INTRODUCTION

Introduction

The issue of climate change is the most demanding global concern. It has a substantial impact and it is anticipated to enhance depth and repetitiveness of worldwide catastrophic events. Now it is more worrying than before. As a populace density, each urban environment will experience the intensified of flooding or water inadequacy due to severe in rainfall and heavy storms also can damage all inhabitant establishments. That climate change affects happened in every place around the world. However, its most significant negative effects will be in the poorest countries because of the poverty condition, lack of urban facilities and infrastructures, and much less society awareness. One of the natural disasters, because of its effectiveness that has biggest impact to the quality of community’s life and urban environment, is flood. Therefore, the presence of government public policy which has coverage globally could adapt, control, mitigate and prevent these issues. These policies are a foundation for dealing with the effect of environmental change on how each city adopts and applies them to have an impact on their degree of success.

This thesis argues that the current adoption of policies in Indonesia has problems in terms of applications, instruments, and principles, which needs resolved if mitigation is to be achieved and made successful. The key research question is “What are the climate change effects faced by every city in the world? How the government public policies and regulations can mitigate that impacts? If there is a lack of government mitigation due to the climate change effects especially sea level rise and flood hazard risk inside the policies, what needs to change?”. In addition, the focus country of this thesis is Indonesia which is experiencing severe influence of climate change concerning the sea level improvement. Therefore, this thesis will:

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2. Explore how sea level increment influence on the capital city of Jakarta, Explore the current adoption of Indonesia’s policies for mitigation such as flood prevention and water management,

3. Establish current limitations of these policies and according to the analysis of a series of case studies globally,

4. Offer recommendations and plan of actions on how to adapt or change the current policies which also involve the Indonesia’s Sustainable Development Goals strategies.

As a result, that recommendations becomes an alternative solution which can be considered by the Indonesia’s government in the next policies edition due to the mitigation and adaption of flood disaster risk and it will create a better urban environment especially in Jakarta.