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
| 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
Selected Publications
Book Chapter
Working Papers/Reports
Journal Articles
Commentary
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- 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