InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Ministry of National Development Plans/National Development Plan Agency, Tanoto Foundation, and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) launched Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Academy Indonesia.
SDG Academy Indonesia is to develop the leadership character, the management capability, policy making, and the understanding to SDGs issues for the participants to give innovative solutions. For the institutions as the participants, SDG Academy Indonesia is hoped to increase the capacity to develop and influence the policies about SDGs and could implement its programs.
Besides the institution could increase and expand the collaboration among the organization and board about the SDGs issue. Ministry of National Development Plans/National Development Plan Agency, Bambang Brodjonegoro said that the government of Indonesia is very serious to realize and accelerate the sustainable development goals. So the government through his ministry and civil organizations and private sectors initiate SDG Academy Indonesia, as the program to develop the quality of human resources to increase the capacity of the stakeholders both the government and non-government in every region in Indonesia to localize the sustainable development goals. “SDGs Academy would be as the SDGs Knowledge Hub in Indonesia,” he recently said in the official statement to InfoSAWIT.
Meanwhile Anderson Tanoto of Tanoto Foundataion said that based on the inclusivity principle and ‘no one left behind’ from SDG, the development is our same responsibility. Tanoto Foundation would be as the catalyst partner, both with the government, private and other development partners to collaborate and realize the goals in SDG.
The Representative Head of UNDP Indonesia, Christophe Bahuet said that Indonesia has 11 years only to realize the SDGs. So it needs participation from the development actor in the government and non-government sectors.
But the access to knowledge for every development actors to localize the SDGs keeps being the challenges in the archipelago and wide countries, such as, Indonesia. SDG Acedemy would give the learning, curriculum, and innovative platform. “This is our response to fulfill the challenges to accelerate the progress to SDGs,” Christophe said.
Through the project, Riau would be the first province in Indonesia that launched Regional Action Plans about SDG in June 2018. Tanoto Foundation would take UNDP, Asian Agri, and District of Pelalawan in multi side-partnership to Sustainable Palm Oil Initiative program that led Asosiasi Amanah as the first independent smallholder group in Indonesia that got Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certificate.
SDG Academy Indonesia would give the chance to learn that covers direct meeting, and followed up by online learning and mobile device. The program would be given by the experts in Indonesia who have experiences in specific issues in SDGs, and the governance and policies. Besides there would be speakers from other countries that would discuss the topics based on their skills in SDG Academy.
There would be three program in SDG Academy Indonesia, they are, SDGs Certification Program (5 months), Mobile Learning Program (one year), and Study Abroad Program (5 months). The programs would cover the policy and governance, innovative solutions, and monitoring and reports. (T2)
