Fragmented Agencies in Public Sector: An Obstruction to Indonesia’s Climate Policy Implementation

Abstract

Member states of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are urged to limit its emission in order to maintain global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius that is textualised in the Glasgow Climate pact. In order to implement the mandate, Indonesia introduced several policies at national level. However, emerging issues in the public sector challenges the implementation of climate policy: fragmented agencies. This research attempts to address two questions; How fragmenting agencies impacts the implementation of climate policies? How can the implementation be possible amidst the emergence of fragmented agencies? This research utilises normative-empirical methods, where it would normatively analyse environmental policy agenda problems in selected ministries as public sector actors, while it would empirically examine the impact on the issue. This research shows that the issue of fragmented agencies in Indonesia has become the main obstacle in implementing climate policies due to the unsynchronized sectoral policy with the current climate policies in each ministry, where such fragmentation then obstructs good environmental governance. Furthermore, the implementation of Indonesia’s environmental and climate policies would not be optimally implemented if the aforementioned issue cannot be resolved through each ministries agenda restructuration. Another recommendation is to utilise the Penta Helix method in optimising climate policy implementation by multisectoral cooperation in climate policy.