In the context of global climate change climate risk insurances are generally highlighted as a
key element of adaptation to and management of global climate risks. This research is concerned
with Indonesia's approach to such insurances and discusses the country's motivation to
implement a national climate risk insurance programme. By drawing on media theories on frames
and framing and by using frame analysis this study identifies six frames that the Indonesian
government and orIndonesian journalists apply with regard to interpreting climate risk
insurances and locates the results in the wider international discourse. In addition the
analysis of both governmental and journalistic frames also allows to assess the present
relation between the government and the press which looks back at a very specific
interconnection due to Indonesia's socio-political history.
