Tommy Firman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1641018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tommy Firman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tommy |
| FAMILY NAME | Firman |
| SIGNATURE | FIRMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bandung Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9708-0902 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 374 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Polarised or Depolarised Urbanisation: Cities and Growth Centres Development in Indonesia
The advocate planner in regional splits: Social network analysis approach
The discourse on advocacy planning involving actors has not explicitly addressed the question of who the actor advocate planner is and how an actor can become an advocate planner. This paper attempts to exploring the actor advocate planner in the context of Regional Splits as, employing social network analysis as a research tool. This research employs an exploratory, mixed-methods approach, predominantly qualitative in nature. The initial phase e…
A sustainability assessment of decentralized water supply systems in Bandung City, Indonesia
Territorial Politics in Cross-Border Local Development Strategies in the Krayan – Ba’Kelalan Region at the Indonesia – Malaysia Border
Dynamics of uncertainty and complexity shape cross-border local development. The ethnic proximity of communities in the highlands of Kalimantan creates fluid and cross-border cultural empathy in socio-cultural and economic interactions without a formal framework of cross-border cooperation. Indonesian border development policies have shifted socio-cultural relations, triggering socio-economic inequalities and conflicts of interest that impact cro…
From Metropolitanization to Megaregionalization: Intentionality in the Urban Restructuring of Java’s North Coast, Indonesia
This paper examines the intentionality behind the emergence of megaregion in Indonesia’s reinvented developmentalist state tradition. Illustrated by the case of Java, this paper explores the role of regional planning in facilitating megaregion emergence. It reveals that sectoral and ad hoc national planning policies, although not intentionally aimed to guide spatial development, implicitly promote the emergence of this megaregion. This is particu…
Welcoming two decades of decentralization in Indonesia: A regional development perspective
Since the start of the reform in the late 1990s, Indonesia has implemented an ambitious decentralization policy. One of its aims is to foster regional development from below by giving subnational governments a greater discretion in determining programmes that are more aspirational to the interests of the community and to local and regional development objectives. The decentralized government system has been implemented for almost two decades, yet…
Water governance in decentralising urban Indonesia
Under new democratic regimes in the countries of the Global South, governance innovation is often found at the regional level. This article, using the concept of institutional capacity, shows that powerful efforts affecting regional water resource coordination emerge locally. The article analyses fresh water cooperation in the urban region of Cirebon, Indonesia. It is shown that the city and its surrounding regions in decentralising Indonesia sho…
Low‐tech industry, regional innovation system and inter‐actor collaboration in Indonesia: The case of the Pekalongan batik industry
A focus on high‐tech industries has neglected the potential of low‐tech industries in regional economic policy. This paper critically assesses the application of the concept of the regional innovation system (RIS) by exploring the processes through which government policy and inter‐actor collaboration facilitate low‐tech industrial growth and development. In doing so, we conduct a qualitative case study on the batik industry in Pekalongan, the la…
The urbanisation of Java, 2000–2010: Towards ‘the island of mega-urban regions’
The mega-urbanisation process in Java is reflected in the spatial patterns of urban population growth between 2000 and 2010, although there has been a small deceleration in the rate of growth recently. This process is also clearly indicated in the significant increase in the number of urban localities, which reflects in situ urbanisation and rural–urban transformation in Java. Most districts and cities located adjacent to large cities experienced…
Leadership and collaborative planning: The case of Surakarta, Indonesia
This article examines the extent to which leadership factors contribute to the success of collaborative planning processes. By examining the best practice in urban management in decentralizing Indonesia, we found that leadership encouraged a trustworthy and effective consensus building between the local government and the communities. The local leaders grasped socio-cultural contexts of the city to formulate communication strategies in a way that…
