Toward climate-proofing
spatial planning
Key issues, challenges, and future agenda

Hendricus Andy Simarmata, PhD, IAP

President, Indonesian Association of urban and regional Planners (IAP)
Scientific Committee, International Society of City and Regional Planning (ISOCARP)

prepared for the 5th Spatial Planning Platform, hosted by UN Habitat, MLIT, MUD Nepal

Kathmandu, 03 February 2023
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IAP in brief
Established since 1971

33 provincial chapters with more than
2,500 members and 1,100 certifiedmembers

LOCAL HOST of THE 55th ISOCARP WORLD PLANNING CONGRESS - 2019

IAP

Professional association accredited byMinistry of Public Work, one of thelargests in ASEAN
Institutional member of ISOCARP(International Society of City and RegionalPlanners)

Established Professional Certified Body (LSP) withlicensed from BNSP and LPJK in 2021

ADVISING of THE NEW CAPITAL to PRESIDENT RI- 2021

HAS’ Climate change-related Research and Planning practices
International NetworkCities in Climate
Change Network- UN
HabitatCities at Risk
START Alumni

UNRISDTransformative
Adaptation

ISSC Fellowship Sustainable
Urbanization II Group

Penn UniHotspot Cities
NetworkConsultancy Projects

ClimateVulnerability
Assessment andAdaptation
Planning
Small Island
Group - DNPIDisasterManagement
Planat provincial
level - BNPB

Mainstrea
ming VAA
to Spatial
Planning –Mercy
Corps2010

Urban
Resilience
Assessment
atMetropolitan
level - ADB

National
Roadmap for
ClimateAction – UN
ESCAPSoutheast
Asia

GuidanceforIntegrating
CCA and
CCM into
SpatialPlanning

Munich-re, UNU-EHS
and UNFCCC Urban
Adaptation Futures

Assessing
Potential
Losses andDamages due
to projected
Climate change
Impacts – MoE
Japan

Economic
valuation inadaptation
planning –JICA (phase1)

LSIP:
Advancing
Inclusive andResilientUrbandevelopment
Targeted at
Urban Poor ADB

2020

2015

2023-2025

Research Projects

Coastal Vulnerability
Index at National andCity level (MoOF)

People-based Vulnerability
Assessment & Adaptation
Planning(Doctoral Study)

Urban Water Research
Project with Monash
University and IPB
Bogor

Epistemic Mobilities
and Governance
Environmental Risks
Jakarta-Singapore
Manila – ZMT/Artec
Bremen University

International Publication

Potential Climate Change related
vulnerabilities in Jakarta: Challenges andcurrent status, Habitat International
Journal, Volume 3, 2011 pages 32-37.
2018 Slidefabric.com All rights reserved.
Lesson ©learned• Multi-scalar perspective

Phenomenology in
Adaptation
Planning, 2017
Springer Book

• Eco-anthroposystem approach

Jac-lab:IntegratedRegional
Climate Lab
w/ DuisburgEssen
University

Assessing FloodVulnerability, Book
Chapter, for UKNA Book
Vol 3 2019 – Amsterdam
University Press• Trans-disciplinary researchBlue Urban:
GlobalTrajectories andSpeculative
Future w/ Bremen
University

The wickedness ofgoverning land
subsidence, coauthor, PLOS ONE
16(6) 2021
• Collaborative planning

Futuring”Nusantara’:
Detangling
Indonesia’sModernist
Archipelagic
Imaginaries, Ch.
15, for Stefan etParlow al. Ocean
Governance,
Springer Nature(2023)

Metropolizing Archipelagic Indonesia: Avoiding uniformity, promoting structured diversity

Organic urban and new townshipdevelopment© 2018 Slidefabric.com All rights reserved.

Spatial Planning Guidances are available at national level

Example: SSP-RUDI (Oct 2017 – Aug 2018)

Synchronizing the planning cycle with climate change scenario: An emerging integrative planning tool

Adaptation
Mitigation

Source:climatescenario.org

Source:URBACT, 2016

Climate change: minimum
30 years period

Planning Cycle:
20 years spatial planning (RTRW)

Baseline year: 2025
Projection year: 2055

25 years and 5 years ofdevelopment planning(RPJPD/RPJMD)

How we adapt to thechanging climate?
Extreme event is one part tolead to urban preparedness

Linking the Government
programs to non-state actors
initiatives
Focusing to the impacted areaand vulnerable group

Multi-Drivers:
Net zero emission
Middle-income trap
Demographic Bonus
Digital transformation
Rapid urbanization
Food security

Climate co-benefits: synergy of climate change adaptation and mitigation
Climate co-benefits is an
integrated approach forclimate change adaptationand mitigation to the jointactions that includes othersustainable development
goals in transformative,effective, and efficient way.

