Catatan Kritis Trend Asia atas Debat Cawapres ke IV

Trend Asia criticizes the 2024 vice-presidential candidates for offering technical 'gimmicks' rather than substantive solutions for grassroots issues. The organization argues that the candidates' visions for energy transition and sustainable development remain rooted in extractivism, ignore the legal and social vulnerabilities of local communities, and rely on 'false solutions' like CCUS and geothermal energy while failing to address the structural causes of the climate crisis and the harms of the coal industry.

• The vice-presidential candidates' proposed solutions for sustainable development fail to address grassroots issues and the impacts of extractive industries, such as the increase in poverty in Southeast Sulawesi despite nickel downstreaming, where poverty rose from 11.27% in September 2022 to 11.43% in March 2023.
• There is a significant lack of legal enforcement and transparency regarding legal companies, exemplified by the fact that 29% of fire hotspots in the 2023 forest and land fires occurred in Energy Plant Forests (HTE) owned by legal companies, including the state-owned Perhutani.
• The candidates narrow the scope of agrarian reform to land legalization, ignoring land grabbing for National Strategic Projects (PSN) and the failure of the Jokowi administration to meet its land distribution target, achieving only 1.6 million hectares of its 9 million hectare goal.
• The proposed energy transition is criticized for relying on 'false solutions' such as Carbon Capture Utilization & Storage (CCUS), which is described as expensive and ineffective with capture costs between US$ 50-100 per ton, and geothermal energy, which has caused water and heat pollution.
• The candidates failed to address the coal industry's role in ecological disasters and the continued use of coal through 'new energy' labels such as coal bed methane, coal liquefaction, and PLTU co-firing.
• The candidates demonstrate a lack of understanding regarding the structural causes of the climate crisis, treating it as a challenge and focusing narrowly on fertilizer procurement rather than the emissions from dirty energy that drive food insecurity.

APA

Trend Asia (2024). Catatan Kritis Trend Asia atas Debat Cawapres ke IV. https://trendasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Critical-Notes-Trend-Asia-atas-Debat-Cawapres-ke-IV.pdf

Chicago

Trend Asia. Catatan Kritis Trend Asia atas Debat Cawapres ke IV. 2024. https://trendasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Critical-Notes-Trend-Asia-atas-Debat-Cawapres-ke-IV.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{trendasia2024catatan, author = {{Trend Asia}}, title = {{Catatan Kritis Trend Asia atas Debat Cawapres ke IV}}, publisher = {Trend Asia}, year = {2024}, month = jan, url = {https://trendasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Critical-Notes-Trend-Asia-atas-Debat-Cawapres-ke-IV.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }