Expanding Knowledge from the Roots and the South
In September 2024, I received an email invitation from John Forester to write an essay on inspirations in planning for Planning Theory & Practice. John Forester is one of the leading and respected...
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Routledge 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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Income 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...
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Shaping 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...
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Planning 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 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...
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Suburbanization 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....
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Upgrading 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...
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Book 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...
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Rapid 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...
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Corruption 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....
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Problems 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...
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Flood 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:...
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The 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...
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The 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...
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Space 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...
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Urbanist 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...
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The 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...
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Building 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...
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Jakarta 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...
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