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The Indonesia International Institute for Urban Resilience and Infrastructure (i3URI) is founded to in the middle of global raising awareness
of acquiring a state of resiliency of any society, be it in an urban or rural setting. The global and national physical, environmental and
societal changes have been going on at their own pace, unwittingly that these may lead to a large scale and surprising crisis that people
might suffer. i3URI envisions on contributing to the world of knowledge on exploring and promoting the embodiment of the concept of a
total harmony between sustainable economic growth, livable urban and ecological health. These should also take into account the
inclusivity towards local diversity and the indigenous values.
The initiative commences with the facts that the world is facing a serious on-going and future threat to humankind due to latent
environmental devastation, increasing frequencies of natural and human induced disasters, steady and ever growing impacts of global
warming and climate change, resource based and communal conflicts, lack of intercultural understanding, the resource thirsty and
unhealthy metabolism of megacities with the accompanying urban style and migration. These includes issues like energy, water, health,
and food securities. Science is believed to have unlimited ways of resolving those pressing and important issues. Special focus may be
given to the tropical maritime geographical country like Indonesia with its megadiversities in natural, ethnical, social, cultural and political
aspects within the current highly dynamic changes.
i3URI bears its mission to be joining the world knowledge centers of excellence, while at the same time it should also be able to address
the window of opportunity of our demographic bonus creating innovative group of people with global orientation but locally rooted young
minds and talents. The marked tendency of making our cities and regencies to become green should be taken as a positive opportunity for
a new green market, along with the development of huge infrastructure the country needs. These major tasks of i3URI will face their
challenging time within the coming decade, whereby efforts towards acquiring the global excellence in high quality research will have to
be in line with the growing market demand.
It is my great pleasure to serve this newly born institution and to share the challenging future with all the best brains in the world in
endeavouring our common journey in this very changing socioscape and enviroscape. We hope that this may serve you and opens further
healthy and growing cooperation.
Jakarta, May 20th, 2014
Prof. Dr. Ir. Jan SOPAHELUWAKAN, M.Sc.

• Urban Resilience and Sustainable
Infrastructure Seminar, Monday, May 19th,
2014
– A unique, broad based and comprehensive Seminar
is organized by i3URI together with the Embassy of
Sweden, Indonesia International Institute for Life
Sciences (i3L), and Ministry of Research and
Technology. It is with great pleasure that we invite
you to a full day session focusing on the challenges
and opportunities of Urban Resilience and
sustainable infrastructure in Indonesia. The sessions
will be held at the premises of Indonesia
International Institute for Life Sciences, Jakarta, as
part of the Swedish-Indonesian Innovation Weeks
program.
– This action oriented Seminar is aimed at forming a
national and global platform on urban resiliency and
infrastructure provision towards sustainable
development. It brings together the policy makers,
planners, academician and knowledge workers, and
top actors in the green regional development,
property and infrastructure industry, as well as the
international finance and investment institutions. It is
expected to bring forth new knowledge and
experience sharing on urban resilience and
sustainable infrastructure in Indonesia, Sweden and
elsewhere that will strengthen and help accelerate
and configure of joint partnerships.

