Shared water resources in decentralized city regions:mixed governance arrangements in Indonesia

This paper investigates emerging models of governance for shared water resources in decentralized urban regions in Indonesia and draws on a case of inter-local government collaboration for shared water resources in Cirebon region, Indonesia. The paper points to cooperation practice involving a mixed-model of governance for sharing water. by identifying a series of requirements for mixed governance. This model suits well not only because of the regional nature of water resource management in general, but also because such a model is likely to strengthen trust, increase transparency, and provide more equal positions among regions or stakeholders involved. Crucially, this model tends to decrease problematic levels of local autonomy and inter-local rivalry, which currently appears as a major challenge for shared water resource cooperation attempts in the decentralizing contexts of Indonesia and beyond

The Impact of Patent Portfolio on Competitive Landscape of Digital Signage Apparatus

Abstract. The digital signage market has been flourishing every year, and this situation opens up new commercialization opportunities for stakeholders related to the acceleration function. The modern world has allowed technological innovation to satisfy market demands, primarily based on portfolio of patent information. The digital signage apparatus became an economical solution for the costly technology in the digital era. The purpose of this paper was to find the impact of the competitive landscape on the digital signage apparatus towards e-commerce development based on a patent portfolio from the WIPO database. The research was performed based on the patent information using Innograph software and information related to digital signage apparatus resulting in a total of 146 registered patents and 40 patents matching the research subjects. The results revealed that the patent portfolio on the digital signage apparatus has high perceived usefulness, but only few industries used this as a reference in benchmarking their technological competitiveness. This paper is beneficial to the industry that seeks for the impact of the latest technological implementation amidst the competitive commercialization of the digital signage apparatus.Keywords: Competitive Landscape; Digital Signage Apparatus; Impact; Patent Portfolio.Abstrak. Pasar signage digital telah tumbuh pesat setiap tahun, dan situasi ini menjadi kesempatan bagi para pemangku kepentingan terkait dengan percepatan fungsi komersialisasi. Di era modern menjadi masalah umum yang memungkinkan peningkatan teknologi untuk memasuki kebutuhan pasar, terutama dari portofolio melalui informasi paten. Peralatan signage digital menjadi solusi ekonomis dalam nilai mengenai di era digital sangat mahal. Tujuan dari makalah ini dilakukan untuk menemukan dampak lanskap kompetitif pada peralatan signage digital terhadap pengembangan e-commerce dengan portofolio paten dari database WIPO. Metode yang dilakukan melalui informasi paten menggunakan software Innograph dan informasi terkait penggunaan alat signage digital dengan hasil total 146 paten terdaftar dan cocok dengan subjek 40 paten. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa portofolio paten pada alat signage digital memiliki kegunaan yang dirasakan tinggi, tetapi lebih sedikit industri yang menggunakan ini sebagai referensi dalam tolok ukur daya saing teknologi. Makalah ini bermanfaat bagi industri yang ingin mengetahui dampak penerapan teknologi terkini dalam tingkat persaingan dalam komersialisasi peralatan signage digital.Kata kunci: Dampak; Lanskap Kompetitif; Portofolio Paten; Peralatan Digital Signage

Proses Kolaboratif dalam Perencanaan Berbasis Komunikasi pada Masyarakat Non-Kolaboratif

The collaborative process is a key element of the communicative-based planning. This process requires participations, equality of power, as well as adequate competence of the actors who engage the process. This condition seems difficult to occur in the societies, especially those in developing countries, in which people's participation, equality of power, and competence are considered low (uncollaborative society). The purpose of this paper is to explore whether the collaborative process can occur or not in the context of such societies. The empirical investigation was conducted by using the qualitative research methods with a case study approach to sidewalk vendors arrangement planning at Banjarsari, Surakarta City. It shows that the planning involves the collaborative process stages and authentic dialogue, which are the key aspects of collaborative process

Water Governance in Decentralising Indonesia

Under new democratic regimes in the country of the South, governance innovation is often found at the regional level. This article, using the concept of institutional capacity, shows that powerful efforts affecting regional water resource coordination emerge locally. The paper analyzes fresh water cooperation in the urban region of Cirebon, Indonesia. It is shown that city and their surrounding regions in decentralizing Indonesia show signs of increasing institutional capacity between local actors. An informal approach and discretionary local decision-making, influenced by logic of appropriateness and tolerance are influential. At the same time, these capacities are compromised by significant inequality and a unilateral control of water resources, and they are being challenged by a strong authoritarian political culture inherited from a history of centralized government. The paper points to the need to establish greater opportunities for water governance at the regional level to transcend inter-local rivalry, and thus improve decentralized institutional capacity further

The Privatization of Metropolitan Jakarta's (Jabodetabek) Urban Fringes:The Early Stages of "Post-Suburbanization" in Indonesia

