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The release of the Academic Draft of the Climate Change Management Bill (RUU PPI) by the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia (DPR RI) on January 15, 2025, marks a new chapter in climate regulation efforts in Indonesia. However, instead of presenting a breakthrough, this document precisely demonstrates a serious paradigm failure. The existential climate crisis is reduced to administrative and sectoral matters, trapped merely within the logic of bureaucratic restructuring. This approach ignores the fact that climate change is a direct impact of an exploitative development model, thus requiring a legal framework capable of penetrating sectoral boundaries and binding all state organs within a strong governance architecture.

This Policy Brief aims to correct these fundamental weaknesses by highlighting three crucial aspects: the use of the technocratic nomenclature of "management," an institutional design lacking scientific authority, and the absence of enforceable, rights-based climate justice. Without a binding scientific mandate and justiciable rights protection mechanisms, this Bill risks becoming a symbolic regulation devoid of corrective power over destructive development policies. Indonesia needs a climate law that boldly places science as the foundation of decision-making and climate justice as a legal right of its citizens, rather than just normative jargon.