Indonesia Not Have Guide to Climate Change Adaptation

Indonesia does not have a complete guide to the various activities of adaptation to climate change, said Chairman of the Secretariat of the National Council on Climate Change (DNPI) Agus Purnomo.

"We're learning from that area has developed adaptation," said Chairman Agus Purnomo DNPI Secretariat in a seminar in Jakarta on Wednesday.

Agus said, is targeted at the 2010 Indonesia already has a plan that climate change adaptation.

"The biggest problem is about the readiness of various sectors and stakeholders for this adaptation to work together," he said.

Agus acknowledged climate change adaptation is not easy to get into every sector because there still exists a difference of perception about it.

In addition there are several other obstacles, such as budget allocations in each department or agency, and the involvement of regions in Indonesia.

"Adaptation is local because the local urusal who accept climate change impacts and adaptation areas," he said.

Therefore making the national adaptation plans for climate change must involve the region.

According to Agus, making adaptation action plan has been started with meetings of the parties that deal with issues of adaptation and disaster reduction.

Director of Special Region and the Regional Remote Suprayoga Bappenas Hadi said that the government made efforts to mainstream climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction into the continuing development of integrated into development planning system.(AntaraNews)

But the challenge is to align climate change adaptation with disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the development planning process, with reference to the Law 25/2004 on National Development Planning System and Law 24/2007 on Disaster Management.

Suprayogi say, environmental issues and disaster management into national priorities 11 of United Indonesia Cabinet II.

Construction Work Plan (RKP) in 2010 set a priority focus of capacity building and adaptation to climate change mitigation and other natural disasters as one of the focus on national priorities to improve the quality of natural resources management and climate change capacity.

While Heru Santoso of Adaptation Working Group said that adaptation needs to DNPI integrated with poverty alleviation programs and disaster management in development planning sectors.