Jakarta, Oct. 21 -- Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq highlighted Indonesia's progress toward ecological sovereignty, including the handling of radioactive Cesium-137 in Cikande and ongoing waste management initiatives.

In a statement issued in Jakarta on Tuesday, Nurofiq said President Prabowo and Vice President Gibran's first year in office had demonstrated concrete progress toward achieving environmental sovereignty and national ecological resilience through the Environment Ministry (KLH).

He cited KLH's swift response to the radioactive contamination incident in Cikande, Banten, as a key example of ecological sovereignty, noting that the Cesium-137 case was resolved through inter-agency collaboration and underscored the impo...