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Recent metropolitan development in developed countries is associated with post-suburbia, or a decline in population in the former central city and the growth of polycentric structures outside the traditional core. Current urban development in Asian cities, particularly in the Jakarta metropolitan region (Jabodetabek), also reflects an early stage of post-suburbia. We examine physical development patterns and the changing role of public and private sectors, although our approach is descriptive in nature. The rapid growth in fringe areas that have developed from dormitory communities into independent towns, triggered by privatization of industrial estates and multifunction new towns, shows typical post-suburban patterns. The national government's pro-growth economic policies and the local autonomy granted to local governments have given the private sector the power to largely control the acquisition, development, and management of land in fringe areas, accelerating post-suburban development patterns.Takeaway for practice: Planners in developing nations must be alert to the rapidly increasing role of the private sector, recognizing how the private sector can help the government to respond to regional needs for housing, jobs, shopping and educational opportunities, and infrastructure while understanding the key role that planning can and should play in ensuring private sector actions do not exacerbate regional problems and lead to uncoordinated public responses

Labor Flows and the Construction Industry: The Case of Housing Development in Bandung, Indonesia

PhD University of Hawaii at Manoa 1988Includes bibliographical references (leaves 374–398).This study examines the interactions between population mobility and the macro socioeconomic processes of a third world society. It focuses on the movement of wage workers from the standpoint of a housing construction project at Antapani in Bandung, Indonesia. In particular, it aims to address two sets of research questions. First, to what degree are housing construction workers, drawn from the village to engage in jobs at urban development sites, following an adaptive strategy in reaction to the uncertainty of rural incomes? Second, to what extent does a segmentary labor market reflect itself in the labor relations of the housing construction industry? These concerns are explicitly connected in two broad propositions. First, most construction workers are villagers who circulate between rural communities and urban housing sites; and second, the labor market in the construction industry is highly segmented. This study is geographical in orientation for it examines the spatial links between migrant workers at urban project sites and their rural households of origin. These concerns are approached in terms of three dimensions: population mobility, considered in a multilevel and integrated manner; labor market segmentation; and the adaptive strategy of rural household. The research questions are pursued through detailed examination of a particular rural-urban case: a housing project at Antapani in west Java, and the rural community of Slendro in central Java, from which many construction workers are drawn. Guided by its propositions, this primary study concludes that the practice of labor segmentation in housing construction projects reflects how large firms maximize their control over the process of labor recruitment and management. The workforce consists of several types of workers, each of which experiences different employment conditions and exhibits variable commitment to the industry. Only a small fraction of workers is hired directly by the project contractor and the great majority are recruited by subcontractors of labor. The labor market in the construction industry is not competitive, in that subcontractors (mandors) prefer to recruit workers from their work gangs, members of whom are drawn mainly from their own village. With this system of employment, improved construction skills can only be acquired by transferring from one work gang to a different one on the same project or, more frequently, from one site to another. Job and migration histories reveal that the more skilled workers are, the greater their commitment to a particular project, whereas unskilled workers change construction jobs quite frequently. This contrast summarizes the ways in which methods and patterns of recruiting a workforce are reflected in flows of construction labor. In general, migrant workers shift far more often from site to site than do the nonmigrant, work more hours, and stay longer on the construction site. They are also more willing to accept lower weekly wages and minimize daily urban expenditures by reducing expenditures on food and by living rent free in project houses still under construction. Migrants are also responsible for paying transport costs between their rural communities and the construction site. Considered from the standpoint of project management, migrants constitute a far more reliable and cheap workforce than do the nonmigrant. For migrant labor, being employed on a project site aims primarily to supplement rural incomes. Closer examination of eighteen households in Slendro village, in central Java, indicates that families sent adult members to Antapani to earn money in preference to them engaging in local agricultural activities. Some family members may also travel to cities to work as domestic servants, factory personnel, and food traders; yet others commute between Slendro village and Sragen city to sell produce and other local items in the open market. This dispersion of a family's membership to several different location means that, in structure, it has become bi- or multilocal. In general, this study has confirmed both its propositions. Yet detailed examination of both the Antapani project site and the Slendro community reveals the interlinkages between contractors, mandors, workers, and members of rural households to be far more complex and diverse than had been anticipated involving as they do both the personal characteristics of the actors and the peculiar nature of urban and rural conditions. This study makes four principal contributions. First, it establishes how the scale of human behavior is linked with the varying territorial contexts of rural-urban relations and the complex interactions existing between population movement and the dynamics of socioeconomic change. Secondly it uses the strategy of indepth field enquiry to demonstrate a scale-linkage approach to population movement. Thirdly, it reveals population mobility to be a spatially discontinuous process that both connects and gives territorial expression to the dynamic of labor market segmentation and rural household strategies. This is rather different from neoclassical thinking that views population movement as a direct function of rural-urban income differentials. Finally, this study has contributed towards a broader understanding of industrialization in Indonesia by delineating the complex interactions that exist between urban industrial activities and the rural households of Javanese society