| dc.description.abstract | This thesis provides a study of the role of Civil Society Organisations
(CSOs) in introducing and promoting a climate justice discourse. As are other
governments around the world, the Indonesian government is responding to
climate change through various programs and policies for national development.
This thesis examines the role and position of CSOs in promoting the climate
justice agenda into the debate around key policies related to climate change.
Various civil society theories describe the context and interaction between civil
sociery and the State, and these are used to analyze the relationship of CSOs with
the State and its government in responding to climate change in Indonesia. The
key question addressed in this thesis is the role of NGOs in building and
advancing the discourse of 'climate justice' within the debate around climate
change policy in Indonesia, and how the Civil Society Forum for Climate Justice
(known as CSF) relates with the State in the context of climate change. The
research is qualitative, using in-depth interviews and literature studies focusing
on CSF, a coalition of 29 Indonesian NGOs working to advance issues related to
climate justice. The results show that there was no single theory that could
explain the relationship and the role of CSF vis-a-vis the State's position on
climate change, indicating that CSF is clearly positioned as separate from and
challenging the State in this debate. In advancing the climate justice discourse,
CSF has introduced the HELP framework, which focuses on human security,
ecological debt, land rights, and production-consumption patterns. These four
HELP pillars are the basis upon which climate justice is being introduced by CSF
for climate justice in Indonesia. | en_US |
