Sidabalok, Hotmauli (2022) Power to The People: An Integrated Approach for Governance Innovation Through Local Energy Initiatives for Urban Coastal Communities in Indonesia Case Studies Semarang and Balikpapan. Project Report. Soegijapranata Catholic University, Semarang. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
The main focus of the ANGIN – Power to the People project is on identifying the possibility to develop an idea for local energy initiative development in Indonesia. Due to Covid-19 restricting the mobilities of the involved researchers, the implementation of the original proposal for the project submitted in 2019 has been amended in 2020. However, the budget- neutral extension of the project by KNAW has made it possible to achieve a realistic project goal. Community resilience, especially related to energy, is the key issue highlighted in our project. Research has shown that community involvement is essential for supporting, creating and implementing resilience initiatives as well as ensuring sustainable development of local communities, including the introduction of new and renewable energy (NRE) initiatives. In addition, there are of course also environmental and societal benefits from generating NRE in small scale-local projects, as it can be an effective means through which sustainable development outcomes can be achieved. At this scale, people can also engage as individuals and as larger social units leading to a new level of awareness and sense of responsibility in terms of how to protect the local environment and population without this being at the loss of necessary income prospects. Although the introduction of local energy initiatives might offer interesting opportunities for the local community and added benefits in Indonesia, their implementation and applicability might still be questioned. The involvement of the local community in NRE development might produce complex questions of governance mechanism that, in part, require collective action among stakeholders at different scales – in geographic and governance terms. In this project, we tried to observe how do the local community and also the public authority especially at the local level perceive the idea of local energy initiatives together with their perceptions on climate change and renewable energy in general. Initially, apart from conducting semi-structured interviews and focus groups discussions with stakeholders, we would also like to develop and introduce game simulation in a stakeholders-workshop setting, to facilitate more efficient decision-making processes in urban planning and developments, here applied particularly to the introduction of local energy initiatives. This plan has been slightly adjusted due to the Covid-19 restrictions. But we managed to achieve the goal of the project with those adjustments through online meetings via zoom to exchange ideas among the Dutch and Indonesian researchers, writing via google drive to share the information and a lot of discussions, conversation via WhatsApp group to coordinate the activities and also to develop the sense of connection among the partners even though we are thousands of kilometres apart.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Project Report) |
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| Subjects: | 300 Social Sciences > 320 Political science > 321 Systems of governments & states > Democracy 300 Social Sciences > 340 Law > 349 Law of specific jurisdictions & areas 300 Social Sciences > 360 Social problems and social services > Ecology |
| Divisions: | Graduate Program in Environment and Urban Studies |
| Depositing User: | Ms Hotmauli Sidabalok |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2024 05:25 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Mar 2024 05:25 |
| URI: | http://repository.unika.ac.id/id/eprint/35089 |
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