Shangri-La Hotel, Tainan, Taiwan ROC
Februari 24-25, 2010.
Marco’s Talk:
To Build City-Region Anew:
Space for Participation and Citizens’ Initiatives.
24 February 2010, at 16:45
February 23, 2010
Tokyo University, Sustainable City-Region Workshop 2009, Taiwan, 24-25 February 2010
February 6, 2010
Why do we need to redo Jakarta 2010-2030 Spatial Masterplan through a participatory process?
Also published in different editions in www.rujak.org and the Jakarta Post.
Jakarta needs its people. That is the simple but fundamental argument to redo Jakarta 2010-2030 Spatial Masterplan through a participatory process. Jakarta needs its people to own the plan so that they will participate in implementing it willingly. Participation builds a strong link called “ownership” between making and implementing a plan. They can only do so if they participate in the making of basic strategic options and decisions. This means deployment of a true participatory process that goes beyond passive “consultative participation” where people are merely asked their opinions about options and decisions that have been made or predetermined by others, usually the bureaucrats and their consultants.
