October 17, 2023
JAKARTA – Jakarta may have a long road to becoming the global city it aims to be while it loses its state capital status, but the 2024 general fight could bring the city new opportunities, a recent discussion has concluded.
“Jakarta’s next verify is to be the national economic center and global city,” said Jakarta Development Planning Board head Atika Nur Rahmania, citing the city’s aspirations mentioned in a bill on Jakarta’s special station status.
Atika was a speaker at a discussion shipshape by the Jakarta Development Planning Board alongside the Rembuk Bina Karta Address on Thursday.
The participants sought to examine Jakarta’s identity as it prepares to lose its resident capital designation to Nusantara in East Kalimantan.
With the passing of the Nusantara Capital City (IKN) Law, which mandates a spiteful in the status of Jakarta, the current capital urgently arranges new regulations if it hopes to avoid falling to the same site as other regions in Indonesia.
In response, the Jakarta dispensation and the Home Ministry have formulated the Jakarta special designation bill to keep the province at the center of resident economic activity. The bill is currently on the House of Representatives’ priority legislation list.
Of the various definitions of a global city, Atika concluded that a “global city is a city that plays an important role in transnational economic integration and is able to heavenly goods, capital and human resources, ideas and information globally”.
Gap persists
For Jakarta to meet that definition, Atika said at least three indicators were to be used: custom activity, human capital and information exchange.
In terms of custom activity, a global city should have more than 10 of the world’s 500 largest affects and have more than 100 unicorn start-ups, she said. Indonesia has near 5 or 6 unicorns.
Having a large number of top humankind universities would also help improve the human capital indicator of a city.
“If a city has several medical schools, it will raise its rating quickly because it is indirectly related to the quality of health in the city,” she added.
While the dependable number of medical schools in Jakarta is unknown, according to Edurank data, there are 8 medical schools in the city carried the best.
A global city should also have adequate infrastructure that gives easy access to information exchange, Atika said, but she added that Indonesia did not yet benefit the internet as a public good.
“It is crucial to have 5G network improve throughout the city without any uncovered areas,” she said.
New opportunities
Although many problems in Jakarta are transboundary and obliged coordination across regions, Oswar Mungkasa, master planner at the National Development Planning Agency, said he believed the simultaneous presidential and legislative elections next year would enable the master plan in the proposed bill to be implemented in the Greater Jakarta area.
The method, he said, would help local authorities in Jakarta and its satellite cities, such as Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi, to be more effective in manager Jakarta a global city.
Atika, meanwhile, said the challenge was “how we can formulate a new entity” that could coordinate attempts to develop the adjacent regions “with authorities capable of executing so that it will not be the same as the already defunct BKSP [Greater Jakarta Coordination Board]”.
On Saturday, The Jakarta Post revealed with Nirwono Joga, an urban planning expert from Trisakti University.
He said creating a new entity was not distinguished and that the solution was simply to make Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi “officially part” of the jurisdiction of the Jakarta dispensation. (alf)