According to Bappenas (2021), construction waste in 2021 totals 29 million tons and is expected to rise by 82% by 2030. This can be a threat to the environment since it increases carbon emissions and the contamination of water and soil with dangerous compounds. To address the issue, the circular economy concept can be employed as a model for sustainable waste management. The adoption of the circular economy concept for construction waste has the potential to generate economic benefits of IDR 172.5 trillion in 2030 (Bappenas, 2021). In Indonesia, the West Java government is ambitious in advancing large infrastructure development, particularly in Rebana Metropolitan. Infrastructure development has implications for increasing the amount of construction waste. Therefore, this study is conducted to explain the strategy for managing and utilizing circular economy-based infrastructure construction waste management in Metropolitan Rebana. This study uses a descriptive-qualitative analysis with a comprehensive literature review. The results show that the processing of construction waste in Rebana Metropolitan can be developed using a circular economy approach, including deconstruction activities, selective demolition, waste reuse, and waste recycling. The findings become input for increasing economic opportunities while reducing waste and carbon emissions at Rebana Metropolitan.

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This paper assessed the policy implementation in this sector to identify the reasons behind the remaining challenges in palm oil-based bioenergy in Indonesia by combining renewable readiness assessment with policy indicators. The use of multiple theories allowed this study to address the holistic aspects of the policy implementation within four pillars—national energy policy and strategy, institutional framework, economic instruments, and infrastructure. A qualitative analysis was used to assess the current policy implementation and provide a discussion within each pillar. The basic policy and strategy have existed along with the institutional framework and price-based economic instrument. At the same time, the infrastructure pillar fell behind due to a lack of government support regarding the widespread issues. Although the readiness assessment result was considered suboptimal, the assessment and discussion were still expected as the first step toward proposing bioenergy development strategies that will contribute to the energy resilience of Indonesia.

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Nature-based Solution (NBS) is an umbrella for ecosystem-based approaches to prevent or mitigate the impacts of hydro-meteorological hazards. The increasing hydrometeorological disaster occurrence such as floods in Bandung City because of both climate change phenomenon and rapid growth of Bandung City has caused a big impact on people live in slums and high-density settlement. Realizing this risk, Bandung City has implemented strategies to reduce flood risk, including the Sustainable Urban Drainage System (SUDS) as stated on the Bandung City Spatial Plan (RTRW) 2011-2031. However, this measure had not effectively reduced flood risk in Bandung City. Therefore, this research focuses to analyse the implementation of SUDS and how it can capture the concept of NBS, with the study case Cibadak Administrative Village, one of the poor and high-density urban settlements in Bandung City. The result was developed using a mixed method consisting of a descriptive quantitative approach, spatial analysis for satellite imagery, and content analysis technique to analyse each challenge of SUDS implementation. The result indicates the lack of capacity in scale, budget, natural characteristic, and social demographic for SUDS implementation in poor and high density urban settlement in Bandung, which aligns with the challenge of NBS implementation in the global south.

The Government of Indonesia (GoI) defined COVID-19 outbreak as a non-natural disaster as stated in the Decision Letter of Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana/BNPB) 9A/2020 concerning the Status of Determining the Specific Situation of Coronavirus Disease in Indonesia, prompting the President to declare a state of public health emergency which subsequently led the President to ask relevant ministers to take maximum steps to stop the virus transmission. As the virus began spreading to different parts of the country, including to the most populous province in Indonesia: West Java, local governments, particularly regional and city governments, saw the need to enact stringent measures in their region to the extent which is allowed by their right of autonomy. In doing so, the West Java regional government, which receives its mandate from the national government, is tasked with coordinating and delegating countermeasures to the city/district governments under its jurisdiction, which include mass testing, social restrictions, and securing health services. However, we learned that issues arise during the course of this delegation, including coordination issues between national and local governments, vertical and horizontal mechanisms, and decision making. This paper aims to answer: “How does West Java govern the response to the COVID-19 pandemic?”. It does so by assessing the efforts done by the West Java regional government and its corresponding city/district governments to contain the COVID-19 virus from March to August 2020. The assessment also identifies the gaps which exist between the regional and local governments and use them to formulate recommendations aimed at improving West Java’s institutional response to COVID-19.

Since the first cases in Early March 2020 until August, Jakarta is still the epicenter of the spread of the COVID-19 in Indonesia. Entering the seventh month of the outbreak the situation in Jakarta has been spiraling beyond control, indicated by a sudden rise of COVID-19 confirmed cases. The cases’ spikes may have been due to relaxed social restrictions policy and the more thorough test prior to August, as well as the lack of citizens’ adherence to social distancing measures. Nonetheless government response and governance during the ‘new normal’ period are also pertaining to the resurgence of COVID-19 cases. Thus, this paper aims to give elaborated exposition on the COVID-19 governance of Jakarta Provincial government during the new normal era. And how is the difference in response to the first phase and second phase of COVID-19 social restriction (PSBB)? We observed government negligence in enforcing necessary policies and measures to slow down the spread during the new normal period is one of the major influences for the resurgence of COVID-19 cases, consequently the situation stimulates the Jakarta Government to take a more serious approach to the crisis. The findings of this paper will contribute to the development and advancement of policy response and crisis management of subnational government.