Peri-urban transformation in the Jakarta metropolitan area
Inter-local-government partnership for urban management in decentralizing Indonesia: From below or above? Kartamantul (Greater Yogyakarta) and Jabodetabek (Greater Jakarta) compared
Under the new decentralization policy, local governments in Indonesia tend to be inward-looking in orientation. Many local governments have exploited the local resources even more intensively, and they are not concerned with the socio-economic conditions of the larger region of which they are part. Within the context of metropolitan areas, there has been almost no effective cooperation among the bordering districts and municipalities to promote t…
Territorial Splits ( Pemekaran Daerah ) in Decentralising Indonesia, 2000–2012: Local Development Drivers or Hindrance
Not many countries have experienced as fast a growth in the number of local governments as has present day Indonesia. This study examines how territorial splits under new decentralisation policy have effected local development. The paper also critically discusses what needs to change and improve in decentralisation policy to encourage local development. Territorial splits have reinforced spatial fragmentation and ‘local selfishness’, hindering ra…
Cultural Cooperation, Institution Building and Metropolitan Governance in Decentralizing I ndonesia
The institutional turn in metropolitan governance has been influenced to a considerable degree by a rational choice approach, which views metropolitan governance as essentially created by local actors to reduce the transaction costs of inter‐jurisdictional public‐service provision. Another influential theoretical route follows a historical approach, which emphasizes the role of the state structure in producing formal institutions to enable govern…
Industrial Land Development and Manufacturing Deconcentration in Greater Jakarta
Industrial land development has become a key feature of urbanization in Greater Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Southeast Asia. Following Suharto's market-oriented policy measures in the late 1980s, private developers have dominated the land development projects in Greater Jakarta. The article investigates the extent to which these private industrial centers have effectively reduced the domination of Jakarta in shaping the entir…
Beyond property: Industrial estates and post-suburban transformation in Jakarta Metropolitan Region
Potential climate-change related vulnerabilities in Jakarta: Challenges and current status
Multi local-government under Indonesia’s decentralization reform: The case of Kartamantul (The Greater Yogyakarta)
The continuity and change in mega-urbanization in Indonesia: A survey of Jakarta–Bandung Region (JBR) development
Demographic and spatial patterns of Indonesia's recent urbanisation
An Erratum has been published for this article in Population, Space and Place 10(6)2004, 421–434. This study examines urbanisation patterns in Indonesia, using data from the National Population Census 2000. Urbanisation in Indonesia is still characterised by the high concentration of urban population in a few large cities, notably Jakarta Metropolitan Area (Jabotabek), which indicates an interurban disparity between Jabotabek and other cities, an…
Major issues in Indonesia's urban land development
New town development in Jakarta Metropolitan Region: A perspective of spatial segregation
The spatial pattern of population growth in Java, 1990–2000: Continuity and change in extended metropolitan region formation
This study addresses two questions. First, are there any changes in the spatial patterns of city population growth in Java over the period 1990–2000 compared with the period 1980–90? Second, to what extent do the changes, if any, reflect the recent formation of extended metropolitan regions? The main features of extended metropolitan region formation in Java are a slowing down of population growth in the core, and the expansion of peripheral area…
Potential impacts of Indonesia's fiscal decentralisation reform on urban and regional development: Towards a new pattern of spatial disparity
Indonesia has now entered a new phase of decentralisation. Two basic elements in the new policy are wider regional autonomy and fiscal decentralisation. The latter is essentially expenditure-based in character, rather than revenue-based, within which a different approach to intergovernmental transfers between local and central government is emerging. The new general allocation fund and revenue-sharing system may have reduced vertical fiscal dispa…
Urban development in Indonesia, 1990–2001: From the boom to the early reform era through the crisis
New town development in Jakarta Metropolitan Region: A perspective of spatial segregation
Land Conversion and Urban Development in the Northern Region of West Java, Indonesia
