With one of the longest coastlines in the world, Indonesia is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, such as sea level rise and tidal flooding. Other climate-related hazards like extreme rainfall, extreme temperatures, and droughts also pose serious risks to both remote areas and urban centers. Therefore, it is essential to design appropriate mitigation and adaptation strategies to prevent socio-economic risks.

KEMITRAAN initiated its climate resilience program through a systematic approach focused on reducing risks and building adaptive capacity. A key element of this effort is promoting greenhouse gas emission reduction policies in the Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector, which plays a critical role in both lowering emissions and enhancing carbon sinks.

KEMITRAAN also works to strengthen community resilience to adapt to existing climate impacts through a planned and integrated approach—embedded in development planning, implementation, and evaluation—and grounded in human rights principles, particularly those of climate justice: recognition, procedural, distributive, and corrective justice.

This approach begins with a paradigm shift: recognizing climate change impacts as unavoidable preconditions and moving from a reactive stance to an anticipatory response. It promotes a rights-based approach that includes all stakeholders—those already affected and those at risk—to ensure inclusive and just climate action.