The emergence and spread of the novel Coronavirus have placed a spotlight on the critical role of effective governance in managing a health crisis. In Indonesia, policymakers are continuously creating new ways to respond to the pandemic in order to manage its wide-ranging impacts. Similar to the rest of the world the highly heterogeneous impact of COVID-19 put the Indonesia Government in a difficult position. The government confined in a double crisis dilemma of health and the economy. As the crisis wreak havoc on Indonesia economy, the government has concentrated the countermeasures in dealing with the economic impact. And thus, this paper takes an in-depth look at Indonesia’s COVID-19 governance, as well as the rationale on why Indonesia seemingly prioritizes the economy with economy-oriented such as the social mobility policy in June. As a result, entering the sixth month of the pandemic, Indonesia continues to struggle to control rapid virus transmission. Realizing the severe health consequences, as well as a backlash, of downplaying the outbreak, the central government has stated that public health is instrumental and thus measures that to be taken will be based on the current health concerns. Nonetheless, in practice, the policies are still oriented towards economic recovery. Hence, this paper aims to answer the following research question: “What are the reasons for Indonesia’s ambivalent strategy in handling COVID-19?” this paper used qualitative analysis and the assessment utilized a desk review. The result shows that severe economic consequences and Indonesia’s limited capacity in providing assistance have forced Indonesia to reopen the economy to prevent large-scale financial crises. Practical implications of the findings and discussion can be treated as reflection and lessons learned to improve response strategy to the existing and future large-scale outbreak.

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Based on crunch model, the root causes of vulnerability for disaster are on political, natural, economic, and social aspect. To target these root causes, there is a need to have a focus on development of education. Education has an important role in increasing capacity of an individual and a community. Government of Indonesia (GoI) has prioritized the development of education of society even allocated about 20% of their spending. In addition, GoI has social protection program that also affected the education, particularly on children namely Indonesia smart program (Program Indonesia Pintar). For this paper, Cianjur District was chosen as case study due to several reasons. First, Cianjur is the most vulnerable district to disaster in West Java Province particularly for floods and landslides. Second, Cianjur is one of districts in West Java that have many social problems. The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of Indonesia Smart Program in increasing the capacity of children to strengthen disaster resilience in Cianjur District. The paper will present how Indonesia smart program implemented in Cianjur and what are the challenges in the process from beneficiary and government perspective.

According to the Indonesia Disaster Risk Index, one of the most prone districts to disaster in Indonesia is Cianjur District. The district is exposed to floods, landslides, droughts and geological hazards, such as tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Using the existing data that the district currently has, this study aims to explore more deeply about disaster risk management in Cianjur District, and to know whether Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) can be implemented to make disaster risk management better. Commonly used definition of SDI, it is said that SDI is data infrastructure implementing a framework of geographic data, metadata, users and tools that are interactively connected in order to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way, that is “the technology, policies, standards, human resources, and related activities necessary to acquire, process, distribute, use, maintain, and preserve spatial data. Therefore, this study aims to assess to what extent such framework has been used and can be improved given the characteristics of Cianjur District. This study selects flood data in Cianjur as the case study. The methods used are identifying flood vulnerable area in Cianjur by processing data from Development and Planning Agency of West Java Province, then comparing the results with current data of flood vulnerable area owned by BPBD Cianjur, disaster occurrences in the past and the business model of BPBD as well as coordination with other stakeholders, such as Social Agency and Health Agency.

Bandung city government implemented household biodigester grants in 2015 and 2016. Unfortunately, there are some household biodigesters that still functioning well but not in use. Therefore, this study is an effort to improve the acceptance and usage rate of household biodigesters in Bandung. The purpose of this study is to know citizen’s preference when it comes to household biodigester. To get the picture, we conducted survey through online questionnaire based on eight dimension of quality defined by Garvin (1987) as basis to construct factors that might be favoured by current and potential users of household biodigesters. Based on result of cluster analysis, three clusters with different preferences were interpreted and profiled through Welch’s ANOVA and Games-Howell Test. This study reveals that the cluster with the largest number of members shows reliability and features as the key to determining current and potential user’s preference. This study suggests the developer of household biodigester to choose cluster 1 and prioritize the aspect of reliability and feature within the development of the next household biodigester product to get higher level of public acceptance.