Civil society organizations from Europe and Indonesia ask:
● The EU and the Indonesian government should stop the Indonesia-EU CEPA
negotiations, because the agreement poses a threat to the environment and climate,
and to the rights of women, Indigenous Peoples, workers, small farmers and fisherfolk.
● Indonesia should retain the policy space to develop its own energy and raw materials
value chain, including processing and refining capabilities. The Energy and Raw
Materials Chapters in the CEPA would limit Indonesia’s ability to protect its internal
market through (temporary) tariffs and quotas and to build up its own manufacturing
capacities.
● A just energy transition cannot be achieved by privatizing public goods, in this case
energy. Public control through the state should be strengthened and not weakened by
the liberalization agenda in the renewable energy sector.
● The EU and Indonesia should not agree to any Investor-State Dispute Settlement
(ISDS) mechanism, such as in the EU agreements with Mexico and Chile. Investment
protection, including the Investment Court System (ICS), potentially undermines the
state’s capacity to respond to public demands to implement a socially just climate policy.
● The Indonesia-EU CEPA should not integrate elements from the Indonesian “Omnibus
Law on Job Creation”
1 as this makes human rights and labor protection in Indonesia
worse. Both the EU and Indonesia must adhere to internationally agreed ILO-standards
and conventions.
● Trade cooperation must ensure that the traded raw materials have been produced under
the highest environmental and due diligence standards. Social and environmental
impact assessments need to be mandatory for every mining or energy generation
project. The rights of communities affected by mining for critical raw materials must be
strengthened and those rights must be taken into account from the outset in the
planning and implementation of any projects. Indigenous communities’ free, prior and
informed consent (FPIC) must be ensured and their decisions respected.
● The EU should reduce its own materials footprint to stay within planetary boundaries
and to reduce dependence on resources from other countries such as Indonesia. The
EU should commit to reducing critical raw materials consumption by setting targets to
reduce consumption through sufficiency measures, material efficiency, responsible
design, and substitution technologies.
Read More: Civil Society Statement on raw materials in EU-Indonesia CEPA