COMMUNITY-BASED DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION ACTIVITIES IN INDONESIA

Abstract

The management impact of climate change has been a global agenda in Indonesia for last decade. Based on policy studies conducted in eight districts/cities in West Java Province, shows that development activities in climate change adaptation and mitigation require a strengthening mechanism of development management. It also shows the gaps in policy development implementation between national government, province government, district government and community. In addition, institutional development management need to collaborate between stakeholders and local community need. Through a participatory multistakeholder dialogue, it is found that the development climate change adaptation and mitigation activities need to implement community-based development management. The development programme process starting from initiating activities at the community level in one village, and encourage collaboration between the various communities to experience and enlarge the scale of activities, establishing common understanding from the community to in line with Regional Development Planning to set up a productive area as an economic effort considering the sustainability of natural resources. This is a social learning form to educate the community, increase satisfaction and encourage solidarity stakeholders. This community-based development management will further contain the characteristics of local culture and give priority to the value of collaboration in vulnerability due to climate change impacts.