Linda Yanti 
SULISTIAWATI

 
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Contact

(65) 6601-3897
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Education

PhD, Law (University of Washington, USA, Fulbright Presidential Scholarship Awardee); Msc, Urban Environment Management (Wageningen University & Erasmus University, The Netherlands; StuNed Scholarship Awardee); LLB, International Law (Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia); B.A., Journalism (Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia)

In Residence

1 March 2020 to 1 March 2026
Linda is a Senior Research Fellow at APCEL and also an Associate Professor of Law in Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She received her doctorate in 2013 (honorary mentioned) from University of Washington School of Law, supported by the Fulbright PhD Presidential Program.  She focuses on international environmental law issues, such as climate change, REDD+, marine plastic pollution, land issues and customary (adat) issues. Linda was a member of the delegation leading Indonesia’s negotiations of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. From 2018 to 2023, Linda is a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report.

Linda has held visiting appointments at the Center for Asian Legal Exchange (CALE) in Nagoya University (2017), ISB-Agder University (2017), Asian Law Institute (ASLI) at NUS (2018), and APCEL NUS  (2019). Linda had presented her research globally, including at University of Agder (Norway, 2017), University of Nagoya (Japan, 2018), Korean Legal Institute (South Korea, 2018), Kathmandu University (Nepal, 2018), and the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR, 2019).  She published in various journals (among others upcoming in Nature Communication Earth and Science in 2024, Asia-Pacific Environmental Law Journal /APJEL in 2023) and her newest edited book is entitled ‘Environmental Courts and Tribunals in Asia-Pacific’, published by Brill in 2024.

At APCEL, Linda focuses on comparative climate change law and policy in ASEAN. This adds to the centre’s focus on climate change law and its plans to become the knowledge hub on climate law in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia Pacific region.

Presentations

  • Panellist and Speaker, “Case Study of Renewable Energy Paradox in Rempang Island” at the International Workshop on Policies, Land, and Regulations for Land Management in Asian Countries. 4-6 June 2024, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Keynote Speaker at the Sabin Center-UNEP Annual Conference on Global Climate Litigation, 19-20 April 2022 
  • “Forest Digest event (FD is a magazine on Indonesia Forestry issues), on the new Presidential regulation on Carbon Pricing”, 9 March 2022
  • “ACICIS (Australian Consortium for In-country Indonesian Studies) on protecting tropical forest and climate change”, 11 January 2022
  • “APCEL Fireside Chat: COP26 Unmasked”, 29 November 2021
  • “New Constitutionalism and Rule of Law during the COVID-19 Pandemic” organised by NTHU KAS, 23 November 2021
  • “UNEP Environmental Courts and Tribunals (ECT) 2021” in Asia-Pacific Judicial Symposium on Best Practices in Environmental Courts and Adjudication by USAID Wildlife Asia, the Office of the President of the Supreme Court (OPSC), the Supreme Court of Thailand (SCT), and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) with assistance from Asian Research Institute for Environmental Law (ARIEL), 17-18 June 2021 (Zoom)
  • “Indonesian Parliament Slumber During COVID-19 Pandemic” in the International Round Table Discussion on “Covid-19 Pandemic and Rule of Law” by KAS-NTHU, 15-16 April 2021
  • COVID-19 response in Indonesia” in Global Pandemic Network (GPN) Webinar: COVID-19, Supernational, national and regional responses. Building resilence on comparisons of experiences, 5 March 2021.
  • “International Law in IPCC”,  APCEL-IPCC Webinar: Debunk-ing the Myths of IPCC, 3 September 2020
  • “Covid-19 and Climate Change, a Legal Perspective”, Symposium on Social Science 2020, 25 August 2020
  • COVID-19 and Climate Change Impacts” in Global Pandemic Network (GPN) Webinar: COVID-19 and Cities. Building Resilience on Human Rights and Environmental Protection, 15 July 2020
  • “COVID-19 and Climate Change Impacts in Asia” in Kathmandu Law Dialogue, University of Kathmandu, Nepal, 9 July 2020
  • COVID-19 has caused a rise in single-use plastics: Environmental Lawyer”, Street Signs Asia, CNBC, 22 June 2020
  • COVID-19 versus Climate Change Impacts: Lesson Learned during the Pandemic”, The Impact Lawyers podcast, 3 June 2020
  • COVID-19 and Climate Change in Asia: Opportunity or Red Herring?”, CALS Virtual Roundtables on Asian Law, 01 June 2020

