PLANNING FOR WHO?

SCOPE OF PLANNING

I want write this after my daughter send me a poem via sms on mother's day, 22 nd December 2008. She got it from her friend.
Planning should consider children, women, old people, disable people. We all live in the same place, world, city, neighborhood. Did we make a public service accessible, easy, convenience for them. Did we make a plan to prevent a crime happen to them?

Planning process should aware their existency and needs, combine with the environment, social and cultural awareness.

The Poem:
"Malaikat" kita (Our Angel)

bernyanyi ................ (Sing .........
tersenyum ............... (Smile........
membelai ................ (Touch ......
memeluk ................. (Hug ..........
sabar ....................... (Patient .....
perhatian................ (Care..........
memberikan cinta .. (Love ........
.................................
dan kita (and we
memanggilnya......... ( call her ...
"Ibu" ("Mother"
.................................
Spirit hari ibu, 22 Desember 2008. (The spirit of Mother's Day, 22nd December 2008)

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Well, it so sweet and so hard.
Seem, it is impossible for me .......................to be an angel

URBAN PEOPLE 2

PLANNING FOR YOUNG GENERATION

(Who are they? Where they come from?Why they go on street?

see on:spatial planning of your city, annual plan and budgeting, midterm planning and long term planning of your local government and central government. Probably, it is not enough. That's why, we can see the young generation go on street, that sometimes we called "Gepeng = gelandangan dan pengemis" ( homeless and begger).

STREET VENDOR

SREET VENDOR : WHO CARE OUR LUNCH?

(From Bandung with Love: The day when I visited my daughter at her schooll, ITB)

As a mother, I worried on my daugther healthy when she was far (Jakarta - Bandung) from me. How did she get lunch at school? Is it hygienic conditions and good for her body?

I saw several street vendors surround ITB (Institute Technology Bandung) and of course it was different condition with street vendor at Philadelphia - University of Pennsylvania, my school at Master Degree. Every street vendor connected with electric supply.

street vendor, my lunch at Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania

The next day, I knew that there were several kantin (small restaurant) inside ITB. The conditions are better, but the food price are higher than at street vendor. How many students got lunch there, and how many students took at street vendor - are among my questions?. The food price at kantin ITB is around 7000 rupiah to 20000 rupiah (1 dollar = 9500 rupiah). While at street vendor is around 3000 rupiah to 6000 rupiah. Then, the next question .....

As a challenge to know:

1. Price sensitivity of student?

2.How many student got diarrhea or stomach ache after got lunch at street vendor and after got lunch at kantin?

3. How many pharmacy around university and student home?

4. What kind the most medicine buy by student?

5. How much money to buy a medicine a month?

6. How to link between local/people economic development, spatial planning, environment and sanitation?

This is a challenge for planner, businessman, and local government. A challenge to implement a good planning, comprehensively. (ITB have Planning School, Architect, School Bussiness Management, Pharmacy, Biology, Environmental School, and Electrical School)

Is this a trade off- transfer cost from bad sanitation to healthy body?

SMALL TOWN

PLANNING FOR SMALL TOWN

AT SMALL ISLAND
(the experience during holiday with my daughter. Travel to Penyengat Island, Kepulauan Riau, 12 - 13 Juni 2008) Penyengat Island )

Do you remember
the poem "GURINDAM DUA BELAS"?

I saw the complete "Gurindam dua belas" on cemetary at Penyengat Island.

2 of 12 poems

Gurindam Fasal yang ke dua

Barangsiapa mengenal yang tersebut
Tahulah ia makna takut
Barangsiapa meninggalkan sembahyang
Seperti rumah tiada bertiang
Barangsiapa meninggalkan puasa
Tidaklah mendapat dua termasya
Barangsiapa meninggalkan zakat
Tiadalah hartanya beroleh berkat
Barangsiapa meninggalkan haji
Tiadalah ia menyempurnakan janji

Gurindam Fasal Yang Kelima

Jika hendak mengenal orang berbangsa
Lihat kepada budi dan bahasa
Jika hendak mengenal orang mulia
Lihat kepada kelakuan dia
Jika hendak mengenal orang yang berilmu
Bertanya dan belajar tiadalah jemu
Jika hendak mengenal orang yang berakal
Di dalam dunia mengambil bekal
Jika hendak mengenal orang yang baik perangai
Lihat pada ketika bercampur dengan orang ramai .....INTERESTING?

Islands
Do you know how many islands Indonesia have?
17000 islands, 6000 of them are inhabited. Five largest islands are Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua.
One of the island near Tanjung Pinang, Penyengat island, developed as religious heritage. Mosque, cemetary, and palace are tourist destination on that island. The view nice surrounding with the trees. Silence. A place for us to go andescape from busy and hectic time. Becak motor as a travel moda on that island. If you prefer walk, you can do it through paving block. But, it was too bad, I didn't see the place such as small hotel or wisma, for stay on that island.
How did I know this island? I didn't see promotion or information at the airport. Iknew this island from my friend, an old way of marketing - WOM (word of mouth) 0r viral marketing. Probably the local government forgot about the supply side (see Tourism Planning post) : attraction, services, transportation, information and promotion.

Song Lyrics

URBAN PEOPLE

URBAN PEOPLE : The Survivor
(2 weeks after BBM price increase)

During this difficult time, everybody will hope that miracle will happen. For people like street children, children who live with crowded family and children that abandon by their father or parents, single women parents with children will pray and hope that God will help them.

- crying in the middle of the night and
- silent crying with empty stomach -

The pray,
- Please God and angel help us -

Urban Animal

Tmunyon was sick, before died

Urban Park and Animal Species

(in memorial my Imut (8 years), Munyon (1,5 years), Tweety (1 years), and Creamer (3,5 months) )

Almost more than two months I left this blog. There were manythings happened. I was sick for a long time, my cats died, and a hectic at my office and family. I feel the meaningfull friendship of my cat and suffer from a loss of them. During that time, I also learn the meaning of a hope, an adore, an hOnesty and truly love.

Not like in the others countries, I rarely saw in Indonesia that urban parks have animals, eventhough parks in universities. Parks having animals inside are Surapati Parks and Bogor State Palace. There are a lot of deers in Bogor park and birds at Surapati Park. But in Indonesia, you can see animal on street such as hen, cats, and dogs, specially in housing or community area. There are no regular controlling institution to protect people from the spreading of animal street disease.

Urban Parks in several cities abroad had been planned comprehensively along with other elements of urban functions. While in Indonesia, based on a new regulation of Spatial Planning No.26/2007, total green space required is 30 % of total urban area. Urban parks as green space area have several purposes,an aerobic in the morning and afternoon, family gathering, and relaxing. Urban parks is well-planned and spread in certain areas having many people surround such as schools, universities, and health facilities; not only near stores.
If you had ever been study abroad, you will experience the joyful playing with the animal in the park. Those animals can bring you a happiness, cheerfulness and feel relax as the time you feel lonely, sad, and stress or depress. You can also learn and observe the animal.

I was very grateful having a chance to feed squirrels or birds in the University of Pennsylvania park during my lunch or after I finished my examination. Research from abroad showed that people claimed to visit the park especially to watch animals as a leisure activity, bring their children or grandchildren and other purpose.


A research also show that people give an attention to the animal was elicited mainly by movement and sound, and less by color of animal. If visitor interested with the behaviour of the animal, they will seek further information about the animals from books or the internet. (Prof.Dr.Christoph Randler, University of Leipzig, Institute of Biology I, Didactics of Biology, Johannisallee 21-23, Germany).

What kind of animals that usually appears in urban parks? They are Fallow deer (Dama dama), Mouflon (Ovis ammon), Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Picoides major), Blackbird (Turdus merula), Great Tit (Parus major), Blue Tit ( Parus caeruleus), Marsh Tit (Parus palustris), Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) and Nuthatch (Sitta europaea). (derived from Bretzendorfer 1987, Randles, study was partly funded by University of Education, PH Ludwigsburg, Germany and from the Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung Germany (JP C.R.).

Of course some of those animals aren’t usual in tropical countries like Indonesia. Probably, the animals living usually in Indonesian parks are birds, deers, monkeys, ducks, and swans.

Finally, the function of urban park is greater than we usually know. It’s not only enhance the quality of the cities to reduce the automobile or industry pollution, but also as a place for social events, relaxing, and learning. So, urban parks should be developed starting from the city spatial plan and should be supported and enhanced by media information for children visitors and managed for elderly visitors.

Urban Trees

Urban Trees
(Join the movement “Plant 1 million trees on your neighborhood”- launched by our first lady, Ibu Ani SBY”)
If you are traveling from one city to others, you will notice the different between one city and others. With the unique of welcoming entrance or street with green boulevard in the middle of it, you will impress. You will feel the difference and notice which city is manageable or unmanageable.

Recently, not many cities have a boulevard with good quality of street and trees along side the road. In our country, some old cities have boulevard, such as Malang and Bogor. Nowadays, not all new cities have boulevard. Some boulevards are built by developer and maintained by communities. On the other hand, trees along road have removed because road need widen.

Which area on your city has boulevard like this picture?
What do you feel if you walk through?

Trees are an important element of the city. Are there any places where you live without trees? Without trees, cities looks like a desert that you want to leave as soon as possible. Based on brochure “Urban Trees” from United States Department of Agriculture Southern Region, there are some benefits of trees:
1. Trees add beauty our city and improve personal health. Creating a relaxation and well-being.
2. Trees reduce air pollution, through absorb CO2 and other dangerous gases and, in turn, replenish the atmosphere with oxygen.

There are seven major pollutants and their primary sources:

(“Benefit of Urban Trees”, United States Department of Agriculture Southern Region, page 6)
Trees in the country like Indonesia actually are easy to plant. Water is abundant, soil are fertile. It is very different with desert country like Saudi Arabia. Trees in several cities are very well maintained. My tour guide in my pilgrimage journey mentioned that if you destroy the trees whether not on purpose, such as an accident, you must pay an expensive penalty (dam) even higher than the price of
used car.

