Indonesia: Climate adaptation creates conflicts - Opinion

Using recent examples taken from fresh water policies in Indonesia, Jonatan A. Lassa argues in his opinion piece in the Jakarta Post that climate adaptation used by local governments can be coercive, which exacerbates vulnerability and marginality.

The writer is a research fellow at the Center for Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTS), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.