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Developing Sustainability Indicators by Communities
This is the abstract of my article published in the International Journal of the Humanities 8 (4), 2010. For complete article or the journal volume, please visit the website http://www.humanities-journal.com
Category:ScienceReads:174Uploaded:10 / 27 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionRedressing Equity Issues in Natural Resource-Rich Regions
This is the abstract of my article in a book entitled "Environmental Ethics, Sustainability and Education", edited by Estelle L. Weber, published by Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, United Kingdom in 2009. For the complete version, please visit the website: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ The Inter-Disciplinary Press is part of Inter-Disciplinary.Net – a global network for research and publishing. The Inter-Disciplinary Press aims to promote and encourage the kind of work which is collaborative, innovative, imaginative, and which provides an exemplar for inter-disciplinary and multidisciplinary publishing.
Category:ScienceReads:136Uploaded:10 / 27 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionCONTESTING VALUES IN AGROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN INDONESIA
This is another article from Tataloka Journal, authored by Prihadi Nugroho. I am in the editorial board of this journal and already have permission from the author to publish it in my Scribd. The Indonesian Government introduced agropolitan development policy in 2002. This policy offers an integral approach for accelerated rural development. There are at least three key values the government intends to promote in this policy: social equity, self-reliance, and self-sufficiency. Basically they relate to one another to underpin the policy existence, but the government tends to promote social equity as the dominant value. The reasoning of this preference does not only rest on the nature of government responsibility to redistribute welfare across the country, but also is shaped by the ‘new’ recognition of its importance to national economy, in particular in contributing to overcome economic shocks. The experience from the 1997 Asian Crisis portrayed how the agriculture and rural sectors remained important in providing supportive livelihood for urban workers. While a plenty of urban industries collapsed during the Crisis which resulted in a sudden massive unemployment, these sectors could create employment opportunities through informal sectors and small and medium businesses. However, it seems that the government only advances agropolitan development with regard to its merits to relieving increased critics to government to recover national economy. I argue that the introduction of agropolitan development policy only represents the government politics to strengthen its credibility instead of paying greater attention to the improvement of agriculture and rural sectors. This policy has merely demonstrated the practice of instrumental rationality model, where the government tends to weight the importance of particular values with regard to their pragmatic functions to overcome development problems in particular context of time and place (Thacher & Rein 2004, pp.457-458). This paper then is aimed to scrutinise how this model is relevant to balancing value conflicts in the agropolitan development policy.
Category:Business & EconomicsReads:2,624Uploaded:08 / 27 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionPLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT: Some Issues on the Policy to Develop a New Large Settlement in Mijen Suburb of Semarang, Indonesia
This article, written by the author in 1998, was originally among the lecture notes of a new subject, i.e. Sustainable Development, taught in the Master of Urban and Regional Development Program of Diponegoro University in 2000. Attempts to ensure sustainability have now been widespread, both in developed and developing countries. In urban development, an important strategy would be minimising the use of two main urban resources, land and energy, at a certain level of economy. However, development policy is often driven by the power of investors that would overlook sustainability purposes. In Semarang City of Indonesia, for example, a new large settlement is allocated in Mijen, an area of which has for a long time been functioning as a water catchment and reservation for the city. As far as sustainable urban development is concerned, this policy is certainly questionable . This short article discusses the implications of the policy to sustainable development of Semarang City. The new large settlement has finally been built though, known as ‘Bukit Semarang Baru’ new town. After around 5 years of its operation now, an evaluation study focusing on the urban sustainability impacts is urgently needed.
Category:ScienceReads:2,456Uploaded:04 / 30 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionFinancing Slum Upgrading in Indonesia: Can Sustainability Reinvestment Help?
This paper has been presented at CIB-W110 International Conference in Surakarta, April 16, 2009. Sheltering for the urban poor of developing countries, like Indonesia, has been facing problems. Slums, characterised by crowded, unhealthy environment, poor quality buildings, and lacking public facilities and infrastructure have been of much concern. Around 24-62% of urban population in developing countries live in this kind of housing with no sign of decreasing trend. Despite promising progresses, sustainability is still the main challenge for slum upgrading, in which financing is an important aspect. The paper seeks a theoretical foundation of utilising sustainability reinvestment scheme, a somewhat forgotten function in Indonesia, to help financing slum upgrading. Sustainability reinvestment is among the methods of ensuring intra- and inter-generational equity in development, in which a significant portion of development benefits is reinvested for sustaining development. It is usually applied for restoring environmental damage caused by the development activities based, among others, on polluters pay principle. However, since hardly are people living in slums out of their freewill, inequity in development process must have something to do with it. Slum inhabitants are most probably deprived from their rights to get equitable benefits from development. Therefore, the application of sustainability reinvestment can be extended to include financing slum upgrading. By this, slum upgrading becomes an integrated part in ensuring sustainable development. Among the policy implications is tax policy reformulation. A new post in the tax yield, namely sustainability reinvestment pool, can be created. Equitable compensation for slum dwellers should be available from this post, and this would help financing slum upgrading.
