Indonesia

Oct 6

Core analysis conducted and presented by Damayanti/Setyaki, Yulfiae, Seruni Salsabila, and Kautsar Fahreza of Indonesia in August, 2021.

NDC Overview

Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) is a mandatory document to showcase member state’s commitment in reducing Green House Gas (GHG) emissions through conditional and unconditional targets. The first submission after Indonesia ratified the Paris Agreement in 2016, initial NDC has clearly stated an ambitious commitment to reduce 29% (unconditional) up to 41% (conditional) against 2030 business as usual (BAU) scenario. Although the updated NDC is yet to set a new ambitious target towards GHG emission reduction, it still guarantees action commitment by means of basic principles: concise, non rigid, and flexible but accountable.

This synthesis report outlines gender mainstreaming into the development and implementation, as well as into the planning process of Indonesia’s Updated NDC. The key deliverables will include local and or indigenous women supporting issues; and young feminist perspectives and recommendation. Capturing gender manners into the stipulated laws and specific instruments, Indonesia’s updated NDC features gender-based approaches in each element. There are some activities and tailored programs which enhance gender capacity building, including campaign, education, empowerment, natural resource management training, and participation. According to challenges in collecting progress, experiences and lessons of capacity building, lack coordination with international supports, diversity in regional circumstances, and education and literacy; those maintain data gaps and overlaps in gender and intergenerational needs.

The term of young feminist, as it is the centered point of topic discussion cannot address properly – since there is no specific instrument nor legally binding law to guide extraction process. This synthesis report, then, crafts young feminist perspectives using large scale data from statistical manner based on gender population, gender workforce index, and ‘youth’ mentioning in Indonesia’s updated NDC and some supporting documents listed in the references. The recommendations hereupon are proffered by integrating young feminist data and current Indonesia’s holistic issues of climate change.

Analysis

1.Introduction

Indonesia commits to tackle climate change by ratifying Paris Agreement, as it is also align with Article 28H of Indonesia’s Constitution about state obligation to guarantee decent life and healthy environment for all citizens. Indonesia’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) outlines the concerted effort to prevent 2oC increase in global average temperature and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels.

Although most of the content from first NDC and updated NDC still have the same strategies, here’s a few thing from the updated NDC:

Unconditional reduction: reduce 29% by 2030 (2.87 GtCO2e by 2030) and could increase to 41% by 2030 for conditional reduction with the help from international support (until now REDD+ plays an important role as a support)

utilization for renewable energy and utilize waste/garbage for energy production which constituted by Presidential Decree Number 97/2017

2. National Context on Gender-Based Policy and Cross-Cutting Measures

Indonesia has Pancasila as foundational philosophical theory to implicitly declare gender equality while the 1945 State Constitution of Republic of Indonesia article 27 states: (i) All citizens shall be equal before the law and the government and shall be required to respect the law and the government, with no exceptions; (ii) Every citizen shall have the right to work and to earn a humane livelihood, and (iii) Each citizen shall have the right and duty to participate in the effort of defending the state.

As the continuation towards legally-binding law forces, Indonesia has ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to combat gender inequality and injustice, which later to be reinforced under Presidential Instruction No. 9/2000 regarding Gender Mainstreaming into National Development - Emphasizing specific planning on gender responsive budget and gender budget tagging; gender role in accessing water and sanitation; and gender equality in climate adaptation. In the policy implementation level, updated Indonesia’s National Medium Term Development Plans (RPJMN 2020-2024) has concluded several gender indicators to achieve its goals, viz: (i) gender mainstreaming index (Indeks Pengarusutamaan Gender/IPG), (ii) gender empowerment index (Indeks Pemberdayaan Gender/IDG), (iii) eradication of all forms of violence to woman, and (iv) family development index (Indeks Pembangunan Keluarga/IPK).

Furthermore, Indonesia submits Long-Term Strategy for Low Carbon and Climate Resilience 2050 (LTS-LCCR 2050) under mandatory by The Paris Agreement to contribute towards GHG emissions reduction within half century and to strengthen Indonesia’s Vision 2045 in achieving climate resilience and economic development; taking into consideration the issues on just transition, gender, inter-generation, the needs of vulnerable groups, adat communities (Masyarakat Hukum Adat) and local community. In the context of Indonesia’s Updated Nationally Determined Contribution, The LTS-LCCR 2050 acts as strong basis policy to create gender mapping issues in climate policy; enhancing women’s role in development, capacity, and leadership through NDC implementation and development.