So, why do not we plant trees in our small garden, our community area, our neighborhood and our road. You can see the benefit.

Do you have a dream that all road in your city looks like this?

Urban Quality

HOW TO ENRICH THE QUALITY OF YOUR CITY
Case: Urban Quality Management in Kuala Lumpur

One of the cities that I observed during my course in Malaysia, is Kuala Lumpur City. As the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur managers face grave challenges in managing the metropolis.

ISSUES OF URBAN QUALITY IN KUALA LUMPUR REGION

Urbanization in Malaysia is nevertheless, very rapid growth. KL is the focus of employment opportunities and as a result, rural-urban migration is fueling the growth of KL. Poor living conditions associated with squatter settlements; under supply of waste disposal facilities and portable water. Air pollution and high lead levels in exhausts are already generating health hazards in KL;

CURRENT STANDARDS

Some standard to measure the urban quality are (a) Malaysia Urban Quality Life Index (MUQLI); (b) Quality of Life; (c) Water Quality (Sewerage Management); (d) Air Quality.
(a) MUQLI
Malaysia defines a measurement call MUQLI (Malaysia Urban Quality Life Index). Some basic area of the MUQLI are working life, housing, transport & communication, health, education, social participation, income & distribution, culture & leisure, family life, environment and public safety.
(b)Quality of Life
Selected indicators of quality of life are life expectancy (in years), infant mortality rate/1000, population/doctor ratio, literacy rate (%), telephones/1000 population, utilities such as pipe water (% of population) and electricity (% of households).

Selected Indicator of Quality Life

NO.	AREA	1970	1990	2001
1	Life expectancy (in years): . Male . Female	61.6 65.6	68.9 73.5	70.3 75.2
2	Infant mortality rate/1000	39.4	13.0	7.9
3	Population/Doctor ratio	4,302	2,581	1,445
4	Literacy rate (%)	58	85	94
5	Telephones/1000 population	17	131	512
6	Utilities: . Pipe water (% of population) . Electricity (% of households)	48 44	80 80	93

(c)Water Quality
To monitor the quality of water, the government of Malaysia set up a standard based on the Interim River Water Quality. To control the level of pollution in the waterways, 2 effluent standards: (i) Standard A – for upstream of water catchments; (ii) Standard B – for downstream of water catchments. Effluent standards set as Absolute Standards. In design, an Average Standards much lower than the limits as on the below table.

Parameter	Standards A		Standards B
	Absolute	Average	Absolute	Average
BOD5 mg/L	20	10	50	20
SS mg/L	50	20	100	40

d) Air Quality
5 (five) major pollutants measured such as particulate matters (PM10), sulfur dioxide (SO2), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Carbon Monoxide (CO) and Ozone (O3). The ambient of air quality show below:

No.	Pollutants	Averaging Time	Ppm	ug/m3
1	Ozone	1 hour 8 hours	0.10 0.06	200 120
2	Carbon Monoxide	1 hour 8 hours	30 9	35 10
3	Nitrogen Dioxide	1 hour 8 hours	0.17 0.04	320
4	Sulfur Dioxide	10 minutes 1 hour 24 hours	0.19 0.13 0.04	500 350 105
5	TSP	241 hour 1 year		200 90
6	PM 10	24 hours 1 year		150 50
7	Lead	3 months		1.5

Some actions have been taken also to solve some of the challenges, such as establishment of regulations aimed at maintaining green areas, expanded and preservation of water resources in Wetland Areas,development of low cost housing, building new towns to balance development such as Putra Jaya township, development of e-government such as in Subang Jaya and strengthened partnership between the government and private sector in Shah Alam City (Selangor Development Corporation)

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1 Yogeesvaran, K., Principal Assistant Director Macroeconomic and Evaluation Section, Economic Planning Unit – Prime Minister’s Department Putrajaya, “Malaysia’s Economic Development”, presented 20 September 2002 at INTAN.

2 Include mobile phones
3 Universal coverage in urban areas
4 Universal coverage in urban areas

TOURISM PLANNING

TOURISM PLANNING

(Visit Indonesia Year 2008)

(Please think how city managers
manage for many people like this?

If you travel from one city to other city, from one country to other country, you will notice the difference. Please think what attraction that make you come to the new city?

Tourism consider as a system. It is market - supply match. There are major components of supply such as attractions, services, transportation, information, promotion. While market based on people who relatively similar service needs, so it needs segmentation.(Clare A. Gunn: Tourism Planning)

At the pilgrimages travel, religious motivation that make people travel to Saudi Arabia. Before we go to that place, there are criteria and guide for people. People who come to that place, not only prepare on physically but also mentally. All preparation make people and the situation at Pilgrimages City in order, eventhough they gathering in the limited place with many people.

So, if your city want to attract people, please make a clear guidance what the rule of your city. It will make your city still clean, safe, beauty and neatly. Be prepare and make sure all the system running well.

(Think about garbage, solid waste, pipe water, moda transportation, and police)