Source: Calgary's Climate
Program

Source: MASP, 2018

Why climate co-benefits is matterUrban Climate co-benefits: MASP, IAP and partners (ADB, ICLEI, WRI)

Self-assessment tool for
mainstreaming climate cobenefits into spatial planning
procedures

Promoting nature—based
solutions into spatial planning
practices as an entry point forclimate change co-benefits

Capacity Building on
urban climate
resilient spatialplanning for city
governments

Regulatory supports

Technical assistance

Capacity building

Sumber: ATR, 2018

Monetizing potential loss and damage (impacts of climate change) as the key performance indicators ofclimate resilient development – BAPPENAS
Temperature/rainfall

highestlowestyear

Illustration climate hazards

Monetizing climate hazards

Prioritized intervention areas and measurable actions

Increased Frequency and intensity

Economic Valuation

Planned adaptation

e.g. Extreme rainfall, extreme high tide, drought, etc.

Linking future scenario of climate hazards topotential GDP losses. Using four sectors: water,agriculture, marine, and public health.

Knowing how to reduce potential losses or damages
in the future (preventive adaptation).

Rapid and Slow on Sete.g., sea level rise, increased temperature, ocean
acidification, etc.

Source: Bappenas, 2019

Linking spatial development planning with creative financing scheme, incl. global fundEngaging private
sectors
contribution
when apply
building permits
Embracingphilanthropies
supports
Accessing global
funds: e.g.,
adaptation fund,GCF, GEF, etc.
In 2011, 40% of the total climate finance went to ‘direct’ to support mitigation (IDR 3,004 billion(USD 341 million)) and adaptation (IDR 384 billion (USD 44 million))

Source: CPI, 2014

Revisiting Urban Planning Standards: Climate resilient, net zero, and healthy cities
Urban DesignStandard
Re-arrange street
furniture:
menambahkan
fasilitas kebersihan,
cctv untuk
pengawasan
kepadatan pejalan
kaki, halte yang lebih
longgar/terbuka, dll
Re-shape the publiccafé, meeting pot,pedestrian facilities,
etc.

SpatialDensityStandards

UrbanFacilities
Standards

Providing back-up
room/floor forquarantine purpose in
the high-rise building or
dense settlement, withadequate equipment

Adding multifunctional building
at the community
level that designed
for healthemergencesituation e.g.
isolation room

Retrofitting with green
and open space
Preparing contingency
plan e.g. city quarantine
to have more effective
and efficient healthmanagement

Revisiting
healthcare systemeither in numbers,
facilities, anddistribution for
urban and ruralcommunities
Adding moresignage for public
open space

03/02/23

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Integrating environmental safeguards (EIA), spatial planning, zoning and building regulation into one digital platform
for ease of doing business and investments

Ministry of Public Works

Ministry of Environment and Forestry
Environmental
ApprovalOutput

AMDALNET

• IAP
• IAI
• IARKI

Assignment

CertifiedProfessionals

Users/ Investors/developers

con
ditiooditi
conns

Buildingpermit (BG)ns

OutputInformation
System of BG

SiteplanconnectedOutputInformation Systemof Site Plan

Siteplan proposal mustcomply to new
standards
e.g. sustainable building
Green infrastructure
Nature-based
Inclusive (diffable and elderly)
Healthy resilient

through OSS-RBA

Ministry of InvestmentdVerified by expert committee• Location verification• Public service
obligation validation• Procedural verification

Localgovernments• Asset information• Local retribution

Business permits

Business IDtenec
noc

Spatial Planning
Approvalthrough GISTARU

Ministry of Agrarian andSpatial Planning/Land
Registration Office13

From planning to controlling: Managing urban informality and sustainability performance• Defining the outcome of spatial (re)development• Demonstrating the performance of space forpeople• Establishing the criteria• Testing and calibrating the criteria at site andregional level• Creating self-assessment tool for compliancestandards and enforcement
Remarks:
Incremental vs. Comprehensive Approach
Building vs. area performance
Urban vs. settlement assessment area

Measuring urban performance based on local people needs

Will be officially launched Feb 14, 2023

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Hendricus Andy Simarmata, PhD, IAP
A certified urban planner who has 20 years of experience in research, consultancy, andadvocacy in the field of sustainable urban development. In the last ten years, he has focusedhis works to develop an intertwining concept of social and economic resilience andenvironmental sustainability for various development projects in Southeast Asian region,
mostly in Indonesia. Mr. Simarmata earned his Dr.Phil (Ph.D.) in Development Studies fromone of the leading research universities in Germany, The University of Bonn in August 2016.
Following completion of his doctoral studies, Mr. Simarmata has directed the Research Centerof Urban and Regional Studies, Universitas Indonesia (PRPW-UI) and has been working fornumerous development projects from both international organizations and Indonesian
government offices. Since November 2019, he has been elected as the President of theIndonesian Association of Urban and Regional Planners (IAP)
President of Indonesian Association of Urban and Regional Planners
Senior Research Fellow at Center for Strategic and Global Studies, Universitas Indonesia
Founder/Principal Planner of Nusantara Urban Advisory and Citieslab
Founder of HAS Consulting
Urban Reader, Thamrin School for Sustainability and Climate Change
hendricus.andy@gmail.com (email)+628119998790 (WA)
Latest publication: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5496-9

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hendricus-andy-simarmata-14188614/

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