Local Capacity Building to Enforce Indonesia’s Climate Change
Policy Olivia D. Purba Indonesia is widely known as one of the
world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, yet the country is
also vulnerable toward the impacts of climate change due to its
geographical locations and geological conditions. Taking
opportunity from its unique state, Indonesia has been playing a
successful role as the global leader on climate change issues.
In 2007, Indonesia made a big success as the host of Conference
of Party (COP) – 13 United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bali which resulting the most
appreciated Bali Action Plan. In 2009, the world was stupefied
when President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged to reduce 26-41
percent of emission from business as usual by 2020. In this
case, Indonesia was among the first developing countries to
commit to the ambitious target. Although leaving a decent image
internationally, Indonesia still has plenty of homeworks when it
comes to the implementation of