Urban Guerrilla Newsletter Vol.1 Jakarta

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the Secret Trail In jakarta

How to Enhance

Jakarta’s Streets ?

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What does Jakarta need to do to get healthier

What is the mayor’s role?

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More for Jakarta’s flooding from a landscape perspective

and wealthier ?

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WORD FROM EDITOR

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Here in the first Urban Guerrilla newsletter, we try to write about issues, with connectivity as the main topic.

On the other side, Explore we try to see another perspective of looking at Jakarta. It’s about quality of People and Place! – Cases for Jakarta

08 RUNNING IN JAKARTA NEIGHBORHOODS Imagine if we have a network of neighborhood jogging trails within our city, connecting each of our neighborhoods to major destinations using secondary access as a trail.

10 ENHANCING CONNECTIVITY IN JAKARTA Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan cities in Southeast Asia, has a tremendous rate of population growth and a wide range of urban problems – connectivity is one of them.

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DYSFUNCTIONAL PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES IN JAKARTA

HUMANIST CITY FOR PEDESTRIANS

INITIAL STEPS TOWARDS WEALTHIER AND HEALTHIER JAKARTA

It is possible for Jakarta to be a step ahead of Singapore or Minneapolis – opportunities for providing better spaces for pedestrians.

To tackling the environmental impact in the future, Jakarta needs to undertake emission reductions actions by implementing the action plan (RADGRK) which can directly and indirectly lead to a wealthier and healthier Jakarta.

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EVENTS AND PLACES

From Bogota to Jakarta

WATER SENSITIVE URBAN DESIgn AT THE SMALL SCALE

Many countries that have a large GDP are also successful in their city performance. It’s not only about contributions from permanent residents that live, work and play in the city, it’s also about the non-permanent residents and tourists that visit for a permanent object /attraction or annual events in the city. How to combine events and places?

Imagine if we have network of a neighborhood jogging trails within our city, connecting each of our neighborhood to major destination using secondary access.

Prevention is easier and cheaper than fixing the damage from a flood. Here, with the rain garden concept we give natural solutions to flooding in Jakarta.

Pedestrian bridges or pedestrian overpasses are a necessary part of the overall transportation network and help pedestrians get safely from one point to another.

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WORD FROM EDITOR Welcome to the first edition of Capture! This is an internal newsletter for the Urban Guerrillas to express their ideas and thoughts about urban issues. Often, we get caught up in the mundane parts of our jobs as planners, designers and analysts, and we lost touch with the reality of the city. We live and work in Jakarta, a city of 10 million which is facing hyper-urbanization issues of traffic congestion, pollution, environmental degradation, crime and uneven development. Sometime the city suffocates us … bringing us down and we often cry : “Jakarta OH Jakarta…”.

These city issues are particularly noticeable to us, the professionals that are dealing with urban design and planning. Instead of holing ourselves in the office and just cursing about the city, we are trying to write, reflect and to some extent… suggest some potential solutions for our city of Jakarta. Some of the articles touch on connectivity, some talk about open space and a healthy lifestyle. I would like to thank our Guerrilla writers for their positive attitude and passion in sharing and contributing to this edition.

We hope this will be a starting point for a continuous effort towards a better place and quality of life for all of us and one day we can shout : “Jakarta YES Jakarta ! “. ..

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CATCHING IDEAS Look! From here I can see the lake. It’s quite big!

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JAKARTA OH JAKARTA Living and working in Jakarta has never been easy for anyone. Geographically, Jakarta’s area is about 650km2, with a population of 8.9 million (at night) and 11 million (during the day).

That’s a 2.1 million person difference between night and day, showing that Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital city, is a job magnet. Surrounding Jakarta, Bodetabek (Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi) has a population of 20 million because of the opportunities in Jakarta. Jakarta’s topography is 40% lowlands and thirty river estuaries cross the expanse of Jakarta City.

Here, in the first Urban Guerrilla newsletter, we try to write about issues regarding connectivity and accessibility. These too are concerns confronting the new governor.

Starting with an explanation on connectivity issues, talking about pedestrian access underground, up to the pedestrian bridge, and supporting activity in the Kebayoran Baru area.

Our point of view as Urban Designers allows us to have a sensitivity for a liveable environment.

This issue of Capture! delivers articles about a wealthier and healthier city, events as economic generators, and presents a case study from Trans Jakarta busway sister city, Bogota, Colombia. It also looks at the landscape approach for addressing rainwater that comes from other regions to Jakarta.

These articles are our point of view as we observe and highlight development opportunities in Jakarta - it’s not always about built a new one. It’s about “Optimization”.

It’s about quality of people and place! – CASES FOR JAKARTA

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Hello Jakarta! I just visited one of your shopping mall. The tenants is simillar with the other one.

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“Jakarta will always be an attractive city for Indonesian people. The ability of economic power, social layers, entertainment and access are things that make Jakarta bigger every year. Some people say it’s already overcrowded here, some say they stay only for a better life, others just love it and see Jakarta from other perspective.”

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CATCHING IDEAS / RUNNNING IN JAKARTA NEIGHBORHOOD

RUNNING IN JAKARTA NEIGHBORHOODS Words by Mohamad Nurhadi

Running, one of the most basic sports which has become a recent trend in Jakarta.

