CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: THE PRO-ACTIVE ACTIONS FROM INDONESIA ON CORAL TRIANGLE COUNTRIES IN 2009

Abstract

Climate change is an unstable change of climate which influence the global temperature and natural climate variability observed over comparable time period. Climate change brings global impacts to the world. The biggest impact of climate change goes to ocean. Coral Triangle ocean, an area which covers the ocean of six Coral Triangle countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste, and Papua New Guinea) is also experienced the impacts of climate change. By recalling the benefits given by Coral Triangle ocean for its ecosystem and people, the environment on Coral Triangle ocean is important to be protect from climate change impacts. The main goal of this research is to find out the actions taken by Indonesia in order to support climate change adaptation on Coral Triangle countries. The focus time of this research is on the year of 2009. This research is a qualitative study and the sources of data are come from books, government official websites, and government institution data. After analyzing, the researcher find out that climate change impacts on Coral Triangle ocean is real and threaten the future of its ecosystem and people on Coral Triangle countries. As the respond to this issue, Indonesia took pro-active actions to support climate change adaptation on Coral Triangle countries through the multilateral partnership among Coral Triangle countries, called Coral Triangle Initiatives on Coral reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF). The result of this partnership determine climate change adaptation process on Coral Triangle countries.