10 provinces strengthen cooperation in energy to waste management

Semarang - Ten provinces, including Central Java, have agreed to strengthen cooperation in three new collaboration clusters: energy resilience, giant sea wall (giant sea wall), and waste management.

The agreement was reached at the Working Meeting of the Forum for Inter-Regional Cooperation of Primary Partner Regions (FKD-MPU), held in Semarang City, Central Java, on Tuesday.

These three sectors add to the six collaboration clusters already jointly signed by the 10 governors in June 2025, namely food resilience, tourism, disaster management, public order, social welfare, and electronic-based public service systems (SPBE).

Central Java Governor Ahmad Luthfi stated that representatives from the ten provinces at this year’s working meeting have reached agreements in the context of development in their respective regions.

“I hope that upon returning to their respective areas, colleagues will immediately discuss the implications of the results of this working meeting. The output is that we can explore regions and collaborate between regions,” he said, while leading the FKD-MPU working meeting.

Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Bima Arya Sugiarto stated that the ten provinces in the FKD-MPU contribute 62 percent to national economic growth.

Therefore, he wants to see how far the follow-up on the six action plans agreed upon by the ten governors in 2025, and appreciates the proposals for new cooperation plans related to the energy and waste processing sectors.