Selected Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Linda Yanti Sulistiawati, ‘Marine Plastic Pollution Prevention in Indonesia’ in Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio and Linda Yanti Sulistiawati (eds), Marine Pollution Prevention and the Rule of Law (KAS-UC-KLRI-APCEL, 2021)
  • Linda Yanti Sulistiawati, ‘Indonesia Judiciary during the Pandemic: Staying Afloat in Troubled Water’ in Anton MZ Gao & Stefan Samse (eds), Judicial Review in the Pandemic: The Role of Courts in the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic in Asia and the Pacific (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Ltd. and Taiwan Association for Environment, Resource and Energy Law, 2022)
  • Yunita and Linda Yanti Sulistiawati, ‘Access to Justice in Indonesia: Searching for Meaning’ in Helena Whalen-Bridge ed., The Role of Lawyers in Access to Justice: Asian and Comparative Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Working Papers/Reports

Journal Articles

Commentary

 

  • Climate Change Law
  • International Environmental Law
  • Adat/Indigenous Law
  • Land Law and Environmental Issues
  • Law and Society / Law in Action
  • ASEAN and Indonesian Law
  • Marine Plastic Pollution
  • COVID-19

Research Projects

Measures to Counter Marine Plastic Pollution 

Asian Pacific countries are still struggling to reduce their plastic debris in the ocean. Main sources of marine plastic debris are land-based, from urban and storm runoff, sewer overflows, beach visitors, inadequate waste disposal management, industrial activities, construction and illegal dumping. Ocean based plastic originates mainly from the fishing industry, nautical activities and aquaculture. There is an urgent need to for Asia-Pacific countries to learn from each other best practices and challenges in combating marine plastic debris in the area.

This project consist of an online workshop that is co-organised with the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) National University of Singapore; Cebu University School of Law; Korean Law Research Institute (KLRI) and supported by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS).

The overall premise of this online workshop is to perceive forms of legal measures and governance comprising multiple stakeholders’ roles in combating marine plastic debris. Questions that will guide the workshop discussions can include:

  • What forms of legal measures exist in your country or in Southeast Asia to combat marine plastic debris?
  • To what extent do measures combating marine plastic debris include stakeholders?
  • Do the measures combating marine plastic debris involve other regimes of debris?
  • What can be done to increase international collaboration in combating marine plastic debris efforts?

COVID 19 and Global Pandemic Network

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has seen people go to ‘survival mode’ and push environmental preservation into the backseat. Although the closure of factories, cancelling of air transportation has accounted for lowering of emissions, these are only temporal, as economies attempt to revive themselves, it is likely that we will go back to the ‘status quo’ emissions once we are out of this COVID-19 situation.  In the meantime, waste and pollution problems have been on the rise putting our ecosystem is at risk.

On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) enhanced the outbreak status of COVID-19 from an epidemic to a pandemic.  This indicates that COVID-19 is highly contagious, with a high fatality rate and no effective medical treatment.[1] Thus, the WHO has urged countries to enact strategic policies to slow the spread of the virus and manage its impacts.

This project initiated by the Global Pandemic Network aims to document academic articles on COVID-19 Regulations globally, starting with Indonesia, where laws were already in place to allow the government to respond to the pandemic.  Under Article 12 of the Indonesian Constitution, the President has the authority to declare a state of emergency, where the conditions and subsequent measures for a state of emergency are to be explained in legislation.[2]  Other relevant legislation that authorises the government to take action includes the  Emergency Situation Law (Law No.74/1957 jo. Law No.23/1959), Contagious Diseases Law (Law No.4/1984), Disaster Management Law (Law No.24/2007), and Health Quarantine Law (Law No.6/2018).

[1] Amesh A. Adalja et al, “The Character of Pandemic Pathogen,” accessed June 5, 2020, https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2018/180510-pandemic-pathogens-report.pdf

[2] 1945 State Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. art. 12.

Environmental Courts & Tribunals: A Guide for Policy Makers (ECT Guide 2021)
with Jolene Lin

This project aims to provide a comprehensive update of the 2016 The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) publication, “Environmental Courts and Tribunals: A Guide for Policy Makers” by George W Pring and Catherine G Pring.

APCEL is the lead co-ordinator for the project and will focus our work on Asia, Australia-NZ and Oceania, North and South America, the Middle East, and the Pacific.  The University of Ghent in Rotterdam will assist in the study in Europe and Africa

 

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