Climate Action in a Far-Flung Archipelagic Nation: Outlining Challenges in Capacity-Building

Abstract

This climate action study illustrates the issues of capacity-building in the highly complex governance setting of Indonesia’s more than 500 districts, each with their specific issues around mitigation and adaptation that pose challenges for both top-down and, equally important, bottom-up approaches. Some regions have made commendable progress; however, there is benefit in ensuring that the progress in one region is sufficient to establish it as a benchmark for others. Institutionalization of capacity-building is key in highlighting the role of civil society networks—especially those that can reach the far-flung districts of Indonesia—in creating trust in the regions where they are distributed.