The very first Sherpas’ meeting will be utilized to set the agenda of the Presidency, discuss the scheduled meetings, and begin working on deliverables
Jakarta – Activities under Indonesia’s G20 Presidency will start on December 7 and 8, 2021 with the very first Sherpas’ meeting, Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno LP Marsudi said during a rundown with foreign mediapersons on Friday.
” The first Sherpas’ meeting will be used to set the agenda of the Presidency, discuss the organized conferences, and start dealing with deliverables,” Marsudi revealed at the rundown, according to a written declaration released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and gotten here on Friday.
To accomplish its goals, the G20 Forum holds tiered meetings that follow 2 tracks, namely the Financing Track and the Sherpa Track.
The Financing Track, which will be coordinated by the Ministry of Financing and the central bank, will concentrate on macroeconomic, financial, monetary and financial issues, Marsudi stated.
Discussions related to the financial track are carried out from the working group level to the level of the Minister of Finance and the Guv of the reserve bank, she added.
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The Sherpa Track, which will be coordinated by the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will focus on talking about locations of non-financial cooperation, the minister notified.
The non-financial areas will include development, education, health, employment, energy, environment and climate change, farming, digital economy, anti-corruption, trade-investment-industry, tourist, and women’s empowerment, she stated.
” To enhance the conversation (at the Online Forum), Indonesia will invite prominent speakers who will share insights on the global health outlook as well as worldwide financial outlook,” Marsudi mentioned.
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The Indonesian Presidency will have 11 working groups and 1 effort under the Sherpa Track, she revealed.
The working groups will focus on 11 fields: 1) agriculture, 2) anti-corruption, 3) development, 4) trade-industry-investment, 5) education, 6) employment, 7) energy shift, 8) environment and environment, 9) health, 10) tourism, and 11) digital economy.
” I must highlight this will be the very first time for digital economy to have a dedicated working group dealing with the issue of digitalization,” Marsudi explained.
” On the problem of women’s empowerment, we will have the EMPOWER initiative,” she included.
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The working groups, which will cover the governmental component of the G20, the Indonesian Presidency will have 10 engagement groups that will be involved in non-governmental meetings, she said.
” In the Italian Presidency, there were 8 engagement groups. Now, there will be two additional engagement groups under the Indonesian Presidency: Supreme Audit Organization 20, or SAI-20, and the Parliament 20, or P-20 forum,” Marsudi added.
She even more stated that Indonesia is honored to hold the Presidency of G20 for 2022.
” We will work as tough as we can to assume this responsibility and bring benefit not just for the G20 however also to establishing and least developed countries,” Marsudi said.
” Collaborating is crucial to recuperating together and recuperating stronger,” she added. (INE)
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