Chapter 7
Resilience of Coastal Cities in Facing
Climate Change: Reclamation Case
of Benoa Bay Bali and North Jakarta Bay
Henny Warsilah
Abstract Climate change in recent times resulted in various natural disasters. Nearly
80% of disaster events in the Asian region are a result of global climate change.
In Indonesia, cities located in coastal areas are at high exposure from disasters to
climate change. In addition, there are around 60% of Indonesia’s population living
in coastal areas. Such conditions make coastal areas potentially have problems in
basic services, especially in the field of sustainable public policy and livelihoods. In
contrast, Indonesia has still lack of international climate policy formulation prior to
less research related to the impacts of climate change in Indonesia until now, especially if it is associated with coastal reclamation activities to develop a global tourism
economy that requires more new land expansion. The aim of this paper is how does
the government lead the effort to make coastal cities a better social resilience in
coping with climate change? This paper is extracted from the research that had been
conducted for two years (2017–2018) with title “Inclusive Development in Coastal
Cities: Cases of the Reclamation of Jakarta and the Bay of Benoa, Bali”, under direction of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). This research employs qualitative
research approaches by using the concept of Bengen (2001: 56), the key to coastal
areas governance are four aspects as follows: (1) ecological integration; (2) Integration of sectors; (3) the integration of scientific disciplines; and (4) the integration of
stakeholders. This research also employs ICM Concept by Adrianto and Warsilah
(2017–2018). Data collection is obtained from tiered focus group discussions. The
objective of this paper is to analyze the social resilience of coastal areas in coping
with global climate change impacts, to enrich regional climate studies and climate
change policy in Indonesia. The resume of this research is the effort of Indonesian Government in handling climate change disasters but the policy has failed to
encourage the formation of social security in coastal areas and their communities.
Keywords Climate change · Coastal and social resilient · Reclamation · Cultural
and social adaptation · Bali · North Jakarta
H. Warsilah (B)
Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia
e-mail: hennywarsilah@gmail.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
R. Djalante et al. (eds.), Climate Change Research, Policy and Actions in Indonesia,
Springer Climate, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55536-8_7
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Resilience of Coastal Cities in Facing
Climate Change: Reclamation Case
of Benoa Bay Bali and North Jakarta Bay
Henny Warsilah
Abstract Climate change in recent times resulted in various natural disasters. Nearly
80% of disaster events in the Asian region are a result of global climate change.
In Indonesia, cities located in coastal areas are at high exposure from disasters to
climate change. In addition, there are around 60% of Indonesia’s population living
in coastal areas. Such conditions make coastal areas potentially have problems in
basic services, especially in the field of sustainable public policy and livelihoods. In
contrast, Indonesia has still lack of international climate policy formulation prior to
less research related to the impacts of climate change in Indonesia until now, especially if it is associated with coastal reclamation activities to develop a global tourism
economy that requires more new land expansion. The aim of this paper is how does
the government lead the effort to make coastal cities a better social resilience in
coping with climate change? This paper is extracted from the research that had been
conducted for two years (2017–2018) with title “Inclusive Development in Coastal
Cities: Cases of the Reclamation of Jakarta and the Bay of Benoa, Bali”, under direction of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). This research employs qualitative
research approaches by using the concept of Bengen (2001: 56), the key to coastal
areas governance are four aspects as follows: (1) ecological integration; (2) Integration of sectors; (3) the integration of scientific disciplines; and (4) the integration of
stakeholders. This research also employs ICM Concept by Adrianto and Warsilah
(2017–2018). Data collection is obtained from tiered focus group discussions. The
objective of this paper is to analyze the social resilience of coastal areas in coping
with global climate change impacts, to enrich regional climate studies and climate
change policy in Indonesia. The resume of this research is the effort of Indonesian Government in handling climate change disasters but the policy has failed to
encourage the formation of social security in coastal areas and their communities.
Keywords Climate change · Coastal and social resilient · Reclamation · Cultural
and social adaptation · Bali · North Jakarta
H. Warsilah (B)
Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia
e-mail: hennywarsilah@gmail.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
R. Djalante et al. (eds.), Climate Change Research, Policy and Actions in Indonesia,
Springer Climate, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55536-8_7
121