Introduction: Suburbanization in Asia: A focus in Jakarta

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Introduction: Suburbanization in Asia: A focus in Jakarta

Introduction
Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia and the largest metropolitan area in Southeast Asia with tremendous population growth, land use change and new town and industrial estate development. The overall population of the Jakarta region grew in the 20th Century, from about 150,000 in 1900 to about 30 million in 2014. The metropolitan region of Jakarta is also called Jabodetabek, taken from the initial letters of the administrative units of Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi. The center of Jabodetabek is Jakarta, also called the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) and covers a total area of 664 square kilometers. The inner peripheries of the metropolitan region of Jakarta include four municipalities (City of Tangerang, City of South Tangerang, City of Depok, City of Bekasi), whereas the outer peripheries of Jabodetabek include the City of Bogor, Tangerang Regency and Bekasi Regency. The metropolitan region of Jakarta covers a total area of 5,897 square kilometers (Hudalah and Firman 20011).

Jakarta, or the Special Capital Region of Jakarta, has ‘provincial government level’ status. The peripheries of Jabodetabek are within the jurisdiction of two provinces. The City of Bogor, City of Depok, City of Bekasi and Bekasi Regency are within the jurisdiction of West Java Province, whereas the City of Tangerang, City of South Tangerang and Tangerang Regency are within the jurisdiction of Banten Province. The four municipalities within the inner peripheries of Jabodetabek are new municipalities founded in the 1990s and 2000s. The City of Tangerang, City of Bekasi, City of Depok and City of South Tangerang were founded in 1993, 1996, 1999 and 2008 respectively. The City of Tangerang and City of South Tangerang seceded from Tangerang Regency. Meanwhile, the City of Depok was part of Bogor Regency and the City of Bekasi seceded from Bekasi Regency.

This chapter will examine the extent to which the Jakarta region has transformed from a concentric and radial pattern urban structure to an early stage of post-suburbanization with an emerging fragmented structure of peripheral areas. The evolution of new towns and industrial estates in the peripheries of the Jakarta region will be discussed. The chapter will focus on the nature of suburban growth in the Jakarta region and the policies and plans to contain or influence patterns of the suburbanization.

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This post is one of the chapters in the book titled:

The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs

edited by:

Bernadette Hanlon and
Thomas J. Vicino. 

The book was published by the Routledge in September 2018. 
You can find the book in the Routledge link here. The chapter on Jakarta was written by Fikri Zul Fahmi, Tommy Firman and myself. 
Tommy Firman is professor of Regional Planning at the Bandung Institute of Technology and Fikri Zul Fahmi is assistant professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia.

Suburbanization in Asia: 
A focus in Jakarta

By:

1. Deden Rukmana, 
2. Fikri Zul Fahmi and 
3. Tommy Firman

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