Almost every Sunday morning hundreds of runners releasing their endorphins down the road stretched from Monas all the way to Senayan during Car Free Day, a weekly event on the busiest street in the city, where no vehicles are allowed access from 6 AM till 11 AM.

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The enthusiasm of the Jakartans during this particular period indicates how they are dying for public open space, where they can enjoy fresh air without worrying about any vehicular interface which rarely exists within the city.

It is the government’s job to provide public space facilities for its citizen’s welfare but apparently it hasn’t been maximized yet.

Well, let’s stop whining how crappy our public facilities are. See what we currently have and make something out of it.

Learning from other major cities where the government takes providing public space seriously for its citizens, giving us insight into the way they encourage people to do more outdoor activity by providing convenient and exciting public spaces. Singapore with its park connectors where all parks within the island are seamlessly connected; Melbourne with its famous Yarra River providing backbones

for major open spaces such as The Royal Botanical Garden and the Docklands, giving a dynamic environment experience from natural to urban feel; Sydney with its seamless bike connectors where you can ride your bike conveniently within the city; and all other major advanced cities around the globe.

Back to our beloved Jakarta, given the limited resources of public space, where else would people go to run for their daily exercise?

Based on a glimpse observation, most people would go to a major sports complex such as Gelora Bung Karno or run on a treadmill like a hamster in the gym which located relatively far away from their home and both costs time and money. One of the options is by utilizing neighborhood roads as jogging trails. It has all basic criteria for a convenient running session: less polluted street compared to the main roads, less vehicle interface, providing

adequate shade, located right in front of your door, and it’s all free! All you need to do is just put on your shoes and run, baby, run!

However, at some point, people will find running on the same neighborhood road is kind of boring as they see the same scenery over and over again. This is referred as “the wall”, a cross point where we decide to break it and continue or just throw in the towel.

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Imagine if we have a network or map of a neighborhood jogging trails within our city, connecting each of our neighborhoods to major destinations using secondary access. Each of the trails containing information about the trail length, where it is connected to, and what the surrounding environments look like.

This information could be displayed through signage or using smartphone sports applications which most people use to count their miles. People could choose how long and how far they want to run, 5K, 10K, 21K, or even a 42K full marathon using secondary roads as a trail. At the end of the day, these networks also could also applied to other sport activities such as cycling and walking around the ‘hood, or as Indonesian say “Jalan jalan sore”.

Let’s take Kebayoran Baru district as an instance of how these neighborhood trails could be applied. Kebayoran Baru is one of the early districts in South Jakarta. Well planned by the Dutch, this area is mainly comprised of high end residential with wide and lush roads providing adequate shade - a perfect setting for a jogging session.

Looking at the bigger picture and long term, by making it attractive to people, it could encourage people to live a more healthy lifestyle, go outdoors, and strengthen the community bond.

At the end of the day, it might be not an ideal solution for providing running trails within the city by using neighborhood roads as the medium, but instead of waiting for the facilities to be provided, which could be a long time, it’s an alternative way of utilizing our current facilities and creating something to benefit the community.

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Last but not least, stay positive and stay healthy!

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CATCHING IDEAS / ENHANCING CONNECTIVITY IN JAKARTA

ENHANCING CONNECTIVITY IN JAKARTA Words by Anindyastari Saraswati

The government should enhance the public transportation

Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan cities in Southeast Asia, has a tremendous rate of population growth with a wide range of urban problems. The population of Jakarta was only about 900,000 in 1945 when Indonesia gained independence but now the metropolis has around 26 million inhabitants from 2012 census data.

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The periphery of Jakarta - Bogor, Tangerang, Depok and Bekasi, abbreviated as Bodetabek - is heavily dependent on the central city. Bodetabek is a “bedroom suburb” for the daily commuters of Jakarta.

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The economy of Jakarta dominates its peripheral areas. That’s because Jakarta is not only a capital city as political center, but also the country’s economic and cultural center that has many corporate offices, commercial and entertainment enterprises.

In the daytime, the total population in Jakarta nearly doubles its population in the night time (Kompas, June 18, 2004). The number of daily movement in Jakarta is estimated at six to seven million. Therefore, the city needs a good city transportation network system, which in fact still has a lot of issues.

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Traffic congestion has long been a problem for this city. The city is known for its seemingly endless traffic jams eventhe President of the United States, Barack Obama said,

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“Now as president I can’t even see any traffic because they block all of the streets”, he lamented when paid a visit to Jakarta on Nov 9, 2010. This is all because of the high growth rate of vehicle ownership where Jakartans are buying new vehicles faster than the city can construct new roads.

The government is more focused on promoting the use of cars by building more elevated inner city toll roads than the public transportation system.

It makes people think they need to have their own car for easy mobility.

Jakarta’s existing public transport is poorly maintained and is always overloaded.

The weak public transportation system in Jakarta prompts more and more Jakarta residents to use their private vehicles, which in turn worsens the city’s traffic gridlock.

Before it worsens, the government should think first about the pedestrian.

The current pedestrian system in Jakarta is not comfortable, safe or feasible. It’s too narrow and not well maintained.

