Rural development strategies in Indonesia: Managing villages to achieve sustainable development

Abstract Rural development is an appealing phenomenon to be explored. After the Village Law was established in 2014, each village must manage its own village funds. This significantly impacts the spatial and a-spatial aspects of rural development, either creating opportunities in rural areas or even creating new problems. Currently, many villages carry out development without prudently considering spatial aspects. Villages as the main suppliers of various staple foods are unable to achieve self-sufficiency as part of sustainable development. Therefore, it is important to discuss governance aspects. This paper explains rural issues and problems and relates these to the development management framework. The paper uses a literature review and secondary data to identify issues and problems in villages. The paper found that each village can formulate strategic solutions by planning to increase information and public communication, organizing to strengthen systems and internal supervision, actuating to optimize the role of Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDes) as well as controlling to strengthen spatial control.</jats:p

Integrative Solutions for the Acceleration of Open Defecation Free (ODF) in Bandung City

Abstract One of the goals in the SDGs that a region must achieve is 100% sanitation access. Sanitation is considered to have a significant impact on the quality of public health, both in rural and urban areas. The city of Bandung as a city with a high-density level has a big challenge in resolving sanitation matters. Acceleration efforts are needed to improve sanitation access in the city of Bandung which is still low so that it can realize open defecation free (ODF) for every urban village in the city of Bandung. This paper aims to provide a logical framework in the form of efforts that can be made to increase ODF in the city of Bandung. By collecting secondary data, interviews and FGDs as well as the highest and best use approach, the results show that the most important thing is to encourage the community to realize the need for a septic tank through community based total sanitation triggering (STBM) activities, connecting household wastewater channels to PDAM Sewerage, construction of small and large-scale communal septic tanks / IPAL and construction of “Gendong” pipelines, especially those in riverbank areas.</jats:p

Analysis of Changes in Air Quality in Major Cities Indonesia During COVID 19 Using Remote Sensing Data

Abstract The COVID 19 outbreak has brought many changes to the order of human life. One is affected that life in an urban area. The metropolitan area that is usually crowded with human activity changes drastically to the empty urban. This phenomenon happened because many cities apply the lockdown policy to reduce the spread of COVID-19. This lockdown policy reduces the activity of transportation and industry, causing changes in air quality in the urban area. This study aims to see how much the impact of lockdown policy on air quality in 4 major cities in Indonesia, which is: Jakarta, Medan, Balikpapan, and Makasar. The method that used in this research is using Remote Sensing data by extracting Sentinel Satellite Image data, which produces air quality data, namely data NO2 levels in the air, then comparing the distribution of NO2 in the air between the year 2019 and 2020, and comparing data NO2 concentration in each month in 2020. Form the result of the spatial analysis of Sentinel Image Satellite data, during the lockdown policy in the year 2020 was implemented, the NO2 level in Jakarta significantly changed positively, the NO2 levels in the air decreased compared to the year 2019. For cities outside Jakarta, there has been a decrease in NO2, but the change that occurred is not significant. From this research, it can be seen that the lockdown policy during COVID-19 has improved the air quality in major cities in Indonesia.</jats:p

Landslide Disaster Engineering in Tourism Potential Area

Abstract Regional developments in Indonesia have much potential to sustain regional living and environment, especially in tourism. Some regional areas have natural resources such as panoramic landscape, coastal zone, agricultural area, forest, rivers, waterfall, and even natural theme park as their selling point which become a tourism trend. However, these regions also face the risk of the excessive exploitation of natural resources. One of the risks found in the highland region, where the main attraction point is the landscape view, yet it is most likely to be vulnerable to the landslide. To prevent a natural disaster such as landslide, disaster engineering is one of the solutions. This research aims to develop suitable disaster engineering for regional with tourism potential as its main development sector. Certain articles are reviewed thoroughly to get the conclusion of what is the most suitable disaster engineering for regional development. The result of the research shows that disaster risk prevention is the most important aspect and possibly can be done by vegetation, infrastructure, and landscape engineering. In conclusion, regional development that uses natural resources utilisation in the highland region for panoramic-based tourism and landslide disaster prevention must be work simultaneously.</jats:p