How children's books are raising environmental awareness in Indonesia

Indonesian courts have seen a steady increase in climate litigation over the past decade. Last year alone, the indigenous Knasaimos peoples in Southwest Papua won a long fight for legal land rights, while citizens in South Sumatra sued three pulpwood companies for burning in their concessions that contributed to toxic haze air pollution. While these cases could have substantial impacts on the environmental rights of Indonesians and their children, raising awareness about climate litigation has been challenging for environmental campaigners, said environmental lawyer Sekar Banjaran Aji, who is also a campaigner for Greenpeace Indonesia. In response, Greenpeace Indonesia worked with journalist and author Titah Aw and illustrator Sekar Bestari to produce a series of children’s books that simplified these topics into narratives that could be easily understood. In this podcast, they share: *How they combined key facts and imaginative elements to tell climate stories *Why it is important for stories of climate change and litigation to be told more widely *What parents and children have learned from reading the books *How the author and illustrator’s own experiences with nature shaped their environmental advocacy

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