Embracing Circular Economy Principles: How Indonesian MSMEs Food Services Drive Sustainability Through Local Sourcing

As part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, the Secretary General of the United Nations will convene a Food Systems Summit in September, 2021 to establish the future direction for global food systems.In preparation for the Summit, UN Member states are encourage to convene the Food Systems Summit Dialogues (FSSD) to indentify problems and choices of game changing solution to develop pathway of food systems transformation.FFSD offers organized purposeful forum for stakeholders to come together and to share their views on how to advance progres towards food systems transformation, map their respective roles, identify and minimize potential trade-offs across sectors and intervention for comprehensive and upscaled results.Government of Indonesia (GOI) has made bold of commitment to actively participate UN Food Systems Summit by implementing all the principles and process of the FSSD.The National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS) has been registered as National Convenor to prepare, organize and implement FSSD in Indonesia.BAPPENAS has organized the national and sub-national food systems summit dialogues in Indonesia, that incorporate, reinforce and enhance the principles of the summit dialogues, that are act with urgency, recognizing complexity, embrace multi-stakeholder inclusivity and build trust, respectful and commitment as foundation of collaboration.The first Indonesia Food Systems Summit Dialogues was implemented on April, 27 th 2021, that involved 239 participants (144 male and 125 female), represented a broad range of stakeholders such as national and subnational government institution across development sectors, private sectors and bussiness association, civil society organizations including small-scale producers and family farming groups, youth, women and consumers organizations, custumary communities, universities and UN-based organizations in Indonesia.The first FSSD was organized as national level dialogues to initiate national engagement with focus on comprehensive exploration of Indonesia food systems, gathering inputs on problems and ideas on possible solutions on food systems transformation.The second Indonesia Food Systems Summit Dialogues was conducted on August, 12-13 th 2021, that organized as sub-national dialogues to explore the perspetives of local stakeholders as well as the process of verification and validation of the results of the national dialogues.The dialogues were organized in six regions to cover the diversity of Indonesia food systems as archipelagic county, that were in Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Bali and Nusa Tenggara, Sulawesi and Maluku, and Papua.The subnational dialogues involved 1,552 participants (834 male and 718 female).Along with member-state dialogues that organized by government, the independent dialogues that organized by civil society groups are encouraged to bring inputs for national pathways of food system transformation.On August, 31 th 2021, BAPPENAS has encouraged the convenors of independent dialogues to present the results of their dialogues to contributes to the national pathway of food systems transformation.This reports is a synthesis of the results of the FSSD in Indonesia that are presented as "Indonesia National Strategic Pathway for Food Systems Transformation."This report is an articulation of national