We, the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) stand in solidarity with the Indonesian people who are being deprived of their rights to free speech and assembly at a time when G20 governments urgently need to hear voices of people most impacted by the multiple economic, health and climate crises.
G20 leaders arrive in Bali, Indonesia, for the 17th Summit, with the motto of “Re covering Together, Recovering Stronger”. But civil society calls are ignored and worse, silenced through security regulations that curtail basic rights to freedom of expression. These are rights enshrined in the Indonesian Constitution and rights that the Government of Indonesia is obligated to fulfill as a state party to the International Convention of Civil and Political Rights, and other core treaties.
In the face of deepening multiple crises and flawed, failed solutions, the G20 governments continue to pursue an agenda that forebodes more suffering for millions of people already burdened by debt, climate and fiscal injustices.
G20 countries are among the world’s highest emitters of the GHGs that exacer bate the climate emergency and the biggest financiers of the fossil fuel industry. They evade responsibility in mobilizing climate finance; peddle false solutions to the climate and debt catastrophe; and persist in protecting multinational cor porations and wealthy elites from paying their revenue share.
We remain one with the Indonesian people and all peoples of the global south resisting the G7/G20, fighting against political repression and for basic rights, and demanding:
– Climate justice and reparations. Climate finance, not more loans! – End fossil fuel subsidies!
– Wealth taxes and a stop to illicit financial flows
– Immediate debt cancellation for unsustainable and illegitimate debt
