🔴 KTT Archipelagic and Island States Forum, Bali, 11 Oktober 2023

["Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech"] Good morning, Excellencies. We will commence the photo session. Allow me to count in 3, 2, 1. Once again, in 3, 2, 1. Thank you, Excellencies. We now invite all leaders and head of delegation to proceed to the meeting room. Thank you. Leaders of the high-level meeting of the AIS Forum entering the venue. Excellencies, please be seated. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, good morning and welcome to the first high-level meeting of the Archipelagic and Island States Forum. The meeting will start with a short video of the AIS Forum. ["Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech"] As a platform for collaboration, AIS Forum is committed to initiating strategic solutions that deliver direct impact on the environment. AIS countries share similar marine environment issues. Our concrete actions focus on providing solutions to the most pressing issues, involving strategic partners to collectively combat these challenges. With this, we foster the spirit of solidarity into a variety of programs in four key areas. We aim to provide research opportunities for academics to tackle the issues AIS countries face. We are committed to initiating a strategic financing framework, disseminating information, and involving the public in open dialogue to select relevant projects. We have connected entrepreneurship, expanding startup ecosystems, grown together, and captured new market share mainly for archipelagic and island state countries. We believe that multicultural cooperation and collaboration are the keys to scaling of concrete actions, driven by the role of multiple stakeholders and youth to achieve SDGs in AIS countries. The success of the AIS Forum depends on horizontal relationships forged by equality. We need to do it on a massive scale and collective contributions from the government to civil society to provide smart and innovative solutions for significant action together. Because as an islander, you are part of the action, fostering collaboration, enabling innovation for our ocean and our future. The meeting will now continue. Chaired by the President of the Republic of Indonesia, His Excellency, Mr. Joko Widodo. Excellency, the floor is yours. Good morning, Honorable Leaders and Chairpersons of the AIS Forum, Leaders and Delegates of international organizations, Welcome to Bali. Indonesia is honored to be the host of the first ever AIS Forum, a forum for strengthening collaboration between archipelagic and island states connected by the sea. The sea is not an inter-terrestrial separation, but rather an inter-terrestrial unification. The sea is an inter-terrestrial connection. As archipelagic and island states, regardless of their size, progress, or development, we share the same complex challenges that are inter-connected and inter-connected with each other, such as sea level rise, management of sea resources, and sea pollution. If we throw garbage in the sea, it will not necessarily move to the other side of the world. But if we throw garbage in the sea, the garbage can reach anywhere in the world. Therefore, the collaboration and solidarity between archipelagic and island states is very important to produce concrete and tactical strategic steps in solving the same problem. KTT-AIS is an important opportunity to set the direction of future collaboration, where there are three things that we need to encourage. First, solidarity, equality, and inclusivity are principles that form a common ground. Second, the priority is concrete cooperation that meets the needs of the recipients. Third, we need a robust and dynamic cooperation framework to face future challenges. Lastly, the importance of archipelagic states and the importance of developing states should be consistently voiced by Indonesia, both at KTTG 20 years ago and at KTT ASEAN, and at KTT AIS this year. Indonesia is also committed to prepare funds to be used for the interests of archipelagic states and developing states. And Indonesia would like to invite all present countries to continue to choose to continue to pursue unity and continue to pursue collaboration, even in the midst of divided world conditions. Let us work and work together. And with this, I declare the first KTT to open the forum for archipelagic states and archipelagic states. Next, before we start the plenum session, which will be held in a closed manner, with all due respect, I would like to invite Medea to leave the meeting room. Thank you. Be brave to take a step. Be brave to have a big agenda for the development of our country, for the development of the nation.