Jakarta Government through Regional Development Planning Agency (Bappeda) cooperates with The World Bank to hold South-South Knowledge Exchange Program Workshop in Jakarta City Hall, Monday (12/16).

Thus hopefully we can get inputs that can make Jakarta better

This workshop is divided into two sessions. First is Indonesia Metropolitan City Management, and second is International Cities Experience on Metropolitan City Management.  

Jakarta Bappeda's Acting Head (Plt), Suharti conveyed, this workshop is held to facilitate cities in Asia and Africa to share their experience and knowledge in order to overcome urban issues.

"All cities in the world have their own challenges, including Jakarta. Thus hopefully we can get inputs that can make Jakarta better," she mentioned, Monday (12/16).

According to her, there are several priorities in this workshop, especially that related with integrated urban transformation related to affordable housing, transportation, and flood control.

"Through this discussion, we want feedback from the participants regarding big city management," she added.

In this event, she informed, there are representatives from 10 cities in Asia and Africa, as well as 10 cities from Indonesia that will learn from Jakarta by observing directly the parts of Jakarta and learning its challenges.

"We will receive any inputs. If they see it as a good policy, they can implement it in their cities," she said.

Meanwhile, World Bank Country Director Program Leader of World Bank, Philip E. Karp explained, there are 84 representatives from 10 cities in Asia and Africa such as Daer es Salaam, Zanzibar, Nairobi, Kinshasha, Dakar, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Ho Chi Minh City, Chongqing, and Medellin.

"Then representatives from 10 cities in Indonesia. They are from Semarang, Solo, Bandung, Bogor, Balikpapan, Surabaya, Banjarmasin, Denpasar, Palembang, and Yogyakarta," he informed.

According to him, participants are the representatives from governmental sector, such as transportation and city planning agencies, who came to learn about the success of urban transformation in Jakarta and share experience among themselves.

"We will go to see different parts of the city, looking at affordable housing, particularly the way this affordable housing is addressing, and areas prone to flood and relocation. We also look at aspects such as addressing the flood risk in the area, seawall, pumping station, slum upgrading, particularly community land approaches for addressing informal settlement," he stated.