This article examines the impacts of economic development on land conversion in the Northern Region of West Java (NRWJ) and discusses their implications for urban and regional development. The recent development of NRWJ has been triggered largely by domestic and foreign investment in the region, which has led to a tremendous increase in demand for land. Subsequently, prime agricultural land has been subdivided and converted into industrial estate…
Rural to urban land conversion in Indonesia during boom and bust periods
Residential land development in Jabotabek, Indonesia: Triggering economic crisis
The continuity and change in mega-urbanization in Indonesia: A survey of Jakarta–Bandung Region (JBR) development
Beyond property: Industrial estates and post-suburban transformation in Jakarta Metropolitan Region
The restructuring of Jakarta Metropolitan Area
Peri-urban transformation in the Jakarta metropolitan area
Industrial Land Development and Manufacturing Deconcentration in Greater Jakarta
Industrial land development has become a key feature of urbanization in Greater Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Southeast Asia. Following Suharto's market-oriented policy measures in the late 1980s, private developers have dominated the land development projects in Greater Jakarta. The article investigates the extent to which these private industrial centers have effectively reduced the domination of Jakarta in shaping the entir…
From `global city’ to `city of crisis: Jakarta metropolitan region under economic turmoil
Territorial Splits ( Pemekaran Daerah ) in Decentralising Indonesia, 2000–2012: Local Development Drivers or Hindrance
Not many countries have experienced as fast a growth in the number of local governments as has present day Indonesia. This study examines how territorial splits under new decentralisation policy have effected local development. The paper also critically discusses what needs to change and improve in decentralisation policy to encourage local development. Territorial splits have reinforced spatial fragmentation and ‘local selfishness’, hindering ra…
Demographic and spatial patterns of Indonesia's recent urbanisation
An Erratum has been published for this article in Population, Space and Place 10(6)2004, 421–434. This study examines urbanisation patterns in Indonesia, using data from the National Population Census 2000. Urbanisation in Indonesia is still characterised by the high concentration of urban population in a few large cities, notably Jakarta Metropolitan Area (Jabotabek), which indicates an interurban disparity between Jabotabek and other cities, an…
Urban development in Indonesia, 1990–2001: From the boom to the early reform era through the crisis
Welcoming two decades of decentralization in Indonesia: A regional development perspective
Since the start of the reform in the late 1990s, Indonesia has implemented an ambitious decentralization policy. One of its aims is to foster regional development from below by giving subnational governments a greater discretion in determining programmes that are more aspirational to the interests of the community and to local and regional development objectives. The decentralized government system has been implemented for almost two decades, yet…
Multi local-government under Indonesia’s decentralization reform: The case of Kartamantul (The Greater Yogyakarta)
The challenges to sustainable development in Jakarta metropolitan region
Potential climate-change related vulnerabilities in Jakarta: Challenges and current status
From Metropolitanization to Megaregionalization: Intentionality in the Urban Restructuring of Java’s North Coast, Indonesia
This paper examines the intentionality behind the emergence of megaregion in Indonesia’s reinvented developmentalist state tradition. Illustrated by the case of Java, this paper explores the role of regional planning in facilitating megaregion emergence. It reveals that sectoral and ad hoc national planning policies, although not intentionally aimed to guide spatial development, implicitly promote the emergence of this megaregion. This is particu…
Potential impacts of Indonesia's fiscal decentralisation reform on urban and regional development: Towards a new pattern of spatial disparity
Indonesia has now entered a new phase of decentralisation. Two basic elements in the new policy are wider regional autonomy and fiscal decentralisation. The latter is essentially expenditure-based in character, rather than revenue-based, within which a different approach to intergovernmental transfers between local and central government is emerging. The new general allocation fund and revenue-sharing system may have reduced vertical fiscal dispa…
Indonesian cities under the “Krismon”
The urbanisation of Java, 2000–2010: Towards ‘the island of mega-urban regions’
The mega-urbanisation process in Java is reflected in the spatial patterns of urban population growth between 2000 and 2010, although there has been a small deceleration in the rate of growth recently. This process is also clearly indicated in the significant increase in the number of urban localities, which reflects in situ urbanisation and rural–urban transformation in Java. Most districts and cities located adjacent to large cities experienced…