3. Mitigation

The accentuation on mitigation action measures will affect adaptation cost, especially in dealing with loss and damage caused by climate catastrophe. Indonesia seeks to continue the efforts to reduce emission, focusing on forest-and-land and energy sectors as much as 97.2%. Hence, policy implementation for NDC is expected to integrate mitigation in five (5) main category sectors, including forestry, energy, IPPU, waste, and agriculture. Both sectors are grouped into two (2) modeling stages called AFOLU (agriculture, forestry, and other land uses) and Non-AFOLU (energy, waste, and Industrial Processes and Product Use). The modeling analyze economic impacts, food and energy demands by considering key factors on current economic situation and population growth. Therefore, Indonesia predicts to achieve net sink in forestry and other land uses (FOLU) sectors by 2030; and explore opportunity to rapidly progress towards net-zero emission by 2060 or sooner.

Highlighting gender perspective into mitigation pathways, it is crucial that women’s participation is hindered by power and social norm. Whilst, women shall contribute to the pattern of energy, waste, and natural resource management insight. In forestry, environmental degradation and deforestation could affect women’s livelihood. For the household food production, women could produce 70-80% through agriculture fields. Women are also encouraged to led for renewable energy solution, while the facts 24.5 million households still rely on firewood for cooking and 25% of their time spent for wood collection. Access to renewable and affordable energy could help women in avoiding 165.000 estimation numbers of premature death due to indoor pollution.

4. Adaptation

Indonesia has made significant effort to build regional and sectors resilience towards safeguarding food, water and energy resources through a framework for adaptation initiative developed and implemented under National Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation. Minister for Environment and Forestry issues Ministry Regulation No.33/2016 providing guidance for national governments and local governments in planning climate change adaptation actions and integrating them into development plans of specific regions and/or sectors. In focus on three main areas (economic resilience, social and livelihood resilience, and ecosystem and landscape resilience), Indonesia sets goals to reduce risks, enhance adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability in climate change.

In specific for gender key program, to secure access to key natural resources in capacity of participation, equity, and balance require:

awareness campaign, education, training in natural resource management as source of income; taking into consideration green jobs, food security, funding accessibility, and supporting gender leadership.
identification, development, and implementation of best practices with specific area on risk management and sustainable utilization of natural resources, including water, renewable energy and environmental health.

Covering local phenomena, the customary justice system (Adat) plays a key responsibility to reduce women leadership in climate change. Patriarchy structures often exist to encourage men as indigenous leaders and overlook women from running the same. The result affects impartial justice to women facing domestic violence and land right disputes. Female indigenous leaders are necessary to take part in the transition since most women confidently expressing Adat issues to women leaders. Besides, women play pivotal roles in securing the sustainability of family livelihood such as keeping seed for farmland restoration to ensure food security and managing waste to reduce food loss and environmental damage.

5. Planning Process

Indonesia establishes the Directorate General of Climate Change, under the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to serve as the National Focal Point for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to effectively facilitate ongoing relevant programmes and processes being implemented by variety of government sectors and stakeholders. Together with Ministry of Environment and Forestry, National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Indonesia creates simultaneous synergy and coordination to tackle climate change both local, national and international context. Supporting gender leadership governmental sector, Sri Mulyani Indarwati, S.E., M.Sc., Ph.D has been appointed as Minister of Finance, Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi, S.I.P., LL.M. has been appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Dr. Ir. Siti Nurbaya Bakar, M.Sc. has been appointed as Minister of Environment and Forest.

Further, Indonesia has conducted various consultations with key stakeholders representing Ministries and other government institutions, academia, scientists, private sector, and civil society organizations to achieve gender equality to update NDC through local and national context.

5.a Approaches

As a democratic country, Indonesia has applied an integral comprehensive and holistic policy to maintain and enhance national resilient, which – in nature - requires inter-regional, inter sectoral and multi-disciplinary approaches. Indonesia’s NDC predicated four (4) foundational principles through strategic approach:

1) Employing a landscape approach: Recognizing that climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts are inherently multi-sectoral in nature, Indonesia takes an integrated, landscape-scale approach covering terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems.

2) Highlighting existing best practices: recognizing significant strides in multi- stakeholder efforts in combating climate change, Indonesia intends to scale up the diversity of traditional wisdom as well as innovative climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts by the government, private sector, and communities.

3) Mainstreaming climate agenda into development planning: recognizing the needs to integrate climate change into development and spatial planning and budgeting process, Indonesia includes key climate change indicators in formulating its development programme’s targets.

4) Promoting climate resilience in food, water and energy: recognizing the importance of fulfilling the needs of a growing young population for food, water and energy, Indonesia will improve its management of natural resources to enhance climate resilience by protecting and restoring key terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems.

In regards of gender policy analysis, Gender responsive approach is required to introduce new agricultural technologies and develop alternative livelihood strategies to achieve ideal climate change control target. According to the updated NDC, gender-based approaches include development and implementation of appropriate mechanisms for community participation; and ensuring community interests that includes gender in the development plan.

