New York (Antara Bali)- Vice President M Jusuf Kalla has stated Indonesia is fully committed to adopting sustainable development policy and has implemented it through social benefits cards for health and education.
"Indonesia provides full subsidies for Healthy Indonesia Card and Smart Indonesia Card for underprivileged community to get access to health services and education," M Jusuf Kalla said when delivering a speech at the UN Headquarters, here, Saturday.
Kalla was accompanied by Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Puan Maharani, Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi and Health Minister Yunita.
The Indonesian government has mainstreamed the post-2015 Agenda into its national development planning, Kalla remarked.
The new Agenda demands a strong and inclusive global partnership to support the means of implementation, while taking into account national circumstances and development priorities.
He also said the lessons learned from the Millennium Goals have shown that despite progress made, inequality among and within countries and poverty remained the main global challenges.
New challenges have appeared, including energy inequality, infrastructure gaps, unsustainable consumption, limitation in production and climate change.
Rising conflicts have also set many countries back in their development achievements. With that in mind, he said the 2015 Agenda remained unfinished.
Indonesia has surpassed the goal of halving the percentage of population living in poverty and is on track to reducing the prevalence of underweight children and child mortality below age 5 and increasing primary education enrollment. (WDY)
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