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Comment: Jakarta without a master plan
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Feb. 12, p. 6
Believe it or not. The Jakarta urban development budget for 2011 was passed without a clear legal umbrella. This is related to the master plan or the spatial planning (RUTR) of Greater Jakarta for 2010-2030.
Currently there are no regulations on the applicable master plan because the 2000-2010 Jakarta master plan has already expired, while the draft master plan for 2010-2030 should have been passed in Jakarta before 2010 ends.
This is clearly a bad precedent for the development of Jakarta, because it proved that the development of the city can continue to take place without the need for a master plan. So do not be surprised if Jakarta has chaotic urban spatial planning, traffic jams, flooding and is only getting worse.
The absence of the master plan and the slow adoption of Jakarta’s 2010-2030 master plan indicates attraction between the interests of the provincial government, the House of Representatives and major developers. (By Nirwono Joga, Jakarta)
Your comments:
A master plan without an action plan (schedule, conditions, where the budget will come from and when it will be available, etc.) is not a master plan. Or is it only a compilation of developers’ master plans?
Teguh Utomo Atmoko
Depok, West Java
Master plans in Indonesia don’t work for two reasons: First, the
planners learn the topic in university from ideas developed in rich countries.
The plans don’t work so well there either. Just have a look at the soullessness of planned cities such as Basilia or Canberra. The bourgeois urban dream of spacious pedestrian boulevards does not work well in Indonesia because such dreams fail to take into account the social needs of poor street vendors to earn a living.
But urban plans fail in Indonesia for a second reason; even the best of plans are soon forgotten and ignored. The power of the brown envelope, passed from greedy developer to corrupt planner, overcomes all urban plans whether good or bad.
To test if this statement is true, simply compare urban master plans made a few decades ago to what has been built on the ground.
Indonesia’s urban plans are never going to work until corrupt planning officials start getting charged in court and jailed.
Kenin James
Batam
