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Governing industrial estates on Jakarta's periurban area: From shadow government to network governance
Author(s) -
Hudalah Delik
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
singapore journal of tropical geography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1467-9493
pISSN - 0129-7619
DOI - 10.1111/sjtg.12177
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , restructuring , corporate governance , decentralization , economic geography , shadow (psychology) , estate , real estate , competition (biology) , politics , government (linguistics) , urbanization , global city , economy , business , economic growth , political science , economics , geography , market economy , finance , ecology , archaeology , law , psychotherapist , biology , psychology , linguistics , philosophy
This article investigates the way in which periurban politics have mediated foreign direct investment relocations and facilitated the spatial restructuring of the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA), one of the largest and fastest‐growing megaurban regions in Asia. We conducted a series of in‐depth interviews in Cikarang, the largest, most developed industrial estate corridor in the urban periphery of JMA. We identified institutional settings, power struggles and governance mechanisms underlying the industrial estate transitions in the past three decades. We found that periurban governance in JMA has resulted in poor infrastructure connectivity and tight interactor and inter‐regional competition. As global economic turbulence and decentralization policies restrict the effectiveness of privatization strategies, network strategies are trialled to promote sustainability and inclusiveness in JMA's industrial estates and towns.