Spatial Planning in Perspective of Good Governance (A Study on Analysis of Spatial Planning in Batu City as a Tourism City)

Retno Wulan Sekarsari,Andy Fefta Wijaya

doi:10.21776/ub.jitode.2014.002.01.02

Retno Wulan Sekarsari, Andy Fefta Wijaya

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https://doi.org/10.21776/ub.jitode.2014.002.01.02

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Abstract

Spatial planning is an effort to improve the welfare of the community and to ensure environmental sustainability by taking into account the comparative advantages in an area and minimizing the development gap by reducing slums, and poor and underdeveloped areas. Regional Spatial Planning Policy is a kind of policy product to control the level of environmental damage and the disorganized development and growth in a city or regency. The role of Batu City Government is to realize Batu City space that is safe, comfortable, productive and sustainable as a superior agropolitan city and tourism city in East Java Province. This article utilized Good Governance Perspective and System Theory to analyze the formulation of Regional Spatial Planning Policy in Batu City. This article firstly explained about tourism development, and secondly described the authority and responsibility of stakeholders in spatial planning formulation. The third part clarified good governance perspective on spatial planning in Batu City and analyzed supporting and inhibiting factors in spatial planning formulation in Batu City. The findings showed that only some actors and factors had strong influence over the formulation of Regional Spatial Planning Policy. Keywords: Good Governace, Governace Perspective, Spatial Planning, Tourism City, Batu City

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According to Larsson (2006) spatial planning is an effort to improve the welfare of the community and to ensure environmental sustainability by taking into account the comparative advantages in an area and minimizing the development gaps by reducing slums area, poor and underdeveloped areas
Based on the background above, the research questions in this thesis is how is the spatial planning in Batu City as tourism city in the perspective of Good Governance? The objective of this research is to try to answer the research question
Research Focus The focus of this “Spatial Planning in Perspective of Good Governance (A Study on Analysis of Spatial Planning in Batu City as a Tourism City)” research is: 1. Good Governance perspective on spatial planning in Batu City as tourism city Location and Site Research This research is located in Batu City

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According to Larsson (2006) spatial planning is an effort to improve the welfare of the community and to ensure environmental sustainability by taking into account the comparative advantages in an area and minimizing the development gaps by reducing slums area, poor and underdeveloped areas. Urban planning is the determination, and assurance of proportional space utilization so that the area may meet aspects of economic activities, and social environment in the city. Those three aspects are very important for the safety, prosperity, and progress of the people who live in that area. Batu City Local Regulations Number 3 Year 2004, about Spatial Planning of Batu City Year 2003–2013, Article 3 says Purpose of spatial use is to improve the society welfare and for defensive and security purposes realized through a strategy of spatial use implementation aimed to achieve quality spatial use”. The purposes of spatial planning are: 1) The implementation of environmentally spatial used; 2) The implementation of spatial used arrangement of protected areas and cultivation areas, and 3) Achieved quality of space utilization

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