Planning Institutions of Adaptation to Flood in Jakarta

Simarmata, Hendricus Andy

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-5496-9_3

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“…Given the adverse impact LS has on urban flooding, subsidence mitigation efforts were integrated into flood control programmes [ 88 ]. The Jakarta Coastal Defence Strategy (JCDS) emerged as the first state-funded attempt at integrating subsidence studies in the metropolis [ 45 ].…”

Section: Mitigation and Adaptation To Urban Coastal Subsidence: Contradictions In Public Policy And Community Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In both Metro Manila and Jakarta, the most visible form of urban adaptation can be seen in the numerous costly coastal protection and flood control structures, often critiqued as being ineffective. Jakarta raised its 30 kilometers of seawall, and the structure continues to be raised above the height of waves as subsidence continues to lower the city’s foundational levels [ 88 ]. Northern Manila´s extensive multi-staged KAMANAVA flood control programme includes the recent construction of a polder dyke, fraught with public concern regarding the appropriateness of its height and seaward access points [ 101 ].…”

Section: Mitigation and Adaptation To Urban Coastal Subsidence: Contradictions In Public Policy And Community Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the kampungs of northern Jakarta, however, community-level adaptation practices were largely infrastructural in nature, and appeared to be mostly self-financed and implemented at the household level. Kampung leaders indicated that modest household contributions would be pooled to finance a new well or to add height to an existing state-built flood wall that had sunk [ 88 ]. Furthermore, the kampungs in northern Jakarta continue to practice a small-scale form of reclaiming shallow coastal water, locally referred to as nimbun , for expanding land out into sea by a few metres to less than half a kilometre.…”

Section: Mitigation and Adaptation To Urban Coastal Subsidence: Contradictions In Public Policy And Community Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As previously established, the two metropolitan capitals of Jakarta and Metro Manila are seen to be among the most at risk of LS in archipelagic Southeast Asia [ 25 , 64 , 88 ]. Similar postcolonial trajectories of rapid urbanisation characterised by industrial agglomeration and the high incidence of rural-to-urban migration resulting in urban sprawl lend to their comparability as case studies.…”

Section: Contradictions In Public Discourse: Reversibility Naturalization and Individualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The ‘wickedness’ of governing land subsidence: Policy perspectives from urban Southeast Asia

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Drawing on Jakarta, Metro Manila and Singapore as case studies, we explore the paradox of slow political action in addressing subsiding land, particularly along high-density urban coastlines with empirical insights from coastal geography, geodesy analysis, geology, and urban planning. In framing land subsidence as a classic ‘wicked’ policy problem, and also as a hybrid geological and anthropogenic phenomenon that is unevenly experienced across urban contexts, the paper uses a three-step analysis. First, satellite-derived InSAR maps are integrated with Sentinel-1A data in order to reveal the socio-temporal variability of subsidence rates which in turn pose challenges in uniformly applying regulatory action. Second, a multi-sectoral mapping of diverse policies and practices spanning urban water supply, groundwater extraction, land use zoning, building codes, tenurial security, and land reclamation reveal the extent to which the broader coastal governance landscape remains fragmented and incongruous, particularly in arresting a multi-dimensional phenomenon such as subsidence. Finally, in reference to distinct coastal identities of each city–the ‘Sinking Capital’ (Jakarta), ‘Fortress Singapore’, and the ‘Disaster Capital’ (Manila) the paper illustrates how land subsidence is portrayed across the three metropolises in markedly similar ways: as a reversible, quasi-natural, and/or a highly individualized problem.

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Section: Mitigation and Adaptation To Urban Coastal Subsidence: Contradictions In Public Policy And Community Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mitigation and Adaptation To Urban Coastal Subsidence: Contradictions In Public Policy And Community Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mitigation and Adaptation To Urban Coastal Subsidence: Contradictions In Public Policy And Community Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Contradictions In Public Discourse: Reversibility Naturalization and Individualizationmentioning

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The ‘wickedness’ of governing land subsidence: Policy perspectives from urban Southeast Asia

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“…More recently, the provincial government of Jakarta Capital Region (DKI) has developed institutional arrangements for climate change adaptation and flood mitigation, resulting in an abundance of policies and strategies of different governmental departments (Simarmata, 2018). The focus of adaptation planning has thereby shifted “from the land-based defense of rivers, canals, water pumps, and lakes to sea- and land-based protection, including reclamation, pond retention upstream and downstream, and the sea wall” (Simarmata, 2018, p. 51).…”

Section: Following a Moving Target: Sea-level Change Adaptationmentioning

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Epistemic Mobilities: Following Sea-Level Change Adaptation Practices in Southeast Asian Cities

Hornidge

Herbeck

Zoysa

et al. 2020

American Behavioral Scientist

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A rich corpus of literature exists on traveling knowledges, their carriers, and connectivities. Yet there is less emphasis on how trajectories of mobility themselves, and the knowledges that circulate coevolve in the process of travel. In this article, we propose “epistemic mobilities” as a conceptual lens with which to empirically trace the transfer and translation of knowledges and practices as they come to be embedded in existing and new social realities. We draw inspiration from technological and policy interventions for living with sea-level change across two cases studies on Jakarta and Manila, and ask how these policies and practices constantly morph when being translated into specific sociopolitical and ecological contexts. We argue that the translocal transforming of adaptation practices and policies, within their contexts of arrival and negotiation, are key to conceptualizing “epistemic mobilities” via local systems and processes of socioinstitutional change.

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Exploring sustainable solutions for the water environment in Chinese and Southeast Asian cities

Luo

Wang

et al. 2021

Ambio

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Planning Institutions of Adaptation to Flood in Jakarta

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

The ‘wickedness’ of governing land subsidence: Policy perspectives from urban Southeast Asia

The ‘wickedness’ of governing land subsidence: Policy perspectives from urban Southeast Asia

Epistemic Mobilities: Following Sea-Level Change Adaptation Practices in Southeast Asian Cities

Exploring sustainable solutions for the water environment in Chinese and Southeast Asian cities

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