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Climate expo highlights grassroots adaptation measures

A recent climate event in Jakarta showcased local communities' measures to adapt to the climate crisis and pushed for more support from national and global parties.

Kharishar Kahfi (The Jakarta Post)
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Climate expo highlights grassroots adaptation measures Participants attend an Indonesia Climate Week event at Taman Ismail Marzuki in Jakarta on Dec. 13, 2024. The event, organized by the Voices for Just Climate Action (VCA) Indonesia, aimed to raise awareness and serve as a discussion platform to push for measures for climate crisis adaptation. (Handout/Courtesy of Voices for Just Climate Action Indonesia)

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s the climate crisis impacts lives throughout the country, local communities have taken the initiative to adapt, as highlighted in a recent exhibition, although many still need help to ensure their resilience to a changing world.

The Climate Adaptation from Grassroots exhibition highlighted the effects of the climate crisis in several parts of Indonesia, including rural East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and Papua as well as urban Jakarta and Yogyakarta, and how communities living there were adapting to it.

The event was part of Indonesia Climate Week, held at Taman Ismail Marzuki in Jakarta from Dec. 10 to Friday and hosted by Voices for Just Climate Action (VCA) Indonesia, part of a global civil alliance campaigning for climate action.

The showcase highlighted five foundational ideas that connected the grassroots adaptation initiatives: jalinan, referring to people-place relationships; tatanan (values, beliefs and leadership); ruang (community infrastructure); ragam (diverse economies); and pengetahuan (coproduction of knowledge).

In one example, a market in Papua became a place of climate adaptation, allowing people to sell food products they had grown while also nurturing relationships between buyers and sellers, said anthropology lecturer Ignatia Dyahapsari of the University of Indonesia (UI).

“We want to help people become aware that efforts to adapt to the climate crisis have to be made collectively,” said Ignatia, who was part of the exhibition’s curatorial team from UI and the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). “Those five pillars cannot work by themselves.”

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