Community-based adaptation (CBA) is a new approach that is attractive because it is a process of planning led by the community, based on community priorities, needs, knowledge and capacity - a process that should empower people to plan for climate change impacts (Hordijk and baud, 2010). Governance at the community level regarded to be a way to help them in adapting and maintain their livelihood on the coastal so that they can remain in the region. Governance in community engaged individual communities to group and jointly manages their livelihoods and conservation in their coastal areas. The intervention of the government and non-government organizations also play a role in the process of adaptation that occurs. This paper aim to elaborate the role of local champion in CBA process. Interesting findings from Tapak Village, Semarang who have done their community-based adaptation process is that the involvement of the community in the adaptation to climate change is greatly influenced by the presence of local champion in the region. The existence of networks between community and the relevant stakeholders in both the government and non-government organizations also became one of the supporting factors for the sustainability of community-based adaptation processes in coastal areas of Semarang City.

Urban development in Indonesia has been notably figured out with the development of coastal area as the place to provide regional-international trade having the control of labour. Hence, coastal cities and the surrounding areas are rapidly growing to urbanized area. However, rapid development with limited carrying capacity and climate related issues of coastal area has become the challenges of their development. Meanwhile, the growth of inland city also started to gain some attentions. In Central Java, for instance, the emerging of inland city centre has become a new phenomenon in urbanization. Parakan, one of the inland cities in Central Java selected as the study area due to the growing of rural-urban characteristic. This new inland city centre is a part of Temanggung Region, Central Java strategically located in the national road of Semarang to Purwokerto. The intention of this paper is to elaborate the growth of inland city in Central Java, especially in Parakan. The GIS is utilized to analyse the spatial changes in Parakan meanwhile the economic aspects are analysed to find out the indication of shifting economic activities within the city. From the analysis, it is found that changes in population appear in urban area as one of indicators of urbanization in Parakan inland city. As a consequence, the economic activities and the GDP also experience changes due to the growing of urbanized area. The growing of Parakan has been proven that the urbanization phenomenon in Central Java occurs in the inland city inferring that the urbanization pattern in Indonesia, specifically in Central Java, is not only limited to the growth of the coastal cities.