Indonesian colonial architecture: The Influence of Indonesian vernacular style over Dutch architecture in the case of the city of Batavia

The city of Batavia was the administrative capital of the V.O.C (United East India Company). Initially, the city’s construction followed the Dutch style, the Dutch administration going to enormous lengths and putting colossal efforts to segregate the ethnic groups present in the city and t exert their dominance. Over time, the city’s built...

Pantai Project 2019: Research into the feasibility of a plastic recycling business on Bali, Indonesia

Every year large quantities of plastic waste accumulate in Bali’s environment. This has a negative impact on Bali’s environment, local society and its tourist driven economy. With lacking waste management facilities and local awareness plastic waste enters Bali’s rivers, through which the waste ends up in the ocean. A concept small-scale...

Plastic Discharge in Bali’s Rivers

Indonesia is one of the largest ocean pollutants in the world in terms of plastic emissions. The country has many tourist areas, including the island of Bali, which is the main tourist hub. The plastic problem is large around and on Bali, which has negative consequences for both the environment and the tourism sector. NGOs and the government are...

Feasibility Study on Deep Seawater Solutions for Manado: ROTEC

Due to climate change and growing cities, water scarcity is becoming one of the futures biggest problems. On top of that, the population and prosperity of cities around the equator are growing fast. Meaning that the need for electricity, cooling and drinking water will grow fast in the following decades. ROTEC’s vision is that these growing...

The Application of Bayesian Network Model: Quantifying Riverine Flood Hazard in the Java Island

Water productivity assessment of rice paddies in Indonesia

IHE-Delft in cooperation with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) conducts a pilot project on assessing Crop Water Productivity in Asia, aiming to contribute to sustainable development in Asia’s irrigation sector, and create more value from scarce water resources. Indonesia is one of the 6 pilot countries where advanced technologies to measure...

Multi-disciplinary project PDAM Tirtawening, Dago Pakar - Bandung

In 2014 the Netherlands Enterprise Agency and PDAM Tirtawening Kota Bandung reached an agreement, to fund the project “Towards pro-poor private investments in water supply, Bandung”, about the improvement of the municipal water treatment plants of Bandung. This agreement establishes the financial support of the Dutch government towards the PDAM...

Bali Beach Project - an evaluation of the coastal structures in Bali, Indonesia

Manado: A Developing Coast

Manado, the capital city of North Sulawesi in Indonesia, is rapidly developing. The last years Manado has been extending into the sea, which changed the hydraulics and morphology of Manado Bay. This had negative effects on the currents, inducing erosion along the coast. Also Manado has problems with the presence of garbage in the rivers and...

Waterproof Manado: Life must be safe and secure, not only today but also in the future!

Manado City is growing, its population is increasing. This demands the city to grow outside its borders and even into the sea by using land reclamation. Introducing new challenges or making challenges bigger, which are already present. Not only growth is present in the city, going forward and becoming better and better is an on-going fight for...