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Traffic and Change of School Start Time
A policy proposed by the Jakarta city administration to advance the start of school hours from 7:00 a.m. to 06:30 a.m. sparked controversy from the public. The policy that was aimed at overcoming the...
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Economic Crisis and Public Works Projects
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Jakarta Annual Flooding in February 2009
February is the month when rainfall in Jakarta and other areas in Indonesia are highest and floods become a threat for residents. This year’s February also witnessed floods in many parts of Jakarta...
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The Collapse of Situ Gintung Dam and Poor Enforcement of Spatial Plans
The Situ Gintung dam in Cireundeu, Tangerang broke on March 27, 2009 and killed at least 99 people (Kompas April 1, 2009) and still counting since there are about 100 people reportedly missing. The dam...
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Envisioning City without Cars
Traffic congestion is one of the chronic problems in most Indonesian cities and this problem is getting worse year by year. The growth of road developments in Indonesian cities is much slower than the...
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This blog in the GPEIG Newsletter
amazing, originally uploaded by BESTPHOTO.In the early September 2009, I received an email from Dr. Vinit Mukhija, an associate professor of urban planning at UCLA who is also a co-chair of GPEIG, that...
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A city without social justice: Jakarta needs more green space, but not the...
This post was published in Inside Indonesia, an Australian magazine, in the October-December 2009 edition. Following is the link to the article:http://insideindonesia.org/content/view/1246/47/DSC01412,...
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Restoring Green Areas in Jakarta
New Style Gas Station, originally uploaded by cyberlucky.On November 8, 2009 Jakarta’s Governor Fauzi Bowo closed and locked a gas station located on Jl. Jendral Sudirman to symbolically close down 27...
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Climate Change and Urban Development
Welcome-to-the-Greenhouse, originally uploaded by mix's.This post is an English version of my article published in the Indonesian newspaper of Kompas on Tuesday, December 15, 2009.The attention to...
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The flawed planning process of the 2030 Jakarta spatial plan
Jakarta's skyline , originally uploaded by Deden Rukmana.The Jakarta administration has been preparing the 2030 Jakarta spatial plan, an important and comprehensive document for shaping the future of...
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Jakarta Annual Flooding in February 2010
I have written on the floods in Jakarta every year since 2007 when the worst flood in memory inundated about 70 percent of the city, killed at least 57 people and sent about 450,000 fleeing their...
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Citarum floods and urban planning
We are deeply saddened by the overflow of Citarum River that inundated the Southern Bandung and the City and Regency of Karawang a few weeks ago. The material losses from the floods could reach...
View ArticleUrban Planning and Local Wisdom: The Shift toward Postmodernism and a New...
[This post is my article that was presented at the Yogyakarta International Seminar organized by the Faculty of Cultural Science of Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta on January 27, 2010. The paper is...
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Six elevated toll roads should be revisited
The Jakarta city administration will start to build six elevated toll roads in 2011 after receiving the permits from the Ministry of Public Work. In the first phase, the city administration will build...
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Jakarta needs Metro to avoid traffic gridlock
After reading the Economist magazine September 2010 issue, I realized that Jakarta had a new call: the largest city in the world without a metro. The Economist reported that the car ownerships in...
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Concerted steps to disentangle Jakarta traffic congestions
Many policies have been offered by the central government and the Jakarta city administration to disentangle the Jakarta chronic traffic congestions. Vice President Boediono, after the meeting with...
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Jakarta's city planning: What can we do and what can we expect?
City planning can be defined as a systematic attempt and action in the public domain to shape the future of urban areas. City planners are expected to collect and analyze data about every aspect of a...
View ArticlePlanning theory derived from planning practices in Indonesia
The gap between planning theory and practice has been identified for years (Alexander 1997; Brooks 2002; Sanyal 2002). Planning practice and planning theory have two distinctive communities of interest...
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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...
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Promoting 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...
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