Although many local civil society organisations (CSOs) involve in reducing the impact of climate change, the issue has been reported by a limited study. This paper addresses the gap by investigating the role of local CSOs in helping to anticipate the effect of climate change. This study looked into the case of Riau because it has many CSOs concerned with environmental problems. The objectives of this research are to classify the environmental CSOs in Riau and analyze their contribution to climate change resilience. Using a qualitative approach, the data were collected by using interviews on a series of participants, including CSO’s activists, government officials, academicians, and community leaders. We reveal that local CSOs can be classified as conservation, advocation, empowerment, and conflict resolution. Along with their own and government programs, the CSOs have been contributed to tackling climate change by ensuring forest and peatland preservation. The theoretical and practical contributions of the study are elaborated.

Social forestry is one of the programs delivered by the Indonesian government to distribute forest ownership to society. The program consisted of village forest, customary forest, community forest, a people forest plantation, and partnership for forestry. This study merely focused on the community forest in Indonesia. The purpose of this research is to analyze the context and problems during the implementation process of permit delivery for community forests in Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A qualitative method was used in this research to understand the case of community forests in the study site. Data were collected using an interview, non-participant observation, and secondary document. We find that many groups of farmers have not received the permit for forestry management because of regulatory constraints. The problems are induced by many policies in the forestry sector regulating various forms of forest management permits contradicting the principle of the decentralized forest management policy. We recommend to the government to simplify the process of forest permit management, especially for the community forest.

The tourism sector is considered as a stimulant of regional economic activity. However, innovative strategies are needed in developing existing local potential. The purpose of this research is to contribute ideas in solving the problem of the lack of community welfare in Tetandara Village, Rukun Lima, Paupanda. Some of the problems include: limited infrastructure to support tourism, poor quality of human resources, poverty, and the majority of the population living in slums. This research uses a qualitative method with a case study approach. The source of the data obtained through interviews and Focus Group Discussions. Based on the results of research in three study locations the need for tourism development while still paying attention to aspects of attraction, accessibility, convenience, and ancillary. The three study locations have similarities in terms of geography and the main economic activities that are in the coastal area and fishermen are the dominant livelihoods. On the one hand, the main problem lies in poverty with minimal income. The concept of development innovation is fishing village tourism that not only looks at physical development but also pays attention to its non-physical aspects, such as local institutions that are closely related to human resources. Required the formation of Pokdarwis institutions that must work together with cooperatives and BUMDesa as a form of support for the sustainability of tourism

The Indonesian government has implemented a solar panel policy to overcome a limitation of electrical availability in remote islands. Unfortunately, the prior studies have given a little concern to examine the social effect of the policy. Therefore, this paper addresses the research gap by testing the difference in social impacts of solar cell usage. Before and after analysis was used in this study. This research was conducted using a survey approach on two rural coastal communities in Karimun Regency, Kepulauan Riau, Indonesia. The research was arranged from May to October 2019. The respondent was chosen using simple random sampling. 262 respondents from these regions were voluntarily involved in the survey. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and a paired sample t-test by applying SPSS. The findings reveal that there are significant differences in communities’ social capital in terms of social relationships, trust, participation in the community, and brotherhood, before and after the policy is applied. Although solar panels provide many conveniences to society, social capital decreases to a lower level than before. The contributions of the research to the theory and practice are discussed.

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