Indonesia: Govt helps farmers, fishermen deal with climate change

With money from the Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund, the government has started numerous programs including the mapping of areas most prone to extreme weather blamed on global warming, writes Tifa Asrianti for the Jakarta Post. "With this map we should be able to detect potentials for extreme weather in order to better apply mitigation and adaptation strategies," said Widada Sulistya, deputy of climatology at the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG). The central government has also prepared a number of programs to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change which include education, capacity building and preparing a new school curriculum.