5.b Gender Circumstances and Gaps

COVID19 has affected global health, social and economy aspects, overburden families with food security, air pollution, and also climate change. At the 2nd quarter 2020, Indonesia experienced economy contraction with GDP growth rate of minus 5.3%. Depth-diving into gender economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival and political empowerment, The Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI) ranks Indonesia 88th out of 144 countries. Women only own 35% of small to mid-sized enterprises from total 95% of Indonesian labor market. At the moment, women are also posing challenge by environmental pollution from smallholder farmers practicing ‘slash and burn’ in agriculture sector causing hotspot in peat land.

6. Means of Implementation

Finance, technology development and transfer and capacity building are an integral part on Paris Agreement, refers to Article 9, 10, and 11. The three components should be coherently provided through cooperative and coordinated linkages among relevant entities.

6.a Finance

Indonesia established a national agency environmental funding management, known as BPDLH (Badan Pengelola Dana Lingkungan) to manage and mobilize incoming grants from various resources such as national and international sources, private and public sources, bilateral and multilateral channels. Through gender-responsive manner, mainstreaming gender in both public and private funding is considered important; as the outreach and collaboration on gender-budget tagging will alternatively contribute to economic empowerment, ecosystem restoration, conservation, and reduce GHG emissions. Government in comprehensive ways need to strengthen communication, capacity and collaboration with key gender-based stakeholders to awaken enthusiasm of Indonesia’s economy from pandemic situation.

6.b Technology Development and Transfer

Indonesia embarked on a Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) covering both mitigation and adaptation to support NDC implementation. Indonesia also calls for international support and collaboration in research, development and demonstration (RD & D) of innovative technologies and strengthening endogenous technology, local wisdom and best practices. Technology has been acknowledged and integrated in key sectors like agriculture, forestry, energy, marine, waste and GHG emission reduction which affecting gender directly and indirectly. Further utilization for technology mechanism should be mainstreamed in enriching gender capacity and capability.

6.c Capacity Building

Enhance synergy and transformational changes in capacity building has also been more obvious at the national level, as implied in the mitigation and adaptation pathway scenarios. For example, the transition in energy sector which requires transition of the workforce to green jobs need well- designed capacity development taking into account for women workforce rate 48.9%; similarly for other mitigation sectors, adaptation, and for addressing cross cutting issues (include just transition, gender, intergeneration and vulnerable groups, MHA and local communities). A preliminary assessment on capacity building needs was done in 2018-2019 as part of national capacity building and technology needs assessment (CBTNA), which can be enhanced as part of the capacity building road map. There are two instruments of capacity building which support NDC implementation. The first instrument (General Instrument) will focus on integrating climate change into the national system on education, training, and other forms of capacity building, while the second instrument (Technical Instrument) will focus on capacity building programs for both state and non-state actors in mitigation and adaptation.

7. Young Feminist Perspectives and Key Recommendation

As population in Indonesia has reached out to 270.20 million in quarter 2020 with GDP minus 5.3% compared to 5.02% in 2019, considering pandemic disruption, the rise in food, jobs, and energy demand cannot be stopped. Meanwhile, the women population of productive age 15-34 years reached 34,607,700 people. It would increase vulnerability if the disproportional challenges remain without any proper action. Otherwise, there is still no certain instrument, policy nor implementation featuring young feminist in Indonesia’s NDC development and implementation.

Following the 4th foundational principle on Updated NDC’s strategic approach,

“Promoting climate resilience in food, water and energy: recognizing the importance of fulfilling the needs of a growing young population for food, water and energy, Indonesia will improve its management of natural resources to enhance climate resilience by protecting and restoring key terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems.”

Some key recommendations has been formulated with focus centered on young feminist participation and engagement for development and implementation of Indonesia’s NDC.

Promoting young feminist participation through various mechanisms in development and implementation of Indonesia’s NDC.
Supporting state and non-state actors collaboration in mainstreaming young feminist term in all sectors.
Advocating inclusivity of youth and gender engagement through consultations in local and national level.
Encouraging government in integrating climate related agenda into Indonesia’s NDC in addition of young feminist appropriate manners.

8. Sources

Updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) Republic of Indonesia
Indonesia Long Term Strategy For Low Carbon And Climate Resilience 2050 (Indonesia LTS-LCCR 2050)
Visi Indonesia 2045
Rencana Kerja Pemerintah Tahun 2019
Change Makers: Programming For Gender Equality And Helping Men And Women In Indonesia Shape A Fairer World – Gender Equality Strategy And Action Plan (2017-2020)
Strategi Implementasi Nationally Determined Contribution (2017)
Third National Communication (TNC) Republic of Indonesia (2017)
Pedoman Umum Adaptasi Perubahan Iklim Yang Responsif Gender (2015)
National Action Plan for Climate Change Adaptation (RAN-API)
Policy Brief – Gender Equality

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