Climate Change Related Litigation in Indonesia: The Dawn of a New Beginning?

Abstract This study found that in Indonesia, 112 climate change related litigation cases have been brought to court between 2010 and 2020. This includes all cases using ‘climate change’ as key words in their main claim, argument, evidence, expert witness’ argument, and judgments. Climate change has been cited at all levels (District, Appellate, and Supreme Court) of criminal, and civil law. These cases are regarded as incidental climate change related litigations. This study opines that these cases are important in the development of climate change litigation in Indonesia as they opened a discussion of climate change issues in the Indonesian courts. Thus, this study identifies relevant criminal and civil climate change related litigation cases between 2010 and 2020 in Indonesia, and examines what factors drive climate change related litigation there.