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Find new alternative way of transportation to fix the problems

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The government should make wider pedestrian ways with good arrangement of the hardscape (street furniture, paving block, street lights, etc.) and softscape (big trees that shade the sidewalk, flower or shrubs, etc.) that would attract people to use this pedestrian walk even for a far distance.

The design should also consider the safety of the pedestrian, like whether it has good light to increase safety at night or the buildings along the sidewalks should encourage active and visually permeable frontage rather than blank compound walls.

Next is about the alternative way for the transportation. Besides the monorail transportation (LRT) and subway trains (MRT) for the future plan, it is good if bicycles are also included in this network system.

In Jakarta, the government or stakeholders should provide shared biking in public areas.

The government needs to have a strong commitment to build more dedicated bike lanes and integrate them with the city transportation system, buses, trains, MRT, LRT, and BRT (Trans Jakarta bus), so the commuters can use bicycles to get to work or reach their destinations.

If the government could encourage more motorists to shift to using bicycles and imrpove the public transportation. the city’s chronic traffic woes could be reduced and Jakarta could become a healthier and more liveable city for its citizens.

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Many cities in developed countries, particularly in Europe, have integrated bicycle lanes into their transportation network systems. Safe and extensive bike route networks, promotion of pro-cyclist policies and a bike culture have taken place in those cities.

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CATCHING IDEAS / PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE

DYSFUNCTIONAL PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES IN JAKARTA Words by Diana Zerlina and Fiona Rambitan

Pedestrian bridges or pedestrian overpasses are a necessary part of the overall transportation network and help pedestrians get safely from one point to another. It provides better pedestrian continuity for the community and solves the crossing problem at busy intersections. On the other side, it could also work as an urban feature, even as a landmark for its surrounding area and city in the bigger picture.

Unfortunately here in Jakarta, pedestrian bridges are treated poorly.

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“We should learn to treat our pedestrian bridges properly and make it stand out as an important feature in our urban space�

Nowadays, most of the pedestrian bridges in Jakarta are connected to the BRT (Busway) Stops. Most of the time, the government adds ramps or changed stairs into ramps with the intention of helping disable people access the bus stop. But unfortunately this has not happened at every place. We can find many inconsistencies in the bridge design in this city. Harmoni Central Busway Station is one example of it. The access to the bus stop was only planned by adding additional ramp to the existing pedestrian bridge while the existing pedestrian bridge is still using stairs. In this case, the ramp does not function as it should. On the other hand, ramps on pedestrian bridges in Jakarta are being abused by motorcyclists to cross the roads. This is an example of unpleasant behavior in our society.

When we cross the pedestrian bridge in Jakarta, the most common things we see are street vendors lining and selling goods and beggars sleeping at the corner of stairs or walkways which decrease the space for people to walk. Pedestrians can only walk within one lane of two ways and the walkways are sometimes blocked if some people stop to buy goods from the illegal street vendors.

From the news, we often hear about criminal

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incidents that happen on pedestrian bridges.

Many cases have harmed victims. It proves that our pedestrian bridges were not designed properly. A good pedestrian bridge should encourage surveillance through proper lightings and physical features to maximize visibility so people feel secure to walk on it.

All of these conditions have discouraged pedestrians to willing use our pedestrian bridges. It becomes uncomfortable for people to walk and makes people prefer to choose vehicles as their first option, even to cross within a close distance.

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To improve these conditions, we should learn from other cities on how to treat our pedestrian bridges properly and make it stand out as an important feature in our urban space.

Securing safety to pedestrians is one important aspect that should be a driver to make our pedestrian bridges a pleasant environment to walk on. A wide range of design standards and practices can be adopted and applied to enhance the quality of our pedestrian bridges.

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CATCHING IDEAS / HUMANIST CITY FOR PEDESTRIAN

HUMANIST CITY FOR PEDESTRIANS Words by Lucia Wili

Roads are usually provided with a sidewalk which is built on both sides. This sidewalk makes it easier to get connected to another place by foot. Its presence states that a city is dedicated for all people, not only for vehicle users but also for pedestrians. It makes a city friendly and humanist.

It is possible for Jakarta to be a step ahead of Singapore or Minneapolis in giving better space for pedestrians free to walk at SCBD

Most of the big cities in the world especially in developed countries have considered planning for proper spaces for pedestrians.

Let us take a look at our neighbor, Singapore.

This city has managed their sidewalk system well. Large pedestrian malls with shady trees and green shrubs are provided everywhere. Walking has become a routine activity of the resident’s life.

For another example, let’s go to one of Uncle Sam’s cities, Minneapolis in Minnesota. More than 92% of the roads in Minneapolis have pedestrian ways on both sides of the road.

In addition, this city has a program to encourage people to walk in their daily activities, including walk to work. It is more economic, eco friendly, and healthier.

Thus, this city is designated as a Goldlevel Walk Friendly Community, a city or town that has shown a commitment to improving and sustaining walkability and pedestrian safety through comprehensive programs, plans and policies.

Among Jakarta’s negative conditions, we

could still find good sidewalks, such as around SCBD (Sudirman Central Business District).

