Regional Planning, Decentralisation, Future Opportunities and Programmes of PeriUrban Development

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Regional Planning, Decentralisation, Future
Opportunities and Programmes of Peri-Urban
Development
Presented by Achmad Djunaedi, Ph.D. Regional
Development and Planning Board, Yogyakarta
Special Province e-mail achmadddjunaidi_at_yahoo.com
September 9, 2003
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Introduction
Regional Planning can be braodly definedas
public sector activities encompassingeconomic,
social and physical elements toformulate and
implement appropiate publicpolicy in an area
covering more than oneexisting local
jurisdiction (Lim, 19839)
Decentralisation and regional autonomy currently
implemented in Indonesia started in the year of
2001 under Law no.22, Year of 1999
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Regional Planning and Decentralisation in
Indonesia (1)
Regional Plng, before 2001 Regional Plngwas
conductedtop down,hierarchical
Regional Plng, since 2001 (as future
Opportunities) Regional Plngis implemeted as
consensus-based cooperation among local
governments
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Regional Planning and Decentralisation in
Indonesia (2)
Regional Plng, since 2001 (as future
Opportunities) Along with the decentralisation
of administration power and funds, more and more
cities are experiencing rapid urban development,
including Yogyakarta and its surroundings
Regional Plng, before 2001 Most major urban
development activities were concentrated in big
cities (Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, etc.)
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Yogyakarta Region An Introduction

• a small region
• 4 kabupatens 1 municipality

• middle part fertile land, highly populated

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Yogyakarta urban development and its problems
Yogyakarta urbanized areas become wider and wider

• Metropolitan-like problems, incl. such as
• congested traffic in down-townareas (Malioboro
  Area) and ist surroundings-increasing traffic
  accidents, air pollution, etc.
• rapid land conversion (from agriculture land to
  urbanized areas)-reducing agri-products and
  live-stocks-inthe rural areas

create
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Yogyakarta urban development goals

• urban development will be spread-out
• throughout the region resulting many
• small towns rather than one big
• conurbation metropolitan areas

• the fertile and ecological sensitive land
• (in the middle part of the region) will be
• more preserved from agri-land rapid
• conversion

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Yogyakarta urban development goals

• small medium enterprises development

• sub-district development (urban activity
  distribution spread-out in the region)

• the outer ring development (12 kms from
• the central of the city)

• satelite-town development (such as Bantul)

• urban agriculture development (reducing urban
• dencities)

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Yogyakarta urban development programmes

• careful road development (not to encourage
  rapid
• urban development and agri-land conversion)

• provision of mass-rapid transit
• connected surrounding (small)
• towns to the city

• regional land use/spatial planning (to
  discourage land development connected small towns
  becoming a big conurbation metropolitan)

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Closing Remarks
Were in the process in preparing a more
comprehensive concept for better managing the
region development and the growth of the system
of cities in Yogyakarta Special Province... We
need your inputs and ideas...