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 Indonesias approach to such insurances and discusses the countrys 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/or Indonesian 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 Indonesias socio-political history.

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1. Introduction · 2. The comprehensive context of climate risk insurance · 2.1. General perspective: Climate risk insurance as a development policy programme · 2.2. Local perspective: Status quo of climate risk insurances in Indonesia · 3. Conceptual and theoretical framework · 3.1. The theory of frames and framing · 3.2. The Indonesian press and its significance in the past and the present · 3.3. Concrete research questions · 4. Methodical approach · 4.1. Frame analysis and content analysis · 4.2. Empirical study and methodical implementation · 5. Research results: The Indonesian way of framing climate risk insurances · 5.1. The general perception of climate risk insurances in Indonesia · 5.1.1. Frames for climate risk insurances applied in the Indonesian press · 5.1.2. Reflection of results based on the common international idea of climate risk insurances · 5.2. Framing within the relation of the Indonesian government and press · 5.2.1. Alternative frames for climate risk insurances created by journalists · 5.2.2. Reflection of results against the background of the specific interconnection between the government and the press · 6. Conclusion and outlook · Bibliography · Appendix: Code structure and list of codings.