Some refinement of sidewalks can be found in certain areas, for example Senopati, Suryo, and Wolter Monginsidi roads in South Jakarta.

Hopefully this could cover Jakarta entirely. Many areas are waiting for this sidewalk refinement program.

It is a good effort in providing good facilities for pedestrian, but are these sidewalks really ready for heavy pedestrian traffic? not yet.

If you look at some portions along Wolter Monginsidi Road, the cars are still king.

Providing this infrastructure should be followed by programs, plans and the right policies to make it successful.

Imagine if all of Jakarta residents could walk under the tree shadows.

Enjoy every step by viewing green-shrubs along the way. Walk free without being afraid to fall due to the damaged sidewalk.

And of course be free from the occupancy of the food stalls or parked cars.

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Where should I walk? A newly renovated sidewalk at Wolter Monginsidi is used for carpark.

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CATCHING IDEAS / Initial Steps Towards Wealthier and Healthier Jakarta

INITIAL STEPS TOWARDS A WEALTHIER AND HEALTHIER JAKARTA Words by Tiurma Juniar

Indonesia is currently the world’s 5th largest greenhouse gas emitter, accounting for approximately 5% of the world’s emissions (ICLEI, 2010). This is due to deforestation (forestry & peat) as the largest contributor which accounts for 85% of its CO2 emissions. At the G20 Pittsburgh Summit, the Indonesian President announced Indonesia’s goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emission by 26% by 2020 from business as usual and 41% if using international assistance.

To achieve that target, Indonesia needs participation and contribution from its cities, including Jakarta

In 2007, Jakarta joined the C40 Cities Climate Leadership group, a group of associations of cities committed to tackling climate change.

DKI Jakarta as the Capital City of Indonesia also participated voluntarily in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of reductions nationally. The previous Governor of Jakarta, Fauzi Bowo, had targeted the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030. To implement the commitment, Jakarta developed the Regional Action Plan for Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emission

(RAD-GRK), using 2005 as the base year.

The projection of GhG emission is primarily estimated based on two main parameters: projection of population and economic growth. In Indonesia, another important factor is land use change and burning of forests and waste. Economic and population growth will affect the human activities in the city; especially for energy consumption, transportation, and waste production. To tackle the environmental impact in the future, Jakarta needs to undertake emission

reductions actions by implementing the action plan (RAD-GRK) which directly and indirectly can lead to a wealthier and healthier Jakarta. Otherwise, there are some issues which can be the initial steps to help Jakarta to become a wealthier and healthier city.

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Source: Environmental Management Agency

co 2 per sector emission projected 2030

2030: 113,94 million ton CO2e

POTENTIAL REDUCTION OF GHG EMISSION BY 2030

Target emission reduction: 34,18 million ton CO2e

co 2 per sector emission base year 2005

2005: 35,09 million ton CO2e

WHAT DOES JAKARTA NEED TO DO? 1

Jakarta’s stakeholders need to coordinate and cooperate with their respective roles and capabilities to support Jakarta in emissions reduction. They need to raise awareness of the rights and responsibilities of all stakeholders to participate in creating a healthier city life. In order to develop a strong public policy, emphasis needs to be placed on connectedness and the engagement of multiple stakeholders at all levels of government as well as the private development community

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Jakarta needs to allocate sufficient resources in implementing the action plan and at the same improve the quality of its citizen’s lives.

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Jakarta needs to be ready for the green economy concept. A green economy may be the best economic vehicle to achieve sustainable development goals. It will result in improved human well-being and social equity whilst significantly reducing environmental risk and ecological scarcities. The green urban economy encompasses environmental, social and spatial planning dimensions.

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Jakarta needs to attract business and investment Energy efficiency alone is not enough to create a wealthier city; Jakarta must attract and retain strong businesses that provide jobs and grow tax revenue. The Carbon Disclosure Project, C40, and AECOM analyzed that 62% of all reported emission reduction activities being undertaken by cities have the potential to make cities more attractive to businesses (Wealthier and Healthier Cities Report, 2013). Engage in investment for public infrastructure, technology, renewable energy, and energy efficiency, adaptation, retrofitting of buildings, better waste and recycling system.

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Attract investor by creating policies and regulations that make the process to open a new business easier (incentive), and support the green economy. Efficient energy used will driven to cost savings.

Give incentives such as tax concessions, low interest loan, grants, and subsidies, such as: green building, transfer technology, public infrastructure, transportation, waste management, etc.

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Jakarta needs to educate the citizen by creating awareness of the preservation of the environment through education and all kinds of media. Educate the citizens in terms of the impact, benefit, and how to involve, contribute, and improve the quality life in the city.

Reducing GhG emission and making a healthier city that will encourage healthier citizens. Simple actions can make a big difference for a city to become sustainable; people should be aware of how to save energy, how to not waste water, how to reuse and recycle waste, not to throw rubbish or any other waste into streams, and how to make more use of public transport.

There must be a mobilization of all sectors of society, as well as financial investments. Jakarta need a drastic change in its societal habits to reduce emissions and help to pursue a healthier lifestyle.

