The Governance of Recovery and the Recovery of Governance: Learning from the Spatial Planning Practice During Aceh’ Reconstruction Process, 2005-2009

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10.2991/assehr.k.220404.178How to use a DOI?

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governance; rehabilitation-reconstruction; spatial planning

Abstract

The experiences of Aceh’ recovery after the December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami provide an example for the study and practice of governance of recovery, not only in Indonesia but also in the world. Three specific aspects justify this: the scale and background of the disaster, the extra-ordinary measures taken, and the effectiveness of the measures. The challenges of the disaster were not only that the disaster had an unprecedented scale, but also it was in the middle of a three-decade long armed conflict between the central government in Jakarta and the Independent Aceh Movement (the GAM) in the province. In addition, it was also at the time when the country just recovered from deep multi-dimensional crises, and took place when the country practically had no effective legal and institutional infrastructure in place, and preparedness, to face large-scale disaster. In short, the disaster simply brought additional challenges to the many burdens the country had faced. Such challenges affected the way the recovery process was governed. The establishment of a coordinating and implementing agency with robust authorities, instead of utilizing existing government structure as previously practiced, and the appointment of a strong leadership, were determining factors. Generous supports from international communities were, therefore, a consequence of a built-trust and confidence. Moreover, with such a mandate, breakthrough was possible, such as in the village planning which overcomes the limited provision of the existing spatial planning law.Reflecting from these experiences it might not be easy for authorities in recently disaster-impacted areas in Central Sulawesi Province, for instance, to be as effective as BRR was in Aceh (and Nias). In Central Sulawesi, basic principle of rehabilitation and reconstruction, i.e. the immediate return of situation to normalcy, hardly achieved due to complex processes of multi-level decision-making.

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AU  - Erwin Fahmi
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BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2021)
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