Labour Allocation, Mobility, and Remittances in Rural Households: A Case from Central Java, Indonesia
This study examines the links between labour allocation, mobility, and remittances in rural households in Indonesia, using household data of Slendro rural communities in Central Java. The finding reveals that rural households are becoming increasingly dependent on urban economic activities as a source of livelihood, and that there is a significant need for them to be flexible in the use and allocation of their collective labour. In sum, rural-urb…
Inter-local-government partnership for urban management in decentralizing Indonesia: From below or above? Kartamantul (Greater Yogyakarta) and Jabodetabek (Greater Jakarta) compared
Under the new decentralization policy, local governments in Indonesia tend to be inward-looking in orientation. Many local governments have exploited the local resources even more intensively, and they are not concerned with the socio-economic conditions of the larger region of which they are part. Within the context of metropolitan areas, there has been almost no effective cooperation among the bordering districts and municipalities to promote t…
The Spatial Pattern of Urban Population Growth in Java, 1980–1990
"The emergence of fast-growing peri-urban regions and corridors joining large cities has been a feature of rapid urban growth in Asia in the last fifty years. These areas have been characterised by a mixture of urban and rural activities and by strong rural-urban linkages. This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 Indonesian Censuses to measure the extent to which this process has been occurring on Java in the intervening decade. It calculates …
Leadership and collaborative planning: The case of Surakarta, Indonesia
This article examines the extent to which leadership factors contribute to the success of collaborative planning processes. By examining the best practice in urban management in decentralizing Indonesia, we found that leadership encouraged a trustworthy and effective consensus building between the local government and the communities. The local leaders grasped socio-cultural contexts of the city to formulate communication strategies in a way that…
Rural Households, Labor Flows and the Housing Construction Industry in Bandung, Indonesia
Population Mobility in Java: In Search of Theoretical Explanation
Given the current status of studies of population mobility in Java, this paper will attempt to construct a framework of analysis that can capture the interaction between macro socio-economic process and population mobility in Java. This paper thus first examines the theoretical approaches to population mobility in general. Second, it critically reviews the history of the movement of people in Java. A considerable literature on Indonesia makes it …
The Spatial Pattern of Urban Population Growth in Java, 1980–1990
"The emergence of fast-growing peri-urban regions and corridors joining large cities has been a feature of rapid urban growth in Asia in the last fifty years. These areas have been characterised by a mixture of urban and rural activities and by strong rural-urban linkages. This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 Indonesian Censuses to measure the extent to which this process has been occurring on Java in the intervening decade. It calculates …
The challenges to sustainable development in Jakarta metropolitan region
Labour Allocation, Mobility, and Remittances in Rural Households: A Case from Central Java, Indonesia
This study examines the links between labour allocation, mobility, and remittances in rural households in Indonesia, using household data of Slendro rural communities in Central Java. The finding reveals that rural households are becoming increasingly dependent on urban economic activities as a source of livelihood, and that there is a significant need for them to be flexible in the use and allocation of their collective labour. In sum, rural-urb…
Problems of Small Town Development in a Rapidly Growing Metropolitan Economy: The Case of Soreang, West Java
This paper examines the socio-economic and physical development of the small town of Soreang in the Bandung Metropolitan Area (BMA). It also analyses the effectiveness of the counter-magnet policy in dealing with the problem of spatial disparity. Both Bandung city and Soreang town are being physically integrated and the rapidly growing BandungSoreang corridor is increasingly utilized for socio-economic activities in the BMA
Land Conversion and Urban Development in the Northern Region of West Java, Indonesia
