Delik Hudalah

Spatial Planning System in Transitional Indonesia

ABSTRACT This paper discusses the interaction between institutional-cultural forces and globalizing neo-liberal ideas in the discussion on the formulation of the draft of new Spatial Planning Act in Indonesia. Although the neo-liberal ideas cannot change the whole nature of the planning system, this paper shows that they fragment the system and conflict with the existing institutional-cultural forces. It argues that the ideas of rule of law and decentralization, as promoted by the neo-liberalism, should be encouraged in order to develop a more effective planning system in Indonesia.

Industrial Land Development and Manufacturing Deconcentration in Greater Jakarta

Abstract Industrial land development has become a key feature of urbanization in Greater Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Southeast Asia. Following Suhartos market-oriented policy measures in the late 1980s, private developers have dominated the land development projects in Greater Jakarta. The article investigates the extent to which these private industrial centers have effectively reduced the domination of Jakarta in shaping the entire metropolitan structure. The analysis indicates that major suburban industrial centers have captured most of the manufacturing employment that has dispersed from Jakarta. The industrial centers have now increasingly specialized and diversified. It is likely that a polycentric metropolitan structure will emerge in the future.

Policy networking as capacity building: An analysis of regional road development conflict in Indonesia

This article explores the potential of policy networking as an important aspect of capacity building. It deals with a road development project related to the regional planning issue of North Bandung Area (NBA), a water catchment area facing the expansion of Bandung Metropolitan Area, West Java, Indonesia. The debate on the road development proposal is reconstructed to illustrate how an environmental policy network is built by committed experts, politicians, NGO activists and journalists to prevent a pro-growth project from realization. The analysis also indicates the potential contribution of such a network to the transformation of governance that is more responsive to the issues of environmental quality and regional sustainability. This potential contribution is reflected by the role of the policy network in the mobilization of discursive knowledge, empowerment of weak actors, and social learning in the decision-making process.

Gentrifying the peri-urban: Land use conflicts and institutional dynamics at the frontier of an Indonesian metropolis

This paper aims to specify the meaning of gentrification in rapidly peri-urbanising metropolitan regions in the context of Indonesia’s rapid transition to decentralisation and democracy. It discusses a case study of conflict over an environmental revitalisation project in a peri-urban area of Bandung City. The analysis focuses on the political processes, tactics and strategies supporting and opposing peri-urban gentrification and their consequences. The analysis illustrates how these political dynamics mediate the interaction between the movement of capital and the spatial reorganisation of social classes. It is argued that in the context of a peri-urbanising metropolis, gentrification needs to be narrated less in terms of class-based neighbourhood succession and more in terms of competing cross-class coalitions emerging at local and regional levels.

PERI-URBAN PLANNING FOR DEVELOPING EAST ASIA: LEARNING FROM CHENGDU, CHINA AND YOGYAKARTA/KARTAMANTUL, INDONESIA

ABSTRACT: More than one hundred million people will settle in the peri-urban areas surrounding the urban areas of city regions in the developing countries of East Asia in the next decade. These areas are the epicenter of world urbanization where the greatest opportunities and most pressing problems coexist. Yet no East Asian city-region has a peri-urban plan. This article describes the nature of East Asian peri-urban areas and the peri-urbanization process occurring there today. It describes typical sites in peri-urban areas requiring remediation and which present potential problems and opportunities in the future. Drawing on the authors’ research in Chengdu, China and the Yogyakarta/Kartamantul region of Indonesia, the article describes how innovative decision-making and governance and coordinated regional plans and policies can remediate and prevent problems and capitalize on opportunities in peri-urban areas. New peri-urban village, Chengdu, China, (2013).

Leadership and collaborative planning: The case of Surakarta, Indonesia

This article examines the extent to which leadership factors contribute to the success of collaborative planning processes. By examining the best practice in urban management in decentralizing Indonesia, we found that leadership encouraged a trustworthy and effective consensus building between the local government and the communities. The local leaders grasped socio-cultural contexts of the city to formulate communication strategies in a way that encourages an open and informal atmosphere flourished. More importantly, this leadership framework effectively restructured the institutional arrangement and created divisible tasks for subordinates and communities who were involved in the collaborative process.

Cultural Cooperation, Institution Building and Metropolitan Governance in Decentralizing Indonesia

The institutional turn in metropolitan governance has been influenced to a considerable degree by a rational choice approach, which views metropolitan governance as essentially created by local actors to reduce the transaction costs of inter-jurisdictional public-service provision. Another influential theoretical route follows a historical approach, which emphasizes the role of the state structure in producing formal institutions to enable governance at the regional level. Both approaches tend to be formalistic, simplistic and deterministic in nature, thus neglecting the dynamic interactions between the actors and their more informal, intangible, yet more basic, legitimate institutions, such as culture. This article examines the dynamic role of culture in metropolitan governance building in the context of decentralizing Indonesia. The analysis focuses on ‘best-practice’ experiences of metropolitan cooperation in greater Yogyakarta, where three neighbouring local governments known as Kartamantul have collaboratively performed cross-border infrastructure development to deal with the consequences of extended urbanization. We draw on sociological institutionalism to argue that building this metropolitan cooperation has its roots in the capacity of the actors to use and mobilize culture as a resource for collaborative action.

Regional Governance in Decentralizing Indonesia: Learning from the Success of Urban-Rural Cooperation in Metropolitan Yogyakarta

Asian urbanization has been typified by, among other things, the growth of rural-urban regions, in which functional urban areas have extended beyond established city boundaries into their immediate rural zones. In dealing with this extended urbanization, in the context of decentralizing Indonesia, urban-rural cooperation has become an important issue. This chapter explores key success factors of interlocal government cooperation in Greater Yogyakarta, which has shown evidence of effective regional infrastructure provision and rural environmental protection. By assessing the mechanism, process, and typology of the cooperation practiced, it reveals that there are several key success factors enabling effective interaction and collaboration between the participating urban and rural governments. The key success factors include common vision sharing and the building of strong leadership, a horizontal dialogue process, and openness and transparency.