed their posts congratulated each other. They shared the view that there were still many avenues for further enhancing the currently good relations between Germany and Indonesia, in particular in the economic sector.
The Indonesian Foreign Minister said that Germany was not only an important trade partner for Indonesia, but it also represented one of the main investment resources of Indonesia from Europe.
The two Foreign Ministers also agreed in the importance of cooperation in the environment sector. In this vein, Indonesia will voluntarily reduce the emission by 26% by 2020.
The Signing of the MoU
During the visit of President of Indonesia to Germany, the both countries also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) concerning cooperation in the “Clean Development Mechanism Project Activities” (CDM) on 15 December 2009 at the German Ministry for Environment, Conservation of Nature and Nuclear Safety.
The MOU intended to enhance cooperation in the environment sector was signed by the Minister for Environment, Gusti Muhammad Hatta for Indonesia and for Germany by State Secretary Ursula Heinen-Esser of the German environment ministry.
With the signing of the MOU, the two sides will begin cooperation in the form of exchange of information in the fields of renewable and efficient energies, in project assessment, including procedures and implementation of CDM projects, in the mechanism and methodology for the determination of basic emission values and in monitoring and verification of the decrease of greenhouse gases, as well as in concrete CDM projects in accordance with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol and other relevant decisions.
The signing of the MOU is hoped to accelerate other cooperation in the environment sector in the protection of the climate as well as in biological diversity in the two countries. (Indonesian Embassy In Berlin)
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