Open Access20 years Collaborative Governance and Action Research: Evaluation Process of the Regional Spatial Planning of Mappi Regency, Papua
Author(s) -
Doddy Aditya Iskandar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jurnal pengabdian kepada masyarakat (indonesian journal of community engagement)/jurnal pengabdian kepada masyarakat (indonesian journal of community engagement)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-5883
pISSN - 2460-9447
DOI - 10.22146/jpkm.46412
Subject(s) - plan (archaeology) , reflexivity , politics , corporate governance , ideal (ethics) , process (computing) , power (physics) , action (physics) , spatial planning , public administration , political science , comprehensive planning , public relations , process management , sociology , environmental planning , management , business , computer science , geography , economics , social science , law , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , operating system
This paper evaluates planners’ capacity to influence the plan-making process where it often involves actors and institutions with various interests. Relegating planners’ roles by providing mere technical inputs to those who seek advice would not alleviate spatial imbalance and unequal power structure embedded in the community. Planners should be reflexive and accountable, as it will lead them to aspire to a contested ideal rather than to simply optimize the current system in which they are in. Drawing from our experience in reviewing regional spatial plan of Kabupaten Mappi, providing an alternative approach to current development strategies would help balancing the local community’s power structure. Planners should master the politics of planning as it would help them influence the decision-making process.