Synchronizing Global Standards as A Transformation of Indonesia’s Green Economy Legal Regime in The Digital Society Era

Abstract

The green economy has emerged as a critical global development agenda, particularly as nations intensify their commitments under the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Indonesia, as one of the world's significant carbon-emitting countries, faces a dual challenge: synchronizing international green economy standards into its national legal system while simultaneously integrating them within the rapidly evolving digital society. Despite several regulatory milestones, including Presidential Regulation No. 98 of 2021 on Carbon Economic Value, Law No. 4 of 2023 on Financial Sector Development and Strengthening, and Law No. 59 of 2024 on the National Long-Term Development Plan 2025–2045, a substantial normative gap persists between Indonesia's green economy legal regime and its technology-based digital legal infrastructure. This study aims to examine how the synchronization of global standards in green economy regulation can be integrated with the digital society's legal infrastructure to establish legal transparency and certainty, and to formulate a transformative model for Indonesia's green economy legal regime that adopts digital innovation as the primary instrument for achieving sustainable economic growth. Employing a normative juridical method through both statute and conceptual approaches, this study finds that effective global standard synchronization demands systemic normative reconstruction, and that digital innovation can serve as a compliance instrument through the concept of Green-Tech Compliance. This research contributes a novel concept, namely the digitalization of green economy legal compliance instruments, offering an adaptive regulatory framework for Indonesia as it navigates the challenges of technology-driven green transition.