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Although the Indonesian Government is pursuing export tariff reduction targets through the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART) with the United States, this agreement which has not yet been ratified by the House of Representatives (DPR) is deemed to have a highly unbalanced structure and risks undermining national climate commitments. Through an in-depth analysis, the civil society coalition discovered 217 obligations for Indonesia, in stark contrast to only 6 obligations for the US. The clauses within the ART are assessed to lock Indonesia into fossil fuel dependence, even mandating investment in US coal export infrastructure as well as triggering large-scale deforestation in vulnerable regions like Papua to pursue bioethanol targets lacking sustainability criteria.

Seeing the major contradiction that threatens the FOLU Net Sink 2030 target, MADANI Berkelanjutan urges the government to immediately exercise its termination rights to cancel this agreement before it is officially ratified by the DPR. If the government still chooses the path of renegotiation, there are minimum conditions that must not be compromised, ranging from the removal of the coal export corridor, the implementation of strict sustainability criteria on the bioethanol aspect, to the affirmation that Indonesia's NDC targets hold a higher position than all of these trade commitments.