Category:ResearchReads:2,548Uploaded:04 / 17 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionPresentation - Financing Slum Upgrading: Can Sustainability Reinvestment Help?
Sheltering for the urban poor of developing countries, like Indonesia, has been facing problems. Slums, characterised by crowded, unhealthy environment, poor quality buildings, and lacking public facilities and infrastructure have been of much concern. Around 24-62% of urban population in developing countries live in this kind of housing with no sign of decreasing trend. Despite promising progresses, sustainability is still the main challenge for slum upgrading, in which financing is an important aspect. The paper seeks a theoretical foundation of utilising sustainability reinvestment scheme, a somewhat forgotten function in Indonesia, to help financing slum upgrading. Sustainability reinvestment is among the methods of ensuring intra- and inter-generational equity in development, in which a significant portion of development benefits is reinvested for sustaining development. It is usually applied for restoring environmental damage caused by the development activities based, among others, on polluters pay principle. However, since hardly are people living in slums out of their freewill, inequity in development process must have something to do with it. Slum inhabitants are most probably deprived from their rights to get equitable benefits from development. Therefore, the application of sustainability reinvestment can be extended to include financing slum upgrading. By this, slum upgrading becomes an integrated part in ensuring sustainable development. Among the policy implications is tax policy reformulation. A new post in the tax yield, namely sustainability reinvestment pool, can be created. Equitable compensation for slum dwellers should be available from this post, and this would help financing slum upgrading. KEYWORDS: intra- and inter-generational equity, slum upgrading, sustainable development, sustainable financing.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:658Uploaded:04 / 15 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionSpatial Management in Disaster Prone Regions
A lecture presentation on spatial planning and management in disaster prone regions, like Aceh and Central Java of Indonesia.
Category:School WorkReads:795Uploaded:03 / 10 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionSocial Inequality AS#2
A lecture presentation discussing such questions: what is social inequality, how it happens, why this matters, and if so, what to do then?
Category:HomeworkReads:537Uploaded:03 / 10 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionAlleviating Poverty through Equity Based Development Agung Sugiri
Poverty in Indonesia is caused more by structural equity failures worsened by negative global forces, than by improper behaviour, like laziness of the people. This can be seen, for example, in the insufficiency of job creations and poor access to good public services and facilities for the worse-off people, like housing, water, education and health, banking, etc. Policies and programs to alleviate poverty have been considered inadequate, as can be seen in the fluctuative characteristic of poverty incidence during the last ten years. All this, along with recognisable, deep, economic inequality reveals the need of public policy refinement. As sustainable development requires that intra- and inter-generational equity be insured, public policy should encourage the application of equity, or be able to resolve the existing inequity problems. By this, the optimal situation in which a person can be better off without causing others to be worse off, can be achieved. While still having natural resources as the main potential, to ensure and sustain appropriate level of welfare for the people, Indonesian development should apply equity in four main areas, i.e. in the benefit distribution to the people, in the production function of natural resources, in the nonproduction function, and in the reinvestment for sustainable development. Failures in applying equity in the benefit distribution, for example, would end up to problems of poverty and economic inequality. Meanwhile, inequity in the production function would cause severe problems of benefit leakages to foreign countries, along with the threat of unsustainability due to excessive exploitation. All of this can easily be identified at the moment. Therefore, to solve poverty and inequality problems, it is necessary to reform and to renew related public policies, the correct and corruption-free implementation of which will bring sustainable welfare to all Indonesian people. This presentation proposes an introductory attempt to public policy reformulation that can help resolving the problems of poverty and economic inequality in Indonesia.
Category:School WorkReads:785Uploaded:03 / 09 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionParticipatory Planning in Aceh - URDI-GTZ Seminar, 25-26 July 2008
This paper has been presented at the URDI-GTZ Seminar on the Sustainability of People Participation in Development, Yogyakarta, 25-26 July 2008. It is based on the author's experience in introducing an innovative approach to build and to encourage community capability in monitoring and evaluating the implementation of RDTR (Detailed Spatial Plan) of Kembang Tanjong district in Pidie, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam. Through converting academic planning language into the daily life one, with certainly some consequences of simplification, it is finally proven that the people of Kembang Tanjong can properly participate not only in the planning process, but also in the monitoring and evaluation stages. Keywords: Aceh, development evaluation, Indonesia, participatory approach, urban and regional planning
Category:Arts & ArchitectureReads:2,044Uploaded:03 / 09 / 2009ShareAdd to collection
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