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CATCHING IDEAS / EVENT AND PLACE

EVENTs AND PLACEs

DESIGN CONTRIBUTION TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY Words by Putri Kusumawardhani

Jakarta needs a strategic plan for PLACES. It’s more than an architectural shape or the events in isolation - it’s about creating the scenery, and influencing the people’s journey through the city.

Because traveling and exploring the city has always been magical for everyone and everyone loves life in the city.

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a part of a broader pattern of urban morphology that is organized and shaped by humans.

Many theories say that GDP depends on its citizen’s growth in a country. There are paradigms that tell us economic growth and performance is evidence of a link between economic wealth and the success of cities.

As it turns out, many countries that have a large GDP have many successes in a number of areas for their city performance “The cities play an important role create a dynamic environment of economic, social, and cultural atmosphere, provide a number of infrastructure that serve people through transportation, communication, water sanitation, power and human interaction”.

(The Economic Role of Cities, UN Habitat, 2011) It’s not only about contributions from permanent residents that live work and play in the city, it’s also about the non-permanent residents and tourists that visit permanent attractions or annual events in the city.

For the past last year, the demand for travel to cities has greatly increased for business or convention purposes and even for city leisure and cultural exploration. Now exploring a city through the street and plazas is expensive experience of today’s urban living. It is merely

Town centers and high streets have buildings and roads, but the spaces in-between are what hold them together as a place. the open spaces, streets, squares, green spaces and the network of pavements and pedestrian thoroughfares that knit them together. All too often, these spaces are used as no more than that thoroughfares and we start to forget that they can be so much more. (Re-imagining urban spaces to help revitalize our high streets, Department for Communities and Local Government, UK, 2012).

A number of festivals are held by the Jakarta Provincial Government. The Joko WidodoBasuki Purnama Tjahaja governance contributed to local revenues in the tourism sector.

Revenue increased from Rp 2.6 trillion in 2012 to Rp 3.103 trillion in 2013. One reason for the increase in revenue was the number of domestic and foreign tourists that increased throughout 2013. Recorded by the Culture and Tourism Office of Jakarta, domestic tourists increased by 9.12 percent and foreign tourists increased 7.8 percent compared to 2012.

Events (cultural or even sport) that attract people also increased. In 2012 there were only 147 events, and in 2013 it jumped to 246 events.

That’s why, Jakarta needs a strategic plan for places!

Monas, Monumen Nasional, no longer seen only as a tourist spot, now Monas square often host several events that attractive for residents and tourists.

Monas square is flexible, open and has a landmark that make it have a certain value as an event venue.

The right composition of attractive space depend on designer approach.

There are numerous ways of using and improving urban spaces, in this case Monas is space that will be described in process to create places in the city.

1. Collect Data

2. Set the Urban Experience

3. Inject Regular Events

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CATCHING IDEAS / From Bogota to Jakarta

From Bogota to Jakarta Words by Anastasia Widyaningsih

Cities are special, as are the mayors. Mayors, as representatives of the government closest to the people, are in a better position to lead the public than any of the most powerful people on Earth. Whereas national governments, along with state and provincial ones, are distant and abstract entities, with which citizens feel little connection, mayors are problemsolvers; they get things done. (Benyamin Barber)

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In the last 15 years, Bogota went from being renowned for corrupt governance and urban chaos to being a model for visionary politics and progressive urban planning.

That turnaround stories was started to take form after the election of Antanas Mockus as the new mayor in 1994.

He had a unique approach in his leadership; he come from an academic background, Mockus analogized the city as a 6.5 million person classroom. http://www.mcpetesez.com/march152001-3.htm

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“The distribution of knowledge is the key contemporary task,” Mockus said.

“Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change.”

With no political experience, Mockus has successfully ran for mayor of Bogotá for two (non-consecutive) terms mainly because people in Colombia’s capital city saw him as an eccentric yet honest guy. With an educator’s inventiveness, Mockus turned Bogotá into a social experiment just as the city was choked with violence, lawless traffic, corruption, and gangs of street children who mugged and stole. It was a city perceived by some to be on the verge of chaos.

People were desperate for a change, for a moral leader of some sort. The eccentric Mockus, who communicates through symbols, humor, and metaphors, filled the role. He wore a Superman costume and acted as a superhero called “Supercitizen”. People laughed at Mockus’ antics, but the laughter began to break the ice of their extreme skepticism. (Harvard Gazette Archives)

Solving urban problem, such as traffic congestion, slums, or crime, requires more than just technical know-how; it is also a psychological challenge because each improvement changes behavior.

Thus, we should think about educating the people and changing the culture.

The fact that he was seen as an unusual leader gave the new mayor the opportunity to try extraordinary things, such as hiring 420 mimes to control traffic in Bogotá’s chaotic and dangerous streets. He launched a “Night for Women” and asked the city’s men to stay home in the evening and care for the children to promote a safer street for all citizens.

In his struggle against corruption, he closed down the transit police because many of those 2,000 members were notoriously corruptible.

Now let’s take a look at our city, Jakarta, and our new governor, Jokowi. He won 43% of votes in the first round of the gubernatorial election last year; Jokowi was elected as the incumbent governor was seen as having achieved little to resolve the most glaring daily problems. Many of Jakarta’s major problems were still waiting to be addressed, such as flooding, traffic congestion, and spatial planning. So, what has the governor done in his first year of leadership to overcome those problems? Here are a few:

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Appreciation should go to the new leader who has the dignity to fix the city’s problem. But, to get the things done, there needs improvements in design and development practice, existing government policies and mechanism and also in people’s mindset.

