The 1st IRSA

International Institute

The Institute

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ITB

Bandung

 

The 1st IRSA International Institute

“Sustainable Regional Development:

The Role of Infrastructure in 

Achieving Millenium Development Goals”

 

Bandung, November 2-3, 2007

 

hosted by

 

Indonesian Regional Science Association

 

itb wf

ITB

bapeda

West Java Provincial Government

 

 

 

A. Background

 

There is a growing concern in Indonesia and other parts of the world about insufficient capacity and poor condition of infrastructure. Indonesia faces major challenges in its infrastructure sectors as it seeks to consolidate and accelerate its still fragile economic recovery, improve its international competitiveness, and increase access to basic public services including health, communications, construction, transportation, energy, manufacturing and education. Global experience has shown that infrastructure is an important factor for improving health, education, and environment, fostering economic growth, and reducing poverty – all components of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

 

According to a World Bank’s recent study (2006) entitled “Indonesia Averting Infrastructure Crisis”, the state of infrastructure is a difficulty rather than a help to regional development. Risks of power outages are discouraging investors in new factories, traffic congestion in and around major cities is worsening the quality of environment (e.g., increasing noise and air pollutant levels), longer travel times are making businesses uncompetitive. Worsening seaports and railway stations, the decaying of highways, and other problems are evident and mounting, while many transportation services are in poor and deteriorating condition and a lack of safety. Many households have no access to piped clean water, and limited access to telecommunications, and electricity. The report also rise several issues that go beyond individual infrastructure sectors include a lack of credibility to mobilize private investments, poor public management, insufficient user charges, inadequate financing, difficult decentralization challenges, unclear allocation of responsibilities among public authorities, insufficient strategic planning and coordination capacity, high political and regulatory risks, and high levels of corruption. As a result, Indonesia’s infrastructure quality ranks among the lowest in the region and is affecting growth, poverty reduction, foreign investment, and the environment (World Bank, 2006).

 

Moreover, as Indonesia embarked on a major decentralization in 2001, decentralization has created uncertainty as to which the central government has transferred many responsibilities relating to infrastructure provision to local authorities. The situation is worsening by the fact that some decentralization implementing regulations are inconsistent with others, as well as with existing national sector regulations. In regional economic development under the atmosphere of decentralization, the sharing of this responsibility among level of jurisdiction stills needs to be determined and discussed.

 

To this end, we need to understand more the appropriate role, responsibilities and relationships for the various functions that need to be performed in the infrastructure sector, including policy making, financing, service provision and regulation between central and local authorities. This is significantly necessary to formulate the best strategy and policy for regional economic development in Indonesia that is more decentralized, particularly, when the role of public services, poverty, and the environment are of central importance and closely inter-related.

 

 

B. Objectives

 

To help overcome challenges posed by the above problems, this institute will attempt to generate transfer of knowledge as well as discussion and debate on formulating innovative methods, strategies and approaches for sustainable regional development and planning. These may go beyond sector-specific issues including the utilization of tools, methods and theoretical frameworks specifically designed for assessing and evaluating infrastructure development, planning, and policy.

 

Through organization of this institute we expect to accomplish the following: 1. To carry out an evaluation of the current status of regional development in Indonesia, 2. To help in the transfer of important information on the current trends in the infrastructure development, planning and policy 3. To publish a technical document based on the proceedings of the seminars. All papers, apart from invited review papers, must present original work; they should not have been published elsewhere.

 

 

C. Institute Topics 

 

The 1st IRSA International Institute is a series of lectures with several paper sessions in between.  The lectures and paper sessions are organized on topics such as Economic Growth and Development; Poverty; Decentralization, Governance, and Regional Inequality; Urban and Regional Systems, Infrastructure Development and Finance, Interregional Migration, Urban and Interregional Transportation, Resource Utilization, Impact Analysis, Regional Modeling, Regional and Urban Planning, Environmental Quality; Location of Economic Activity, and Energy Issues. Lecture consists of a significant time for the lecturer to discuss a current important topic followed by a question and answer session.  Paper sessions are seminar-style with a discussant for each paper and ample time for discussion and constructive feedback to authors.

 

More specifically, some suggested topics pertaining to the infrastructure development challenges to be addressed at the institute are the following:

 

š       Role of Infrastructure Investment in Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction;

š       Mitigating Conflicts Between Infrastructure Development and Environment;

š       Government Policies for Promoting Sustainable Infrastructure and Growth;

š       Infrastructure Development of Eastern Indonesia;

š       Infrastructure Finance and Investment: Transportation, Water, Energy, and Communication

 

 

Lecturers are only by invitation, while papers for the paper sessions are for everyone to submit.  For the paper session, papers on any regional science topic are welcome. 

 

 

D. Pre-Institute Workshops

 

A particular feature of this IRSA International Institute is the establishment of workshops as a means of stimulating new research in regional science. They have varied widely both in aims and organization. The tentative topics for this full-day pre-institute workshops are “Spatial Analysis and Representation”, and “Indonesia Inter-Regional Input-Output Tables”. Suggestions for, and offers to organize new workshops are always welcome. This Workshop will take place on Thursday, 1 November 2007 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and will be held in the ITB campus. The primary organization will be undertaken by the IRSA, coordinated by Ibnu Syabri and Suahasil Nazara. While the working language of the Institute are English, the working language of the workshops will be Bahasa Indonesia.

