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TOP REPORT                                                 Jakarta is the biggest and the most
                                                                 populated city in Indonesia. It also has
                                                                 some issues, such as proverty and un-
                                                                 equal access to public facilities. Thus,
                                                                 I believe there should be something to
                     Head of Jakarta Regional
                        Cooperation Bureau,                      support and enhance their economy.
                                                                 This JDCN was initiated in order to make
                          Andhika Permata:                       modernity in its physical appereance,
                                                                 as well as its socio-cultural aspect: it’s
                                                                 what we called Jakarta City Regenera-
                                                                 tion, in which we implement the model
                                                                 of City 4.0, where we put the residents
                      “We Need The                               as the co-creators and the government
                                                                 as the collaborators.
                 Citizens To Deliver
                                                                 Can you elaborate the JDCN Forum?
                        Their Ideas”                             It’s a network for local and interna-

                                                                 tional development, to formulate and
                                                                 to find solutions on how to implement
                                                                 those development through a collab-
                                                                 oration with all of the citizens. Besides
                                                                 the government themself, the institu-
                                                                 tions, community groups, UMKMs (Mi-
    12                                                           cro, Small, Medium Enterprises), as well
                                                                 as the individuals are invited to deliver
                                                                 their ideas to build Jakarta through this
                                                                 platform called JDCN.

                                                                 How is the  collaboration pattern?

                                                                 It’s quite simple: every citizen can offer
                                                                 assistance  to  another  citizen.  The  gov-
                  he Provincial Government of  Jakarta           ernment will take the role as facilita-
                  keeps on trying to enhance the quality         tor, by providing collaboration platform
             T of our beloved city, be it the physical as        that connects the donors and the recip-
             well as the citizens. But there are things to be    ients.
             faced: not all of their plans will be accept-
             ed  fully  by  the  citizens.  Hence,  the  Jakarta   What issues become the focus of JDCN?
             government initiated Jakarta Development
             Collaboration Network (JDCN) Forum 2020.            There are numbers of things that be-
             Through this program, the government wants          come the focus of JDCN. For example,
             to engage the citizens to be actively partici-      problems related to environment issue,
             pate by delivering ideas to build Jakarta.          like disaster management, water pollu-
                                                                 tion, soil and air quality, and many oth-
             How  is the collaboration held by the Jakar-        ers. The employment sector also be-
             ta government in order to develop the city?         come the focus, including the quality of
                                                                 education and UMKM development.
             Read our interview with Head of Jakarta Re-
             gional Cooperation Bureau  (KSD), Andhika           How about the infrastructure
             Permata.                                            development?

             What encourages the launch of JDCN?                 It is also the main focus, as it relates
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