countries to climate change, with a population of 250 million people spread across
thousands of islands and low-lying coastal areas. This paper investigates the political
challenges to introduce a carbon tax as a climate policy option in Indonesia. It is based on
the analysis of 29 in-depth elite interviews with key Indonesian stakeholders. It finds that,
while political elites seem, in principle, to be open to the idea of a carbon tax, they are also …