 

Workshop lecture topics include: Exploratory spatial data analysis, spatial regression analysis, and, and impact analysis. Participants will gain hands-on experience in a computer lab with GeoDa and PyIO, programs developed by the instructors to analyze spatial data and impact analysis.

 

Fee                        :  Rp. 1,000,000.- (includes workshop fee, softwares, and special materials fee)
Enrollment limit    :   30

 

 

 

E. Expected Participants

 

  1. Members of the Indonesian Regional Science Association (IRSA)
  2. Members of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)
  3. Academician
  4. Government officials in Indonesia (BAPPENAS, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Public Works, Ministry of  Transportation, Ministry of Communication and Information,  and other central government entities)
  5. Regional government officials in Indonesia (Province/Kabupaten/Kota Bappeda, Dinas Offices, others)
  6. Non-Governmental Organizations
  7. Private sectors (Telkom, PLN, PDAM, Jasa Marga, PT Garuda, PT Pelni, PT KAI)
  8. International donor communities (Usaid, AusAID, DFID, GTZ, JICA, others)
  9. Interested parties from other regional science and economics societies

 

 

F. Institute Venue

The Institute venue is in the campus of Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Bandung, Indonesia (web address: http://www.itb.ac.id/en/about_itb/). The ITB campus is located in the center of  Bandung, one of the famous cities in Indonesia. Within walking distance of the campus, the travel and transport centre offering intensive local public transport to destinations near and far. The ITB campus, as well as other places in Bandung can be found in this link here: http://www.asiatravel.com/indonesia/travel_info/about_bandung.html

 

ITB was founded in 1920. The present ITB main campus is the site of earlier engineering schools in Indonesia as an institution of higher learning of science, technology, and fine arts, with a mission of education, research, and service to the community.

 

ITB Campus Address:

Office: Jl. Tamansari 64 Bandung 40116,
Campus: Jl. Ganesha 10, Bandung 40132 Indonesia
Tel & Fax +62-22-2500935

Recommended hotels for participants:

1.         Wisma Dago Hotel, Sawunggaling Hotel

This middle class hotel is located near the university complex.  The distance between hotels and the Institute venues is about 300-800 m.

2.         Holiday Inn,  Jayakarta Suite Hotel, Sheraton, Patra Bandung Hotel

Located outside but near (walking distance) the university complex, these hotels are situated in the heart of the expanding city of Bandung.  Daily transportation will be provided to bring participants to and from the Institute venues.

 

 

G. Institute Fee

The Institute fee is Rp 350.000,- per participant covering:

·         Institute kits (including CD containing lectures and papers presented in the Institute and Institute souvenir)

·         Two lunches

·         Dinner (including Parahyangan cultural performances)

 

 

H. Organizer

 

This Institute is jointly organized by:

  • Indonesian Regional Science Association (IRSA)
  • West Java Provincial Government (PEMPROP JABAR)
  • Institute of Technology Bandung

 

The Structure of the organizer is as follows:

 

Advisory Committee:

  1. Bambang Bintoro Soedjito (Advisory board of IRSA / ITB)
  2. Tommy Firman (Advisory borad of IRSA / ITB)
  3. Bambang Brodjonegoro (President of IRSA / The Dean of FEUI)
  4. Armida Alisjahbana (Vice President of IRSA / Padjadjaran University)
  5. Budy Resosudarmo (ANU)
  6. Hastu Prabaatmodjo (ITB)
  7. Eko Luky Wuryanto (BAPPENAS)

 

Organizing committee:

  1. Ibnu Syabri (ITB)
  2. Suahasil Nazara (FEUI)
  3. Nuzul Achyar (FEUI)
  4. Candra Fajri Ananda (FEUB)
  5. Pradono (ITB)
  6. Mudrajad Kuncoro (UGM)
  7. Monty Girianna(BAPPENAS)

 

Coordinator in-charge:

  1. Devi Retnowati (ITB)
  2. Shanty Y Rahmat (ITB)
  3. Mulia Hamonangan (FEUI)

 

 

I. Institute Secretariat

 

  1. Dr. Ibnu Syabri

Urban and Regional Infrastructure System Research Division

School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development

Bandung Institute of Technology

5th Floor Labtek IX-A,

Jalan Ganesha 10, Bandung, 40132, Indonesia

Phone  : +62 (22) 250-4735

Fax      : +62 (22) 250-1263

Mobile : +628122049004

E-mail  : syabri@pl.itb.ac.id, syabri@gmail.com

Website: www.pl.itb.ac.id/irsa2007/

 

 

  1. Dr. Suahasil Nazara

Demographic Institute

Faculty of Economics–University of Indonesia

Depok Campus, 16424 Indonesia

Phone +62 (21) 7872911

Fax +62 (21) 7872909

E-mail: nazara@ldfeui.org

Website: www.irsa.or.id/event.htm