Jakarta: flood proof city 2030!
• Jakarta suffers from a complex and chronic flood problem , however the scientist at the Indonesian Institute of
Sciences still see some hope to make this city as a Disaster-Resilient Cities 2030. With no strategic effort, the
potentially sinking Jakarta in 2030 may continue to occue due to land subsidence and flooding from the 13 rivers. To
reduce vulnerability and strengthen the resilience, Jakarta should be transformed into a city that is familiar with the
water , " said Jan Sopaheluwakan , a senior researcher at the Research Centre for Geotechnology Indonesian Institute
of Sciences ( LIPI ) , in a discussion on" Dealing with the worst flood scenario of Jakarta " , Thursday ( 23/1 ) , in
Jakarta. North of Gambir region should become a blue zone . Gambir southward should be the green zone , " said Jan.
Blue zone should be allocated for more water reservoirs by forming lakes and flood canals . Green zone with
maintaining green space to enlarge the area of the absorption of rainwater ." Density needs to be managed
intelligently , bringing back the middle class groups who marginalised to the outskirts of Jakarta , " said Jan. The middle
class as our human capital should be empowered to live in the city. The trick , middle-class residential community is
provided in flats . Environmental flats fitted green zone and blue zone . He took the example, one area of West Jakarta
are always flooded in every rainy season. He selected the location should be the lowest part to be transformed into a
big lake . All around built flats for middle income and upper middle income people. Green open space is also
optimized. If the total area of 700 acres of land , 300 acres designated for residential flats. 200 hectares are allocated
for the blue zone ( water ) and 200 acres for the green zone (forest, bush ).
• Amid optimism the city hopes to build a Disaster-Resilient Cities 2030, the challenge is how to transform people’s
mindset. There are three wrong perceptions. First, what is called the abundant syndrome .This syndrome emphasizes
the notion that there is always an abundant space. Jakarta continues to grow out of control. Second , indifferent to the
risk and not anticipative . Jan exemplifies, the land use change of Pantai Indah Kapok ( PIK ) on the coast of Jakarta into
settlements built by ignoring the surrounding environment. Third , the boiled frog syndrome . Boiling a frog with slowly
increasing temperatures will still make the frog feels comfortable. In fact , the comfort is heading to a threat of
extinction . "If a frog is put in hot water at a sudden, he will jump out and survive , " said Jan. According to him , there
are a sudden and slow going disasters . Sudden disasters , among others , are earthquakes , tsunamis , and volcanoes
eruption. Slow going disaster is what is going on now in Jakarta." Gradual disaster is much more dangerous than a
sudden disaster . With a gradual disaster, when it arrives at its peak, it will bring all the development results eturns to
zero , " said Jan.
• i3URI Team won the Green Metropolis Jakarta 2050
Competition (Nov 23rd, 2013).
– I3URI Team, led by Prof. Jan Sopaheluwakan, won a the Competition of
Green Metropolis Jakarta 2050 organised by the Ministry of Public Eorks
and the Provincial Government of Jakarta .Capital City. Their concept
entitled The adaptive, competitive, civilized and resilient Jakarta 2050
won the prize as the Best Finalist among around 90 participants from all
over the country and some from overseas. Their concept, along with the
concept of other winners who are considered to be complementary by the
organizers, will be accommodated by the government to improve the
Spatial Planning Law.

• Advancing urban resilience in the face of climate
change, RSIS-NTU, 22-23 April, 2013
– Prof. Jan Sopaheluwakan, founder of i3URI, attended the
Expert Working Group Meeting organized by the Rajaratnam
School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore, He outlined his view on entitled Jakarta
2050: The stage for an adaptive and resilient city. Complete
report can be obtained at http://www.rsis.edu.sg/nts/html-
newsletter/report/pdf/RSIS_Urban%20Resilience%20Report_1
20813.pdf
• Blue-Green development concept to totally solve the
flood problem in Jakarta
– Prof. Jan Sopaheluwakan, founder of i3URI, explained his vision
on how Jakarta can be totally flood proof and resilient by
implementing the so-called Blue-Green Development. Further
elaboration can be found in Majalah Konstruksi, Edisi 50,
Februari 2013.

• World Delta Summit 2011: pioneering the way towards
urban resilience
– In November 21 – 23, 2011, the first World Delta Summit was
organized by the Jakarta Provincial Government and the
Coordinating Ministry of People’s Welfare. The theme of this
Summit was “The Pulse of Deltas and the Fate of Our
Civilization”, attended by more than 800 participants
representing 29 countries. During this Summit, two major
mainstream of development in rural and urban deltas. More
information can be found in the internet, including among
others http://www.delta-alliance.org/wings/indonesia-wing
• Green Cities on MNC TV, e-buzz, April 4th, 2012
– A fragment of TV Talk Show on Green City was broadcasted on MNC
TV, featuring Prof. Jan Sopaheluwakan on how Green City and Green
Society are organically and functionally interelated. Green City does
not necessarily be merely looking green. Masdar City in UAE is an
example of how a green city can be developed in the middle of a
desert.

• The Indonesia International Institute for Urban
Resilience and Infrastructure (i3URI) is a unique
research based educational and training
institution, founded to address the ever complex
and intertwined urban and sustainable
infrastructure issues. It is supported by a vast
national and international network of leading
research institutes and sectorial ministries, top
universities and reputable world class private
sectors, and green financial and investment
enterprises.

