Environmental Governance in Indonesia (Environment & Policy, 61)

This open access book presents the state-of-the-art environmental governance research and practices in Indonesia. It offers a wide scope, covering different sectors (e.g., forestry, mining) and geographical landscapes (e.g., inland and coastal areas). This book engages with existing theories and frameworks, including Earth System Governance, Adaptive and Interactive Governance, among others to trigger a debate regarding the operationalization of such concepts, which are mostly developed for the Global North context. It is also our ambition to incorporate more empirical knowledge from local contexts to indicate research gaps and future directions for environmental governance research agenda to be more diverse, inclusive, and facilitate the incorporation of inter-and transdisciplinary knowledge. This book will be useful for researchers, students, practitioners, and policymakers who are interested in the field of environmental governance, especially in Indonesia.

Indonesia is one of the countries with the fastest-growing economies in Asia. Indonesia is rich in natural resources but also suffers from overexploitation and environmental threats exacerbated by climate and human pressures. Along with the growing global ambitions for achieving sustainable development and capacity to adapt to current and future threats, including climate change impacts and disaster risk, Indonesia's commitments to balance development while safeguarding a good environmental status are also increasing. The challenge is on how to govern complex and systemic natural, social and governance systems while adhering to the principle of equity and justice? As it will require more than traditional hierarchical modes of governance and current regulatory instruments (i.e., law and regulations).

This is an open access book.

Annisa Triyanti is an assistant professor at the Environmental Governance Group, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. Annisa holds a PhD in coastal disaster risk governance (University of Amsterdam, 2019). In her PhD research, she focused on interactive governance and governability of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in Indonesia and India. Annisa has 4 years of experience as a Human Geography lecturer at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She has conducted research on inclusive governance systems in communities at risk of facing water-related disasters in the coastal and delta areas. She has also been a global youth advocate with years of experience in youth, civil society, and young scientist engagement as a stakeholder group representative on the intergovernmental level.

Mochamad Indrawan is a researcher at the Research Center for Climate Change, Universitas Indonesia. He is a trained ecologist and conservation biologist with more than 3 decades of field experience. Indrawan's voluntary rainforest conservation work since 2007 included continuous facilitation of indigenous peoples and local communities whose joint endeavor is focused on the establishment of community conservation areas.

Laely Nurhidayah is a researcher at the Research Center for Law, the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Jakarta Indonesia. She leads the environment law and natural resources (marine and forest) research portfolios in her research centre. She was awarded her PhD in Law from Macquarie University, Australia. She published her work in many books, journals and working papers and has attended and presented papers in various international conferences.

Muh Aris Marfai is a professor in geomorphological hazard and currently serves as the Head of the Indonesian Geospatial Information Authority (Badan Informasi Geospasial-BIG). Prior to his current appointment, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Geography, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Indonesia. He received his doctoral degree in Geography with magna cum laude from Justus-Liebig- Universität, Giessen, Germany and an M.Sc in Earth System Analysis from the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), The Netherlands.