YOUR GUIDE TO THE FUTURE

Much of the discussion on the Smart City concept are related to the implementation of technological aspect. Pratama and Imawan (2019), thus explore the government bureaucracy aspect of the implementation of the concept to analyse what are crucial elements to get a successful smart city.

The national government of Indonesia created a website that can be used as a platform to report and voice citizens’ aspiration which the system has been integrated among 34 ministries, 96 public institution and 493 local governments.

Smart City vision opens a new way of engagement between the cities government and their citizen with the creation website platforms to communicate policies and information. This initiative is also supported by various legal documents that push the idea of transparent government.

Due to its geographic condition, Indonesia is vulnerable to various natural and man-made disasters such as earthquakes, flooding, forest fires etc. In order to better prepare and mitigate the disaster, Indonesia’s Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) led the initiative of using technology to map the disaster-prone areas with Geographic Information System.

With the rise of the concept of Mobility as a Servicer (MaaS), the use of ride hailing apps in cities including in Indonesia flourish. Ride hailing, especially the motorcycle type is popular in Indonesia’s cities as they are convenient, relatively reliable and accessible. However

With 34 Province and 514 cities in Indonesia, the problem and priorities among the local governments varied significantly. With limited resource and capital, local governments are encouraged to be innovative in solving challenges and issues in their areas.

In realising the Smart City, the challenge that the government of Medan City must solve is the lack of coordination between the service agencies and partners outside the local governments. Due to differing duties and priorities of the various agencies, there was a disintegration in realising the vision. In realising the Smart City, the challenge that the government of Medan City must solve is the lack of coordination between the service agencies and partners outside the local governments. Due to differing duties and priorities of the various agencies, there was a disintegration in realising the vision.

Kampung Glintung, a neihbourhood in City of Malang leads the way in initiating a community movement that creates a healthier living environment. This neighbourhood were an area prone to flooding before the community started to build and install Biopore Infiltration Wells in their area.

With the upgrade of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) by the Police Department in Jakarta in their CCTV System, the Electronic Traffic Law Enforcement (ETLE) was launched simultaneously. The smart system was installed to detect traffic offense by motorised vehicle using the road.

To encourage the development of Small and Medium Enterprises in City of Jogjakarta, the government invites young entrepreneur by creating and facilitating creative and collaborative space through-out city. Government agencies such as the Department of Tourism and Culture and the ICT Department open up their office spaces as co-working spaces for young entrepreneurs that needs space for their new start-ups.

The capital city of Jakarta rolled out a scheme that integrated the various transportation mode in Jakarta, called Jaklingko. This scheme is the government effort to create reliable, seamless and comfortable public transportation system that serves the greater Jakarta metropolitan by not only integrating the infrastructure but also ticketing and fare system.

City of Semarang is one of Indonesia’s largest city in terms of population number. The activity of the 1,8 million people in Semarang produces around 1200 tonnes of waste each day. This becomes a huge problem for the municipality. With the help of the president’s decree, the solution proposed were to use the waste as a source of energy.

Population growth and the development of the city have caused the City of Semarang to be vulnerable to not only floods but also drought. The intense built-up area in the city have caused the heavy water to run off that creates flooding during rainy season and reduced the capacity of ground water absorption that creates clean water scarcity during the dry season.

City of Batam prioritise the creation of a city environment that supports innovation and creativity as part of their economic development strategies. As city island with limited resourece, City of Batam sees the potential of their manufacturing and creative industry as their future economic power.

City of Batam is unique as the administrative area includes three main islands and several smaller islands. This geographical condition has an impact on the limited clean water that can be used for daily consumption of drinking and cleaning.

As a response to the “100 Smart City Initiative” lead by the Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Informatics, City of Samarinda started to formulate plans in creating their Smart City in 2016. The municipality incorporated the vision in their 5-year City Development Plan.

To establish the Smart City Vision in City of Samarinda, the municipality took a step further then just mainstreaming the vision in the Planning Documents. As technology and information system is an essential part of the vision, the City’s Communication and Informatics Agency created a framework that ensure integration in this sector and maintain sustainability of the vision and actions.

As part of the integration of the city management and development tools in City of Surabaya. The Department of Information,Communication and Technology is given the responsibility to integrates the data that are initially scattered all through the different departments and agencies in the city government.

City development that prioritise the environmental sustainability is the value that City of Surabaya hold. To ensure this value is implemented by the city’s officials, City of Surabaya utilize an integrated system not only in the planning process but throughout the implementation andalso monitoring & evaluation process.

In the neighbourhood level in Indonesia, there is usually a certain figure that would be the representative of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. The representatives are the cities’ informal helping hand in managing the inhabitants, usually their work is related to administrative civil documenting such as knowing who come in and move out from the neighbourhood,taking notes on birth and death numbers.

City of Banjarbaru is a medium size city in terms of population size but has quite a large geographical size. This could mean that public service may not always be physically available nor that the citizen living in a more remote area has access to the information on public services that they can get. The city government come up with solution that simplify the process both for the citizens and the government officials.

The limited resource that the city government’s have may limit its capacity to deliver service or run certain programs. City government may have to work around the limited financial capacity or the limited human resource capacity. Thus, partnership with certain private enterprise may be an option for city government ensure the delivery of services to the public.

Social media can be a powerful tool for city government to communicate with the public. City of Tangerang has built an app that not only provide information for citizens on the city’s program and services, but also built-in citizen reporting platform. With the integrated system reports from any social media platform could then be followed up as soon as possible torelated city agency.

Our urban built-up area is made up of materials that absorbs heat. The trapped heat caused a phenomenon called Urban Heat Island Effect that make our city’s temperature goes up. The Urban Heat Island Effect exacerbate the air pollution and threatens our health.

Changing demographic, rapid technological advancement and climate crises are some of the pressing issues that cities have to accommodate in an unprecedented pace. Moreover, as we are struggling to work through the pandemic, it has become clearer that we need and urban governance systems that are adaptive to ever changing conditions and uncertainties.

AR/VR technology empowers planners to visualize and refine cities digitally before construction, minimizing risks and maximizing efficiency.