In regards to the extreme dry weather, areas that are densely populated are predicted to have water scarcity problems. One of the more prevalent ideas to combat this is inter basin water transfer, which is the transfer of water from a river basin to another where it would be of greater potential help. This solution would work because despite the shortage of water some water basins still have a surplus of water but due to its location it is not being used properly. With this method improved storage methods would be taken on.
Although everybody knows that climate change is a negative thing for the humans, people do not always realize that global climate change can be bad for your health. Indonesia has many adaption strategies in order to keep health in tact while climate change occurs. (http://unfccc.int/essential_background/library/items/3599.php?rec=j&priref=7376#beg)
In the IPCC's adaptation section for Asia, livestock and agricultural are the most prevalent of the adaptations. It was interesting that many of the adaptions weren't about the reduction of anything, but rather put on the animals and plants themselves to gain tolerance to the new conditions through breeding and the use of different species. Little to no conservation is taking place with these plans aside from improved use and storage of rain and snow water. (http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch10s10-5.html)
Status of Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol
Indonesia has ratified the protocol, however surprisingly they were never required to lower their carbon emissions despite their deforestation. (http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/status_of_ratification/items/2613.php)
Indonesia is home to the third largest rain forest in the world, however do to deforestation for the use of wood and palm oil plantations, Greenpeace estimates that 4,790 square miles of forest have already been cut down. Not only does this endanger species that live there, but deforestation contributes to carbon emissions. Although President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has a plan to cut down emissions by 26 percent by 2020, the continuous growth in palm oil plantations brings much doubt to the matter. There are currently no economic incentives for a decline in this activity, but there is in favor of deforestation.
Due to the fact that Indonesia is directly causing significant carbon emissions which leads to carbon change, I believe that Indonesia should try and mitigate. Global climate change should be something taken very seriously in Indonesia due to all of the small islands that its population is spread across and the danger that a rise in sea level would bring to them.
