SUMUN 2025

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Surabaya Model United Nations 2025

Surabaya Model United Nations 2025, or SUMUN 2025, is the MUN event in Surabaya, dedicated to empowering the next generation of leaders. In line with our core values of inclusivity, sustainability, and perseverance, we strive to create a collaborative environment where diverse voices unite to tackle global challenges.

Our mission is to inspire and guide young leaders, equipping them with the skills and mindset to drive innovation and lead with integrity. We believe that by embracing resilience and fostering a culture of cooperation, we can pave the way for a more sustainable and interconnected future. At SUMUN 2025, we aim not only to participate in global dialogue but to shape it, setting the stage for transformative solutions and impactful change across the world.

Grand Theme

Innovating for a Better Tomorrow: Unity, Ethics, and Sustainability

In an age defined by rapid technological advancement and global challenges, the way we innovate matters more than ever. Innovation is not just about efficiency or profit, but about creating meaningful change that benefits people and the planet. It must aim to improve quality of life, address pressing global issues, and help shape a future that is more just, inclusive, and livable than today. It's an active call to innovate responsibly and intentionally, not just disruptively. This is not a call for innovation for innovation’s sake, but for responsible and intentional progress. Whether through green technologies, inclusive education platforms, or equitable healthcare systems, innovation must be harnessed not just to do things differently, but to do them better, and for the benefit of all.

Without direction, innovation can deepen social divides, exploit resources, and leave many behind. To counter this, we must redefine innovation through the lens of unity, ethics, and sustainability. Unity calls for collaboration across cultures, sectors, and communities to ensure that progress is inclusive and no one is left behind. Ethics places humanity at the center of innovation, demanding that our advancements be shaped by values such as fairness, justice, and accountability. Finally, sustainability challenges us to look beyond short-term gains and prioritize long-term viability, to protect both our planet and the well-being of future generations.

To innovate for a better tomorrow means committing to more than just breakthroughs, it means creating solutions that reflect our shared humanity, our ethical obligations, and our responsibility to future generations. By embracing unity, grounding our efforts in ethics, and aiming for sustainability, we can ensure that innovation becomes a tool for healing, empowerment, and meaningful global transformation. The future doesn’t just need more innovation, it needs better innovation.

Council (Online)

UNIDO - Green Industry Challenges in the 21st Century: Balancing Development and Economy Pressure

Intermediate - Single Delegate

The pace of global industrial development continues to accelerate, driven by rising international demand and population growth. While industrialization contributes significantly to economic advancement, it also presents substantial environmental challenges, including air and water pollution, soil degradation, and increased carbon emissions. These adverse effects are particularly pronounced in regions where industrial growth has outpaced the development of environmental safeguards. In response, the promotion of green industry has emerged as a vital approach in the 21st century, aiming to integrate environmentally sustainable practices into industrial policy and production systems. However, the transition toward green industry remains especially difficult for developing countries. The adoption of environmental technologies and the implementation of international environmental standards often require substantial financial investment and technical capacity. This challenge is further compounded by the absence of universally aligned industrial policies and regulatory standards, which creates inconsistencies in the application of environmental safeguards across regions. This disparity underscores the continued absence of a coherent, global, and transparent framework for sustainable industrial development. Without such a framework, it can result in significant environmental degradation, particularly in areas surrounding industrial zones, due to the intense pressure to accelerate economic growth. Thereby undermining the core principles of inclusive and sustainable industrial growth as envisioned by UNIDO.

WHO - Enhancing The WHO's Emergency Medical Response to Chemical Incidents

Intermediate - Single Delegate

Between 2011 and 2017, ISIS conducted mustard gas attacks, including the 1 September 2015 artillery strike near Marea, causing severe chemical burns, respiratory distress, and ocular injuries, which overwhelmed already fragile health infrastructures in Iraq and Syria. In light of such emergencies, WHO has taken decisive action rooted in its public health mandate. It has pre-positioned chemical incident kits comprising burn dressings, atropine, oximes, respiratory supplies, and Personal Protective Equipment, deployed mobile trauma and coordination units, and trained over 800 frontline health workers. These measures are supported by protocols for swift decontamination, triage, burn/respiratory care, blood product readiness, and ICU preparedness. Moreover, WHO emphasizes long-term mitigation enhancing surveillance, diagnostic preparedness, oncological and chronic respiratory follow-up, and integrated psychosocial and mental health services. Going forward, WHO prioritizes expanding trauma teams, institutionalizing sustained mental health support, and reinforcing cross-border emergency coordination under the IHR (2005) framework. This non-binding, technical, and humanitarian strategy aligns global cooperation on resilience-building in communities affected by chemical threats.

UNESCO - Defining Ethical Boundaries for AI in Preserving Cultural Heritage

Beginner - Single Delegate

As AI tools become increasingly embedded in cultural heritage work, their impacts have grown both promising and deeply problematic. Technologies such as generative image reconstruction have enabled museums and researchers to restore damaged artifacts, and expand global access to historical archives. Yet on the other hand, AI also introduced serious ethical risks. The 2020 Babylonian Vision project, for example, used AI to generate digital reconstructions of Mesopotamian artifacts based on over 10,000 images scraped from museum collections. Sparking criticism over cultural misrepresentation, lack of source attribution, and the exclusion of scholars and communities from the regions where these artifacts originated. Meanwhile, initiatives like UNESCO’s partnership with Mila in 2019 which promoted ethical AI in cultural preservation encouraged rights-based approaches to cultural data. As UNESCO’s instruments are inherently non-binding, their impact relies heavily on political will, institutional capacity, and follow-through factors that have often been uneven or absent at the local level. These shortcomings underscore the urgent need to move from principle to practice: to define ethical boundaries that are operational, community-centered, and grounded in enforceable standards within institutions and partnerships, ensuring AI serves as a tool of preservation, not appropriation or distortion.

UN Tourism - Inclusive Innovation in Tourism: Addressing Digital Disparities in a Global Industry

Beginner - Single Delegate

As digital technologies revolutionize global tourism at breakneck speed, we stand at a critical crossroads. While these innovations promise unprecedented efficiency and connectivity, they are exacerbating systemic inequalities at an alarming rate. Each day without action widens the chasm between tech-empowered giants and vulnerable stakeholders being pushed to the margins. Small businesses, rural communities, and developing nations face immediate exclusion, hamstrung by inadequate infrastructure, unaffordable technologies, and skill gaps that leave them invisible in the digital marketplace. The consequences are dire: cultural authenticity eroded, livelihoods destabilized, and sustainable development goals undermined. This isn’t just an imbalance, it’s an emergency. The tourism sector’s survival hinges on its diversity, yet unchecked digital acceleration threatens to homogenize experiences, concentrate power, and alienate the very communities that make destinations unique. The time for incremental change has passed. UN Tourism’s vision of a sustainable and inclusive future will collapse without urgent, coordinated intervention to democratize access, regulate exploitative practices, and prioritize equitable innovation. The window to act is closing and every moment of delay deepens the divide.