Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The G20 summit will start from Tuesday to Wednesday (15-16/11/2022) in Nusa Dua, Bali. Dozens of G-20 heads of state will also sit together amidst the many frictions and tensions between them.

Although this year’s G20 Summit is about the theme of unity Recover together, recover strongereveryone will surely understand if this year’s G-20 Summit is taking place in a less than harmonious atmosphere.

The Russian-Ukrainian war, soaring oil prices, the gas problem in Europe, the question of Taiwan and mutual accusations of human rights violations (HAM) make this G-20 meeting run from unusual way.

The G-20 group itself consists of 27 member countries of the European Union, United States (US) and China, South Africa, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Australia, India, Brazil, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Canada, Republic of Korea, France, Russia, China and Turkey.

From a current member of the G-20, Russia is now becoming a “common enemy”. The United States, Japan and the European Union are the countries that strongly protested against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

This protest resulted in economic sanctions and a flight ban. One of them is the decision by Japan and the European Union to stop coal imports from Russia last August.

Russia and the European Union are also at odds over gas supplies. Russia cut off and then stopped the entire gas supply to the European Union via the Nord Stream 1 network, which made the region economically loss-making.

EU-Russia relations also simmered after the explosion of the Nord Stream 1 gas network which blew up in late September. The question of sabotage arose in the midst of the pipe explosion.

Natural gas prices in Europe have skyrocketed, electricity bills have skyrocketed and a number of countries have been forced into unpopular policies. One of them is to revive coal-fired power plants.

Soaring energy prices have also forced Germany to dip into a budget of up to 27.5 billion euros to cushion the impact of rising gas prices. The UK also disbursed an energy subsidy budget of IDR 2.751 trillion.

Russia refuses to resupply the European Union with gas until the economic sanctions against the country of the red bear are lifted. On the other hand, the European Union remains categorical on the sanctions. Russia is also of course despised by the United States because the country of Uncle Sam considers the Russian invasion of Ukraine illegal.

US President Joe Biden has even made it known that he does not wish to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Escalating tensions between the West and Russia have even made Putin’s presence in Bali a very big political issue.

“Previously, the question of who would attend the G-20 was not really a controversy. However, specifically this year, the question of the presence of world leaders has become a very political question due to the invasion of the ‘Ukraine by Russia,’ said the former Indonesian ambassador. to the American Dino Patti Djalal, on the Youtube channel of the FPCI Secretariat.