Vol. 17 No. 1 (2006)

Jabodetabekjur Megapolitan issue which was launched at the same time with the revision of Law No. 34/1999 concerning The Government of DKI (Daerah Khusus Ibukota, Special District Region) Jakarta has raised pros and cons from different parties. Regencies and municipalities next to the DKI Jakarta immediately support this concept, while the Province of West Java and the Province of Banten respond differently against the concept. The emergence of pro and con, and inappropriate perception and responds toward this concept mainly come from lack of understanding of the concept, undeliverable the…

Regional development practices, which adopted "Spatial Planning System" concept, have been considered less effective and at the expense of underdeveloped regions. Therefore, underdeveloped regions empowerment has become a very important issue. The concept of Local Resources-based Regional Development has the potential as regional development practices reference. This concept emphasizes local empowerment and places local people as the key element in development, where local people are assigned a pivotal role in the regional development process through active participation. In rural West Java…

This article attempts to offer the paradigm of localism as an umbrella for spatial planning. It emphasizes that today; in the practical world of planning works in Indonesia there is a strong need to take local values (to include social, cultural, and local politics) as basis for spatial planning. Six planning parameters are proposed to bring the paradigm into the real world, they are: (i) the radius of uniqueness (ii) spatial existence, (iii) spatial defense, (iv) local community strengthens (v) local solution, and (vi) moral obligation of planner.Keywords: localism, spatial planning, local…

Overloading in freight transport has caused great concern to a number of transport authorities in many countries. A number of efforts, including to intensify load enforcement, deploy load permit scheme, and increase penalty for overloading offences, have been taken. Nevertheless, an optimistic outcome has not showed up to deter such offence to the moment. This paper tried to view another approach in tackling overloading by integrating multistakeholders"Ÿ perspectives in optimising load. It seems that overloading can be explained through the supply and demand concept. However, due to poor…