Jakarta Annual Flooding in February 2011
Since I started this blog in January 2007, I have recorded all floods in Jakarta in this blog. Interestingly, the worst floods occured in Jakarta during the month of February when rainfall in Jakarta...
View ArticlePromoting Bike Lanes in Jakarta
On May 22, 2011, Jakarta set a new milestone towards a healthier and more livable city. The Jakarta administration inaugurated the first Jakarta’s dedicated bicycle lane stretching 1.5 kilometers from...
View ArticleBook review: The Appearances of Memory by Abidin Kusno
On May 26, 2010, I received an email from the editor of Pacific Affairs who invited me to review a new book titled The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in...
View ArticleNew Elevated Roads will not Ease Jakarta's Traffic Woes
On February 6, 2012, Jakarta Globe reported the ongoing construction work of two elevated roads: 5.5 kilometers Antasari-Blok M and 2.3 kilometers Casablanca-Sudirman. The city officials said the works...
View ArticleNew Transportation in Jakarta: What to Expect from Governor Jokowi
The official result of Jakarta's gubernatorial election has been announced by the Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPU Jakarta) on September 29, 2012. The KPU Jakarta declared that Joko Widodo,...
View ArticleJakarta's Perennial Flooding Woes in 2012
The Jakarta Globe reported on November 19, 2012 that surging waters following torrential rains in Jakarta killed at least one person. The floods caused structural damage to some buildings, crippled...
View ArticleJakarta annual flooding in January 2013
This post was aimed to document the flood that inundated Jakarta in January 2013. Many parts of Jakarta were inundated following heavy rain on January 16, 2017. The floods killed at least 20 people and...
View ArticleBuilding urban resilience
Resilience has rapidly become a popular term in many disciplines including the discipline of urban planning. In the last few years, the concept of resilience is increasingly used in urban policy and...
View ArticleThe Megacity of Jakarta: Problems, Challenges and Planning Efforts
In September 2013, I received an invitation from the Moscow Urban Forum to submit an article on Jakarta. The Moscow Urban Forum was an international event for experts, investors, and potential partners...
View ArticleUrbanist Credentials of Indonesia's New President
Joko Widodo was sworn in as Indonesia’s seventh president on October 20th in Jakarta and succeeded Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono who stepped down after serving two five-year terms. Mr. Widodo, popularly...
View ArticleSpace Provision for Street Vendors
On November 5, 2012, The Jakarta Globe reported that the Jakarta administration plan to provide permanent areas for street vendors. The Jakarta Deputy Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama had discussed this...
View ArticleThe Change and Transformation of Indonesian Spatial Planning
On February 9, 2015, my newest article was published by International Planning Studies and available online here. The article title is "The change and transformation of Indonesian spatial planning...
View ArticleThe Transformation of Indonesian Housing Policies
Indonesia, with a population of over 250 million, has been experiencing rapid urbanization in the last few decades. This rapid urbanization has caused many problems in Indonesian cities. The issue of...
View ArticleFlood Governance in Jakarta: The Role of CBOs in Mitigating Annual Floods
Flood in Kampung Muara. Photo courtesy of Bunga Sirait. FlickThis post was published by Middle East Institute on January 7, 2016. Following is the link to the article:...
View ArticleProblems and Challenges in Jakarta Caused by Rapid Urbanization
In September 2016, I received an invitation from an editor of Velvet Cell Journal to submit an article about Jakarta. This journal is a blog of the Velvet Cell publisher. The Velvet Cell published...
View ArticleCorruption in Spatial Planning
I was invited to give a lecture at the Yale Indonesia Forum Dialogue on April 21, 2017. The other guest lecture was M. Chatib Basri, a former Indonesian Minister of Finance. On the following day, Mr....
View ArticleRapid Urbanization and the Need for Sustainable Transportation Policies in...
I was one of the keynote speakers of the 2016 International Conference on Science, Infrastructure Technology and Regional Development (ICoSITeR) hosted by the Sumatera Institute of Technology on...
View ArticleBook review: Jakarta Drawing the City Near by AbdouMaliq Simone
On August 20, 2014, I received an email from the book review editor of Journal of Planning Education & Research (JPER) who invited me to review a new book titled Jakarta: Drawing the City Near by...
View ArticleUpgrading Housing Settlement for Jakarta's Poor Residents
The number of urban population in Indonesia increased significantly from 101.3 million in 2000 to 137.6 million in 2015. This rapid urbanization has caused many problems including the lack of housing...
View ArticleSuburbanization in Asia: A focus in Jakarta
This post is one of the chapters in the book titled "The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs" edited by Bernadette Hanlon and Thomas J. Vicino. The book was published by the Routledge in September 2018....
View ArticleA Review of Jakarta: The Indonesia's Primate City
Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced his plan to move the capital of Indonesia out of Jakarta after a cabinet meeting on Monday, April 29, 2019. One of the reasons of the plan is Jakarta is...
View ArticlePlanning Megacities in the Global South
I am thrilled to announce the publication of my new edited book "The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South". The book is the culmination of my research interest on various...
View ArticleShaping the Global South
In late September 2020, I was invited by the editor of Topos magazine, a professional magazine for landscape architectures, urban designers, & urban planners based in Germany, to write an article...
View ArticleIncome Inequality and Socioeconomic Segregation in Jakarta
I am pleased to share here my newest publication with my coauthor, Dinar Ramadhani, which is a chapter of the open access book titled "Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality: A Global...
View ArticleRoutledge Handbook of Urban Indonesia
After more than two years in the making, my co-editor, Sonia Roitman of the University of Queensland, and I are thrilled to announce our new edited book, "Routledge Handbook of Urban Indonesia". We...
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