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2012 Nov. 10: Launching of the Jakarta Health Card (KJS) Dec. 1: Launching Jakarta Smart Card (KJP) 2013 May 1: Ground breaking of kampung deret (elevated village project) in Tanah Tinggi, Central Jakarta June 21: The city started to re green a 6-hectare area in Pluit reservoir and turn it into a park Sept. 2: Tanah Abang street vendors are moved to the Blok G building Sept. 26: Jokowi launches a city park in Ria-Rio reservoir area.

Oct. 10: Makes groundbreaking deal for the MRT project Oct. 16: Achieves groundbreaking deal for the Monorail project (The Jakarta Post) In one year leading the capital, Jokowi and his vice governor, Ahok, have proven that they plan and act, showing the kind of leadership that we are lacking these days.

Above all through so called technical problem solving, Jokowi does something practically unheard-of among Indonesia’s political elite: he ventures into the streets to speak with the people who elected him. Most times, he is mobbed as he wanders through slums, traditional markets and other neighborhoods.

He has invested the most effort and political capital on two projects in particular. The first

was to move street vendors off the roads surrounding Tanah Abang, the largest textiles market in Southeast Asia, which was causing traffic jams throughout Central Jakarta, and gave them space inside a nearby building.

The second was the relocation of 7,000 poor families squatting around the Pluit Reservoir in North Jakarta into low-cost public housing so the reservoir can be dredged for the first time in 30 years to help alleviate annual flooding.

To win community support, Mr. Joko visited both areas at least once daily to make sure that city officials were following through on the projects and to assure local residents that he is was really not planning to turn the land over to shopping mall developers. (NYTimes) Furthermore, Jokowi also initiated an open-call recruitment process for civil servants in order to end corruption and ineffective bureaucracy within government in order to gain the public’s trust by having a clean and trustworthy team. He also set up a new way to inform the public of what the governor is doing by publishing it in Youtube with an account titled PemprovDKI. It hopefully will assist the public in monitoring their elected leaders.

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“The people say it’s ‘street democracy’ because I go out to them, I explain my programs. They can also give me ideas about programs,” said Jokowi.

Appreciation should go to the new leader who has the dignity to fix the city’s problems.

But, to get the things done, there needs improvements in design and development practice, existing government policies and mechanisms and also in the people’s mindset.

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THE SUBURB’S POTENTIAL TO HELP REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF STORM WATER BY CONSTRUCTING RAIN GARDENS AT THE NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE

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WSUD at small scale Words by Wenes Widiyani

Most Jakarta people already realize and are used of the yearly rain cycle that occurs around Jakarta. Approaching November, people who live in flood prone areas will get prepared to face the flood.

We start to tidy up, lift up our possessions, especially electronic ones, above 2 m.

It’s a prevention act in case the water floods into the house.

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This year 2014, as we approach the end of rainy season, there has been 20% of Jakarta or 1.425 ha that were flooded. The floods hit 698 neighbourhood and 1.425 districts. There were 44.785 people who were evacuated from their homes in 197 points, and the number of fatalities to date is7. However, if we compare to 2013, at that time Jakarta was in a 5 year rain cycle, and main roads such as Bundaran HI were also flooded; thus the number has decreased this year. In 2013, total area that was hit by floods was 30% or 2.143 ha. There were 1.177 neighbourhoods and 508 districts affected. There were 83.930 victims who evacuated at 307 points with 41 fatalities (Kompas, 2014).

NOT A PHENOMENOn JAKARTA FLOODS HAVE BECOME A ROUTINE

Bundaran HI, 2013 Source : Transmedan

Jakarta has a total area of 626 km2 with only 9.6% of green open space (2007).

Less green open space means less area for infiltration of storm water. This, in addition to Jakarta’s other problems such as garbage accumulation, bad drainage and high levels of rainfall, and overpopulation, no wonder Jakarta is always get flooded during the rainy season.

Grogol, 2014 Source : Metro

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One of the tools that could help to reduce run-off at the neighborhood scale is by creating rain gardens. Rain gardens are part of a bioretention system, which is one kind of storm management that use filtration to treat stormwater run-off. Rain gardens collect stormwater from impervious urban areas, like roofs, driveways, walkways, and parking lots, into compacted vegetated areas.

The collected water then is slowly soaked into the ground, just as it does in nature.

Rain gardens are shallow depressions that are designed to capture and filter water in rain events, and remain and dry between rainfalls.

Rain gardens also reduce the pollutant load of the water through the filtration process.

This means the stormwater runoff, which is often polluted from urban areas, is cleaner before it flows to the larger water bodies.

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Water flow through Rain Garden

As opposed to Jakarta, development of softscape feastures in suburban areas such in Tengerang, Bekasi, and Bogor have great potential for implementation of rain gardens as part of the strategy for stormwater management. For example, the suburban area of Sentul City plans to start new developments adjacent to existing development, occupying 2467 ha of area. It is estimated that the road alone has potential runoff of 22 million L/day. Constructing a linear rain garden that has just 1 m of width along the road can have a significant impact on reducing the amount of runoff.

