Strategically Financing SDGs Gap
Indonesia is identified internationally as among the exemplary models in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). National and local stakeholders refer to the presidential decree on SDGs implementation; in which all governors, regents and mayors must follow the national structure in implementing inclusiveness and principle of leaving no one behind. However, achieving the ambitious targets of the SDGs requires financing at an unprecedented scale that the state budget cannot fulfil. Fortunately, Indonesia had gained a great opportunity to present SDGs investment plans and projects to potential institutional investors, investment and development banks, funds and assets managers, as well as philanthropists at the SDG Investment Fair (SDGI Fair) in New York, the United States, running from April 15 to 17. Indonesia was selected following a study by Voluntary National Reviews presented in 2016 and 2017 at the United Nations high level forum on sustainable development. Based on ...