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Learning from Catastrophe: Institutional Adaptation in Indonesia's Disaster Response from the 2004 Tsunami to the 2025 Sumatra Crisis Pambagyo, Wahyu Dwi; Husein, Rahmawati; Paksi, Arie Kusuma; Jabar, Melvin Allen
Journal of Governance and Public Policy Vol. 13 No. 2 (2026): June 2026
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18196/jgpp.v13i2.30576

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This study examines how Indonesia's experience of receiving extensive international humanitarian assistance following the 2004 Aceh tsunami influenced the government's decision to reject foreign aid during the 2025 Sumatra floods. Although disaster governance research has extensively examined international aid coordination and post-disaster reconstruction, limited attention has been paid to how historical disaster experiences reshape state identity and sovereignty norms, which subsequently influence foreign aid policies. Drawing on Alexander Wendt's constructivist framework, this study conceptualizes disaster response as a socially constructed policy shaped by collective learning and evolving national identity. Employing a qualitative exploratory design, the research analyzes government documents, academic literature, policy reports, and media sources published between 2004 and 2025 using qualitative content analysis and process tracing. The findings reveal that coordination difficulties, legal ambiguities, and dependence on external actors experienced during the 2004 tsunami reconstruction became institutionalized as collective policy memory, reinforcing an autonomy-oriented national identity that informed Indonesia's decision to limit foreign humanitarian assistance during the 2025 Sumatra floods. While this policy strengthened the government's commitment to national sovereignty and domestic disaster-management capacity, it also generated tensions between humanitarian imperatives and political independence. The study advances constructivist disaster governance by demonstrating that major disasters function not only as learning events but also as identity-forming processes that reshape state preferences regarding humanitarian intervention and international cooperation. These findings contribute to broader debates on disaster diplomacy, humanitarian governance, and the politics of sovereignty in developing countries.
Multi-Level Governance of World Bank BioCarbon Fund-ISFL Program in Jambi (2019–2026) Oktarimbi, Aura; Paksi, Arie Kusuma
Journal of Governance and Public Policy Vol. 13 No. 3 (2026): October 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18196/jgpp.v13i3.31444

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The BioCarbon Fund-Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (BioCF-ISFL) in Jambi is a jurisdictional climate-finance program that links global results-based finance with national climate accounting, provincial development planning, and site-level land management. This article asks how the program operationalizes multi-level governance (MLG) and where implementation asymmetries appear across governance functions. The study used qualitative documentary analysis of 20 official documentary items published between 2019 and June 30, 2026: six core program documents, four provincial legal/planning instruments, and ten dated implementation and monitoring records issued by the World Bank/BioCF-ISFL, the Government of Indonesia, and the Government of Jambi Province. The corpus was analyzed through the READ protocol and a hybrid reflexive thematic analysis, using Homsy, Liu, and Warner’s five MLG components, sanctioning and coordinating authority, provision of capacity, knowledge co-production, framing of co-benefits, and civil-society engagement as deductive categories while allowing inductive subthemes to emerge. The documents show a comparatively mature architecture for authority, coordination, technical capacity, and monitoring, including a maximum contract volume of 14 million tCO2e, as well as extensive institutional and stakeholder preparation. By contrast, benefit-sharing remained institutionally unfinished at the data cutoff: the final BSP, implementing procedures, and beneficiary arrangements were still being harmonized. The case, therefore, demonstrates a temporal asymmetry in jurisdictional climate governance: compliance and measurement institutions can mature earlier than distributive and participatory institutions. This study refines MLG analysis by showing that governance quality should be assessed across functional components and implementation maturity, rather than solely through vertical and horizontal actor relationships.
The Sustainable Autonomy Framework: Explaining Autonomy in Aceh and Southern Yemen Saad, Abdulsalam; Paksi, Arie Kusuma
Jurnal Politik Vol. 11, No. 2
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This article examines why post-conflict autonomy consolidates into durable self-governance in some cases while remaining fragile and externally dependent in others. While Aceh has maintained stable self-governance since the 2005 Helsinki Agreement, Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council remains a fragmented authority sustained by external patronage. To explain this divergence, the article develops the Sustainable Autonomy Framework (SAF) and asks: under what conditions does post-conflict autonomy become viable and sustainable? The SAF argues that durability depends on the alignment of three mutually reinforcing pillars: elite legitimacy, resource sovereignty, and mediation credibility. Using a most-similar systems comparison of Aceh’s Free Aceh Movement and Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council, the findings show that Aceh achieved sustainable autonomy because locally legitimate elites controlled fiscal resources and operated within a credibly mediated peace process, generating accountability and institutional consolidation. By contrast, the STC remains fragile because external patronage, rentier dependency, and partisan mediation reinforce one another’s weaknesses. The SAF offers an integrative explanation applicable to other post-conflict autonomy cases.