The Making of Jakarta’s Image and Identity through Infrastructure Transitions and City Axes Formation from Colonial to Post-colonial City Planning and Politics

Infrastructure is a system in cities that is designed to aid the life of the people. In Jakarta, the trace can be found throughout history with a major one started in the colonial period with city wall and canals construction. Eventually, the post-colonial government took over and continued the infrastructure development in forms of street and...

Congestion-based Dial-a-Ride Problem: A Jakarta Case Study

In current literature, the addition of environmental cost such as fuel consumption or emission is already prevalent. However, the studies aim to improve the behavior of the vehicle while little attention is paid to the holistic view of a city and over-polluted arcs. In an attempt to address this gap, this research aims to develop policies...

Flood resilience of coastal communities in Jakarta - Indonesia: An exploratory agent-based study on emergence of flood adaptation and migration behaviour under various socio-environmental policy conditions

Climate change is happening and has an increasingly great impact on nature, ecosystems, biodiversity and human society. To reduce adverse consequences of hazards for current and future generations, one must understand how adaptation behavior of civil societies could develop itself over time, interact with its environment and effect its ecosystem...

Scrutinizing Consumer-Citizen Duality Towards Safety and Travel Time Trade-Offs: A Case Study of On-Demand Motorbike Taxi in Jakarta

Capturing the individual’s behavioral responses to the actions driven by market and government will always be an interesting activity towards a broad spectrum of society. It could not be neglected that an individual may have different views in responding towards a new policy intervention or a new product market. However, references to use of the...

Reciprocal Impacts of Land Settlement and Jakarta Rail Tunnel: Numerical analysis of MRT Jakarta North-South Line Phase 2

Significant development of Jakarta infrastructure is necessary to keep up with the economic growth. For the new Jakarta underground rail network, imminent extension of the North-South Line Phase 1 (NSL-P1) tunnel heads towards the northern part of city. One of the engineering challenges that exist in the area is the substantial amount of...

Performing data assimilation experiments with hydrodynamic models: A Java Sea case

Floods are a big problem for Jakarta; the capital of Indonesia is subsiding below mean sea level and floods will become more frequent. Flood protection and measures against subsidence are, therefore, of high importance to Jakarta’s government. One of the options they are studying is a great sea wall to regulate the water levels in Jakarta Bay....

How to protect East Jakarta against flooding: Which interventions are required to cope with the different scenarios of land subsidence

Jakarta is heavily subjected to land subsidence. Due to this subsidence, the city is sinking further to under sea level. This has influence on the flood safety, both from an extreme sea event as an extreme rainfall event. The major cause of the subsidence is assumed to be the groundwater extraction, which takes place due to a lack of piped water...

JaJakarta - The anarchistic factory as an alternative for squatting

Jabodetabek, the urban agglomeration consisting of DKI Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi, is the second fastest growing megacity on the planet (Robinson, 2011). Current projections show that Jabodetabek’s population will reach 38 million people in 2030 (Jakarta municipality, 2014). However, this growth will take place in a city that is...

JaJakarta - Innercity Industries

Our research group aimed to map and understand some of the major issues Jakarta is facing. From a larger scale towards the smallest scale, many problems seem to be connected. We have tried to display and explain these issues in our research book. While visiting one of the city's most notorious spots, the Tanah Abang area, I became fascinated by...

Jajakarta - Tools and strategies to increase the density of Jakarta’s inner-city kampungs

This project is part of a groupproject called Jajakarta, a manifesto to double the population density of Jakarta. Jabodetabek, the urban agglomeration consisting of DKI Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi, is the second fastest growing megacity on the planet (Robinson, 2011). Current projections show that Jabodetabek’s population will...

JaJakarta - Kota Kampung Integral

Our research group aimed to map and understand some of the major issues Jakarata is facing. From a larger scale towards the smallest scale, many problems seem to be interlinked. We have tried to display and explain these issues in our research book. Understanding the city to be a Kota- Kampung symbiosis leads to a research into the mechanisms of...

Subsurface Freshwater Storage & Recovery In Artificial Islands: Case Study of Pluit City Land Reclamation Jakarta, Indonesia

This research seeks to discover the possibilities of Artificial Storage and Recovery (ASR) in an artificial urban island in Jakarta, to increase water security and provide a sustainable water supply.

Jakarta dams and walls

After giving a short general introduction on the area and the general problems in that area, this report starts with an extensive list of relevant boundary conditions for the Jabodetabek area in chapter 2. The most notable parts of this chapter are the large subsidence for Jakarta and the river discharges in the Jabodetabek area. While still...

The Case of Jakarta: A City with an Isolated Bus Rapid Transit: formulating a design strategy to establish an integrated transit oriented development in Jakarta using the existing bus rapid transit system

Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia, a developed country in the Southeast Asia. With the population of 23 million, Jakarta and the surrounding area is the 4th largest urban area in the world. As the result, Jakarta suffers from inadequate facility such as severe traffic jams caused by too much commuting from areas around Jakarta, and air...

Finding Sustainable Solutions for Situ Babakan: A preventive approach towards slum forming in kampong peripheries in Jakarta

Kampongs in Jakarta are usually associated with slum areas because it is an informal part of the city that does not get any support in development from the government. What used to be an informal settlement area consisting a group of inhabitants with specific background, has merged with the urban tissue of the city and become part of the city....