Abstract
International ports serve and expedited interaction between nations. Building a modern international port city and advanced society dwellers within it heavily depends on socially sustainable development, and on the level of social resilience of its residents. The rapid development of an international port city cannot disregard many foreign interests in the City’s decision making; therefore, the lack of a culture of nationalism is investigated. This paper tries to portray that building social resilience is hand-in-hand with building a culture of nationalism, and it exists in the international port city setting such as the City of Batam. A mixed method analysis is used to get determinants of social resilience and nationalism. It is used a systematic review of peer-reviewed academic journal articles published between 2013 and 2018 to scope and synthesize assessment criteria; then it is compared with the quality of socio-cultural life condition from the survey and in-depth interview. The analysis results show a correlation between economic and political powers and building the local identity and culture of nationalism. In the context of being local, being national, and being "other" in the regional area, this study also shows that building a culture of nationalism is related to socially sustainable development, and nationalism is not correlated with the place of living but to the efforts of citizen participation in sustainable development. Therefore, building social resilience is also building a culture of nationalism, and it makes an international port city distinctly unique despite its internationalism characteristic.
Highlights
The City of Batam in Indonesia has been designed from its preliminary development in the 1970s to be a modern international port city (Badan Pengusahaan Batam, 2014)
We get the determinants of building social resilience and the determinants of building a culture of nationalism that related to sustainable social development
Increased social resilience is due to social transformation and efforts to make a better transformation, social resilience adoption and adaption, as well as social capacity building through many aspects of development efforts as well as interaction with many nations
Summary
The City of Batam in Indonesia has been designed from its preliminary development in the 1970s to be a modern international port city (Badan Pengusahaan Batam, 2014). Many foreign investors who have the economic power in the city do give internationalism color to the city and lead to the city’s cultural transformation This condition has enriched the multicultural condition in the City of Batam in which there is no dominant ethnic group in the city or specific culture to be followed as generally happened in other cities in Indonesia. Its border location, the condition of being the third busiest entrance gate into Indonesia, makes the interaction between nations is considered very high. Such interaction is believed directly affect the lifestyle adoption that either supplement in one hand or derogate the Indonesian culture on the other hand
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