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• Today, though the global community is experiencing these shocks and disruptions on a near weekly
basis. These can happen in any cities in the west or east, regardless of their economic and social
advancement. All from different regions, with different demographics, geographic terrains and
political systems. These shocks, like bombings, protests, earthquake, financial ruin, unprecedented
flooding, devastating wildfires may have caused major disruption. More importantly, we can not
predict when or where the next shock will hit. But we know for sure that those shocks will come —
and that they will only continue to increase in their frequency, scale, and impact.
• Three reasons are clearly drive these shocks: Urbanization, Globalization, Climate Change. There
are ample evidence that most of this endencies will be in the developing world, where already
overcrowded slums will nearly double in population to 2 billion, putting strains on already fragile
ecosystems and hindering the ability of these areas to respond to shocks and recover from them.
• Urbanization in Indonesia, as is the case with Asia-Pacific region, has been urbanizing tremendously
following the country’s rapid development in 1970s. Growth has been spectacular, especially over
the past two decades, enabling the Asia-Pacific region to contribute as much as 30 per cent of
global economic output in 2008. Urban areas have acted as the engines of economic growth and
prosperity in most countries. Indonesia has been facing high urbanization rate driven by rural-urban
migration. In 1950, 15% of Indonesia’s population lived in urban areas. In 1990, 40 years later, this
number is doubled to 30%. Indonesia took only another 20 years to increase the urban population
to 44% as reported in 2010. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) reported that the average
population density of Jakarta, the capital, had reached more than 14,400 people per square
kilometer. Jakarta is now populated by 12 million people, far outnumbered the BPS estimate which
predicted that Jakarta’s population will reach 11 million people in 2020.

• Urbanisation, demographic explosion and subtropic buildings in the
tropics have created an energy intensive and high carbon civilization. Poor
mass rapid transportation and the fast urban sprawl growth have
aggravated these higher carbon emission.
• The rising number and roles of the middle class should be taken as a
golden opportunity to create productive, non consumptive and nature
conscious citizens. However, in most cities in the world, we see that this
productive middle class is marginalized from town and live some tens of
km away, leaving the ever more increasing tension between the higher
income and the lowermost income groups of people who live inside the
cities.
• The very productive, highly diverse but fragile tropical and maritime
geographic condition of Indonesia and other parts of world tropical belt
are now under jeopardy, and these need an international special
attention to attain their resiliency
• The strong need to have a decentralization and demagnetization of Java
to otherwise becomes an urbanized island, and simultaneously create
another growth center outside of Java.
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• Turning liabilities into asset
– Vulnerable and high risk areas such as storm surge related flood prone quarters, tectonic fault zone for
earthquake hazards, continuously subsided and spring tide inundated coastal areas, or municipal waste
disposal areas, all are areas which are avoided by people for their residence and home base for their
business activities. People who live there are normally forced to take that option because of their financial
inability or other non technical considerations. With science based, innovative and breakthrough concepts,
these abandoned areas can be transformed into new green and sustainable living quarter with much higher
values.
• Inclusive, respect the diversity and global compliance
– Being green and adopting green technologies with rigid and strict compliance can create some adverse
impacts, such as some people can afford to buy it, ignorance of local diversity and values, the inability to
absorb and adopt the presence of preexisting practices and values to be otherwise competitive in the new
market mechanism. We will not discard these diversities and rich indigenous values to be incorporated into
our strategic planning and future competitive and sustainable pathways.
• Synthesizing
– Synthesizing the multitude of advanced and interdisciplinary research carried out by specialised and
dedicated group of highly selected researchers is key feature of i3URI. This allows the more accurate and
comprehensive nature of the strategic and multilevel solutions offered by i3URI based on the proper and the
most modern understanding dynamism between the earth systems and the social – human behaviour. The
omnipresent and global impacts of the climate change and global warming, for example, are examined at all
levels, from regional down to submicroscopic scales.
• International Networking
– Local problems of national interest may often have global significance. Many todays problems require out of
the box thinking and out of the border collaboration. Science and scientists, with their cosmopolitan nature
and common languages they share, are becoming trancendental and this require international networking
and collaboration. Research collaboration in addressing the human and environment securities needs an
open ended and mutually reforcing network. ICIAR is aimed at becoming one of the global hubs in the
knowledge centers of excellence.
• Flexibility
– The first four features of i3URI need this flexibility principle to be adopted. Flexibility in resource sharing,
mission oriented tasks fulfilment and knowledge workers mobility are central in this flexibility principle.