These days, the suburbs have been starting to develop their spaces to be more comprehensive and integrated in order to be independent and sustainable city. It will not only provide housing opportunities, but it will also create more hard, inpermeable surfaces once the suburban areas become more urban, and as CBDs are built from low-rise up to high-rise buildings.

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We have learned from what happened in Jakarta that prevention is easier and cost cheaper than fix the damage from the floods.

One successful method that has been implemented in America for example is local government encouraging home owners, developers, and businesses to consider installing rain gardens at their sites. An environmental utility fee is charged against all developed parcels and these fees help finance stormwater facilities.

Residents and businesses can apply for reduction of their environmental utility fee if they construct rain gardens, pervious driveways or pervious parking areas.

Rain gardens can not only be installed at the neighborhood scale but also are being integrated into site design for new projects as part of the city landscape.

This not only prevents flooding, it has also become a community amenity.

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The second day started with a design charrette, a session lasting from 9pm up to 3am that ended with a final presentation from each team. Later, AECOM made a final conclusion and come up with 5 ideas/recommendations for Sudirman Street, Bandung.

2. WATER SENSITIVE URBAN DESIGN The second project was conducted in Surabaya on 7-8 December 2013. The theme of the workshop was ‘Parks’. This event was divided into 2 actions: First action was building a garden that involved the local community, with the Urban Guerrilla team as the main coordinator; and the Second was a short discussion about macro framework in “Water Harmonization and Surabaya City” by Tunas Nusa Foundation as the main coordinator.

The First action had representation from around 30 local communities with more than 40 volunteers from different backgrounds.

1. Tunas Nusa Foundation Indonesia 2. PIP2B (Pusat Informasi Pengembangan Pemukiman dan Bangunan) Jawa Timur 3. PNPM Perkotaan – BKM Mitra Sejahtera 4. Himpunan Mahasiswa Teknik Lingkungan (HMTL) – Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November 5. Warga RW 04 Tegal Mulyorejo Baru, Kelurahan Kejawen Putih Tambak, Surabaya On the first day, the UG team collaborated with Tunas Nusa Foundation and held a Light Discussion “Water Harmonization and Surabaya City”. It was led by Mrs. Rita Pandawangi from NSU, Mrs. Anggraini from ITS, and Mr. Peter Scott from Landscape-AECOM. The second day involved the application of a rain water garden in Tegal Mulyorejo, RW 04. Together with the community constructed a rain garden, with additional help from HMTL-ITS.

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EVENT AND TRAVELLING 2013 Dinner and Dance Bidakara Building, DKI Jakarta

Dinner and dance is an annual event held by AECOM, held for the first time in 2013. AECOM Indonesia held the event in Jakarta. Getting ourselves busy to prepare costumes and performances, of course we still continued to hold meetings with clients and have workshops for our projects.

That day, Gracia and Sacha from PDD were the winners of Best Costume. Best group was the Dutch-Themed Team which consist of several PDD team members. Yeay!

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Bandung Outing Bandung City, West Java

Team building is one of the most important events in PDD, especially going out of town. Right after Dinner and Dance party, the PDD team went straight to Bandung. Two days of bonding events from eating to shopping, paint ball to karaoke.

Our families gathered together and spent this awesome weekend as a team.

Bogor Outing Bogor City, West Java

It’s a essential ritual for us to have outings and good, fun times after our busy days. These activities help us to bond as a team to be more solid and strong for the future.

Last Year Dinner Pad 28, DKI Jakarta

To celebrate x’mas and the new year of 2014, the PDD team gathered at Pad 28 restaurant. A gift exchange occurred to close our 2013 year. Hurray! What did you get from the bowl?

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AWARDS GARUDA WISNU KENCANA WINNER OF Singapore landscape Architecture Awards GWK will be one of the most significant cultural parks in Indonesia, integrating the storytelling of “how Garuda Meets Wisnu” into the existing landscape. It guides visitors on three distinct journeys. These journeys weaves around underground, ground, and elevated trails and landscape rooms that feature creative landscape design and at the same time, preserves natural landforms.

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WINNER OF RIVER OF LIFE COMPETITION

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Summary Document

The competition’s main intention was to bring back the activity and life along Gombak and Klang River as the main river of Kuala Lumpur. River reconnection and continuing the legacy of the river was enhanced by a sustainable approach, which became the core of the design. Working together with the Singapore Landscape and Urban Design team and with reinforcement from Environmental and Traffic Engineering team, AECOM completed deliverables that were thoroughly integrated.

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A sustainable public realm is socially engaging, ecologically rich, habitable and productive. The landscape design contains a number of education program opportunities that provide a catalyst for Tengah Wood’s future. Tengah Woods provides the residents of Singapore with an opportunity to evolve the ‘City in a Garden’ lifestyle into to a ‘sustainable forest lifestyle’. The overall framework creates and embraces a new dynamic for Singapore that weaves social, water and ecological principals into a program rich, functional and beautiful sustainable city.

