Greater Jakarta area is well-known worldwide as one of the most populous delta city in Indonesia. The area is actually a home for more than 12 million inhabitants. This number is gradually increasing each year, makes the area becomes denser. The area is also constantly facing flood issues during the rainy season. This situation is worsened with global phenomenon of climate change and rapid urbanisation that give tremendous impacts to the city: land subsidence, sea-level rising, and environmental degradation. At beginning of 2020, the area welcomed new year 2020 with a big flood event impacted almost all of districts in Greater Jakarta area, put the economic activities on hold for couple weeks.

Departing from this issue, the initiators, IDN Liveable Cities and TYK Research and Action Consulting, have an initiative to arrange a discussion that brings together multidisciplinary experts from the Netherlands and Indonesia to find integrated and comprehensive solutions for this issue. The discussion was organised on February 27, 2020 in Embassy of Republic of Indonesia in the Netherlands, located in The Hague. The discussion is aimed to have knowledge exchange between the Dutch and Indonesian experts and stakeholders in dealing with flood issues. Besides that, it serves its function as a discussion platform to formulate solutions in the format of a policy brief to solve flood issues in Greater Jakarta area with a consideration of global phenomenon of climate change.

The discussion was divided into three sections. Each section has different topics that are interrelated into each other’s. Session 1 discussed evolution of Jakarta flood policies, climate change and urban water management. Meanwhile session 2 talked about flood mitigation approaches for Jakarta. Lastly, session 3 described regional development in Jakarta’s delta in times of climate change. At the end of the discussion, ten recommendations were resulted and wrote as a policy brief which were presented during Dutch Royal State Visit and Trade Mission to Indonesia in beginning of March 2020, in which was attended by King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima accompanied by several delegations, including IDN Liveable Cities, represented by Wiwi Tjiook.

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