This article examines the impacts of economic development on land conversion in the Northern Region of West Java (NRWJ) and discusses their implications for urban and regional development. The recent development of NRWJ has been triggered largely by domestic and foreign investment in the region, which has led to a tremendous increase in demand for land. Subsequently, prime agricultural land has been subdivided and converted into industrial estate…
The restructuring of Jakarta Metropolitan Area
Metropolitan expansion and the growth of female migration to Jakarta
This paper examines patterns of migration in Jakarta City based on the 1995 Intercensal Survey (SUPAS) Data. It shows the emergence of female in‐migration in response to the shift of economic activities in the city from manufacturing industries to services and finance sectors. The study also documents migration from Jakarta, the core of Jabotabek (Jakarta Metropolitan Area) to the fringe areas, which reflects the physical as well as socio‐economi…
Indonesian cities under the “Krismon”
Indonesian Timber-based Industry at a Crossroad: Efficiency, international Market and Local Development
This article examines the development of timber-based industry in Indonesia and its constraints. It also discusses its prospect as one of the mainstay of Indonesia's non-oil exports in the near future. The main constraints faced by the timber-based industry in Indonesia result from inefficiencies, decreasing supply of raw materials and the changes in the international demand. The industry has weak linkages with the local economies in which the ti…
From `global city’ to `city of crisis: Jakarta metropolitan region under economic turmoil
Labour Market Adjustment in the Time of Krismon: Changes in Employment Structure in Indonesia, 1997–98
This study examines the labour market outcomes of the recent economic crisis ( krismon ) in Indonesia, focusing on the change of employment structure between 1997 and 1998. Indonesia's labour market has been extremely flexible in adjusting itself during the crisis. Labour has moved from “modern” economic sectors to agricultural and “informal” sectors, reflecting the strategy of poor households to cope with the hardship. While the impact of the ec…
Rural to urban land conversion in Indonesia during boom and bust periods
The Wood Processing Industry and Local Development in North Maluku, Indonesia
The resource‐based but technologically advanced wood processing industry has as yet triggered little diversification and transformation of the traditional local economy of North Maluku, Indonesia. Pressures from the world market and a scarcity of raw materials are causing uncertainty for the future of the wood processing industry, which is likely to inhibit further local development
Urban development in Indonesia, 1990–2001: From the boom to the early reform era through the crisis
Residential land development in Jabotabek, Indonesia: Triggering economic crisis
The spatial pattern of population growth in Java, 1990–2000: Continuity and change in extended metropolitan region formation
This study addresses two questions. First, are there any changes in the spatial patterns of city population growth in Java over the period 1990–2000 compared with the period 1980–90? Second, to what extent do the changes, if any, reflect the recent formation of extended metropolitan regions? The main features of extended metropolitan region formation in Java are a slowing down of population growth in the core, and the expansion of peripheral area…
Potential impacts of Indonesia's fiscal decentralisation reform on urban and regional development: Towards a new pattern of spatial disparity
Indonesia has now entered a new phase of decentralisation. Two basic elements in the new policy are wider regional autonomy and fiscal decentralisation. The latter is essentially expenditure-based in character, rather than revenue-based, within which a different approach to intergovernmental transfers between local and central government is emerging. The new general allocation fund and revenue-sharing system may have reduced vertical fiscal dispa…
Demographic and spatial patterns of Indonesia's recent urbanisation
An Erratum has been published for this article in Population, Space and Place 10(6)2004, 421–434. This study examines urbanisation patterns in Indonesia, using data from the National Population Census 2000. Urbanisation in Indonesia is still characterised by the high concentration of urban population in a few large cities, notably Jakarta Metropolitan Area (Jabotabek), which indicates an interurban disparity between Jabotabek and other cities, an…
Major issues in Indonesia's urban land development
New town development in Jakarta Metropolitan Region: A perspective of spatial segregation
The continuity and change in mega-urbanization in Indonesia: A survey of Jakarta–Bandung Region (JBR) development
Multi local-government under Indonesia’s decentralization reform: The case of Kartamantul (The Greater Yogyakarta)
Potential climate-change related vulnerabilities in Jakarta: Challenges and current status
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