Tengah Woods provides a place to live, work, play, learn, and grow. Tengah Woods is the development of a new town and community within green open space that rethinks and maintains its ecological, social and economic diversity.

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RUNNING IN JAKARTA NEIGHBORHOODS

ENHANCING CONNECTIVITY IN JAKARTA

DYSFUNCTIONAL ACTS ON PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES IN JAKARTA

Mohamad Nurhadi

Anindyastari Saraswati

Diana Zerlina & Fiona Rambitan

Hailing from Bandung and currently based in Jakarta, Indonesia, Hadi is an urban designer by profession for the past 7 years with a great passion in culinary and coffee. He enjoys doing sports - running in particular, exploring cities, experiencing different cultures and capturing it through the lenses.

Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, Anindyastari Saraswati is a young urban designer that loves to capture & experience the unique moment in every cities in the world. She loves to gain new experience and knowledge while bio - climatic & sustainable design is the thing that she passionate about.

Both lives and grew up in Jakarta, make them know really well the issues about their beloved city. Have experience working in overseas office, open their eyes that a good city creates a better living quality. Based on their passion and background, their trying to reveal a bit about this city’s problem. They believe Jakarta could be a better place to live.

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EVENTS AND PLACES; DESIGN CONTRIBUTION TO THE ECONOMY OF THE CITY

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Lucia Wili Lucia was born and has spent her childhood in a small and friendly city, Solo. After some life journeys she anchored in Jakarta, a city which she had never imagined to live in before. Having some experience in architecture and urban design gave her a depiction of how the ideal city is supposed to be. She believes that a good city is built not only by the good design and proper infrastructure but also by the behaviour of its people.

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Tiurma Juniar

Putri Kusumawardhani

Anastasia Widyaningsih

Wenes Widiyani

Tiurma has a different background and interest from the others. Her background is regional and city planning with a special interest in planning policy and economic planning. For her, cities are lifelines of society and engines to economic growth. Designing the city is not just about creating a beautiful picture, it also designing the economic movement, physical environment, and creating a huge impact on the way we live. It is easier to point out the problems than to find the systemic solution, but it is vital that we are able to articulate a better future.

Putri has a wide area of interest from transportation, design, and environment to economic subjects.

Putri Kusumawardhani enjoys reading and writing about the connections between those subjects. And the city is a place to find the system, a field of exploration, where the ideas collide with each other, and you will be surprised what you may discovered. “The city is the place of availabilities is the place where a small kids, through it, may see something that will tell them what they want to do his whole life”, Louis Khan.

Her passion in urban design grew after she joined a photo documentary workshop which allowed her to travel around Jakarta to investigate the real city problems with her very eyes and luckily her interest in urban design allows her to see the things from multiple perspectives. Like what Jane Jacobs, her favorite author said in her book, “For illustrations, please look closely at real cities. While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger, and think about what you see.”

Wenes Widiyani’s interest in urban open space began when she was living in an urban setting, in Jakarta, the fourth largest city in the world, with its chaos yet it is somehow captivating by the dynamic rhythm and the history. With her landscape architecture background, she has personal enjoyment in public realms.

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upcoming edition THE series Urban Guerrilla Magazine is quarterly publication made by the PDD AECOM Jakarta team. The publication explores integrated ideas about regional land use and cities. This issue is written by economists, planners and designers.

By connecting together all these elements, the publication promotes an understanding of the urbanized world and gives other perspectives on looking at urbanism.

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behind the scene Rangga Kumara

Sacha Schwarzkopf

Fachri Dwi Rama

THANK YOU TO Our thanks goes to the readers of this magazine, to its contributors, to city observers, to citizens, and the providers of supporting images, Kimberlee Myers for her contribution. we are sure the readers are grateful get a chance to see these images through their eyes.

Rangga was born in Jakarta and loves everything to do with Design, Art, Photography, Cars and Sport.

He loves to spend his time with his family and loves to travel a lot with them and his friends.

He is Involved in Urban Guerrilla movement as a Graphic Designer.

For him “Design” doesn’t only mean to create something that communicate well and make people smile and happy with it, but how to gain the colour of happiness inside it.

Sacha Schwarzkopf grew up in the so called quaint town of Laguna Beach, California. His favourite quote is from Dwight D. Eisenhower “there is everything in planning, and nothing in a plan”. Travelling to and from other continents and all over the world gives him a wide range of views when looking at a city.

He was born in Jakarta, but you can say he grew up in Bandung where he studied for his bachelor degree.

Family is his first priority and he also loves to sing especially doing karaoke. With his background as an architect and an urban designer, he believes that an urban designer is like a conductor in an orchestra.

Never underestimate inputs from everyone which make him love to discuss and listen about everything.

Build up connections not just for the business but also to understand what other people needs.

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URBAN GUERRILLA Is a movement dedicated to the research, observation, critique and design on a variety of subjects related to urbanism. The purpose of Urban Guerrilla is to provide innovative yet practical solutions through interactive methods that create a better city life. Urban Guerilla involves communities, academia and practitioners combining theoretical and practical applications in urban design. Urban Guerrilla is a local application of global urban design inititaives with involvement from experts from around the world. Everyone is invited to join the movement. let’s create a better city life together.