Urban flooding in Indonesia increases in frequency annually and results in the deaths of hundreds of people. Instead of investing in multi-hazard large-scale risk reduction projects, the national and subnational governments have unfortunately allowed politics to infiltrate systems ofthat logic.should Insteadbe ofdesigned creatinglogically. forcefulReal andchange impactful policies for flood management, the disadvantaged and impoverished are forced to suffer. Change starts at the local level where officials must commit to strong policies that are built on commucommunity support.

Increasingly severe downpours, flooding, and landslides are directly connected to human-induced climate change. Indonesia is among the top countries in terms of climate risk, which is why it must wake up and execute its climate agendas — including setting a target to cut emissions — to save lives and billions of dollars in damage. Any disaster risk reduction strategy and the local, subnational, or national level must accelerate and expand to encompass severe climate stress.