• To enlighten, empower and enable people and
the society to live in harmony and sustainably
with nature
• To create the new global innovative
generation, special attention to the middle
class
• To bring the city, the society, the habitat and
the surrounding hinterland resilient against
natural and human driven shocks
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1. Research and studies on the development of
and retrofitting urban areas towards the
tropical green and resilient urban areas and
the sustainable infrastructures
2. Total solution through sustainable and
inclusive social – economic – technological –
environmental risk proof approach
3. Enlighten the people and enable urban
green governance towards resiliency
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Talent management and
best brain cultivation
•Interdisciplinary and high impact
research
•High quality and international
standard training and education
(undergraduate and graduate)
•Tailor made training on green and
resilient urban and infrastructure
management
Strategic solution
and insight
•Turning liabilities into assets
•Green and socially
responsible solution
•Green technology
assessment and
implementation
Public awareness
and advocacy
•Public benefit oriented
advocacy
•Public enlightenment on
green and resilient urban
and infrastructure

• Urban disasters and risk reduction
• Blue green urban retrofit and replanning
– Urban disasters, ecosystem and innovative (urban planning)
solution
• Transit oriented development
• City eco re-landscaping
• Urban (blue and green) ecosystem and habitat
• Urban critical infrastructures
– Sustainable energy
– Water security
– Urban farming and food resilience
– Sustainable, modern, low cost transportation vehicles and
system
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• Urban – hinterland dynamic interaction
– Biogeophysical
– Social – economy
– Environment and climate change
• Urban design and engineering
– Green building design
– Green materials
• Urban governance, geostrategy and geoeconomy
• Urban conflicts
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• Urban Ecology and habitat
– Marine and aquatic ecosystem
– Terrestrial and atmospheric ecosystem
• Spatial planning and ecosystem services
• Urban behaviour, risks and conflict
management
• Urban design and engineering
• Urban governance, global geoeconomy and
geostrategy
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Blue Green Regional Assessment, Master
Planning and Blue Green Technology
Implementation
Immediate and short future
• National trainings on climate and
resilient plans to Indonesian Green
Cities
• Green Legion Residence (Semarang)
• Green Port City in North Sumatra
• Bamboo based super construction
materials, fiber, and high-end products
• Large scale sustainable ecotourism in
West Nusa Tenggara
• Small – medium sized city Eco-Districts
• Flood proof River Side City in future oil
city in East Java
Medium – long future
• Strategic envisioning and Master
Planning of retrofitted North Jakarta
Integrated Resilient Waterfront City
• Transit Oriented Development in
South Sulawesi
• Padang disaster resilient city
• Southeast Sulawesi Bayfront City
• Low carbon East Java urban transit
system
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1. Innovation, innovative thinking and trans border breakthrough
– Wide range and vast network nationally and internationally to central and local government
agencies, well known domestic and international universities and institute of technologies,
world class and global private sectors of infrastructure and property industries, financial and
investment companies, and civil societies
2. Research
– High end and wide range of impact researches are promoted in i3URI
3. Education and training
– Educating the young minds and talent to both disciplinary and technical mastery as well as
global and triple helix perspective
– Tailor made and off-the-shelf training modules
4. Services
– One stop shopping, from research, education and training, studies, master planning, project
development and creative and green finance and investment
– End to end expertise, from design until financing the projects
5. Global impact
– “Local” innovative projects with global impact
6. Public benefit
– Public advocacy and enlightenment

Advancing a sustainable urban innovation
Board of Trustees
•Dury Abdurahman, Co-Chairman Assesment &
Research Indonesia European Union
Development Co-operation, Brussels,
Belgium.
•David Darmawan, CEO, PT Socentix
•Torsten Jungner, Chairman, Eco region
International
Board of Governors
•Dr. Asep Karsidi – Chairman National
Geospatial Agency
•Dr. Idwan Suhardi – Senior Advisor to the
Minister of Research and Technology
•Dr. Jatna Supriatna – University of Indonesia
•Dr. Dadang Rukmana – Director City Planning,
Min. Public Work
•Dr. Endra S. Atmawidjaya, Directorate City
Planning, Min. Public Works
•Ir. Eddi Santosa – Dex Transit
Board of Management
•President
•Prof. Dr. Jan Sopaheluwakan
•General Secretary
•Drs. Adik Bantarso, MBA
•Programme Directors
•Ir. I. P. Suryawan, MBA – Urban Transit System
•Prof. Dr. Yohannes Purwanto – Urban Ecology
•Prof. Dr. Gadis Sri Haryani – Urban Water and
Aquafarming
•Prof. Dr. Aris Marfai – Urban Disaster and Risk
Reduction
•Dr. Harkunti P. Rahayu – Urban Disaster and
Spatial Planning
•Dr. Fabrice Renaud – Vulnerability and Ecosytem
Services
•Dr. Haifa Wahyu – Urban Energy
•Dr. Achiar Oemry – Green Technology
•Prof. Dr. L.B. Kardono – Urban Food and Health
•Dr. Yekti Maunati – Urban Conflicts
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