Clayton Lane, CEO ITDP Global mengunjungi Indonesia pada 31 Januari – 4 Februari 2016 lalu.

Selama kunjungannya di Indonesia, Clayton mempunyai serangkaian meeting dengan pemerintahan kota dan partner lokal. Di sela kesibukannya, Clayton menyempatkan juga untuk bertemu dan berbicara dengan staff ITDP Indonesia. Di akhir kunjungannya di Jakarta, Clayton menjadi salah satu pembicara dalam sebuah diskusi terbuka berjudul “The Future of Urban Mobility” bersama figur publik sekaligus cyclist, Nugie.

1 Februari, 2016 

Meeting dengan Bappeda Medan

Pertemuan ini diselenggarakan oleh Bappeda Medan dan dihadiri oleh Dinas Perhubungan kota Medan, Dinas Pekerjaan Umum kota Medan dan biro hukum. Dalam pertemuan ini, Clayton didampingi Yoga Adiwinarto dan Faela Sufa, mensosialisasikan program IKI ITDP yang termasuk di dalamnya pengembangan transportasi publik di Medan dengan sistem BRT. Respon dari para undangan yang hadir mengenai presentasi Clayton sangat baik dimana para undangan mengapresiasi saran dan masukan dari ITDP dan merasa bahwa saran tersebut dapat diimplementasikan secara efektif di kota Medan.

2 Februari, 2016 

Meeting dengan Biro Perekonomian Jakarta

Biro Perekonomian Jakarta membawahi beberapa bidang termasuk Dinas Perhubungan. Dalam pertemuan ini, Clayton bertemu dengan Adi Ariantara, kepala Biro Perekonomian Jakarta. Pertemuan ini sangat penting untuk memastikan kelanjutan kolaborasi antara ITDP dan pemerintah DKI Jakarta. Clayton bersama Yoga dan Faela menegaskan kembali kolaborasi selanjutnya antara ITDP dan pemerintah DKI Jakarta mengenai implementasi program IKI di Jakarta yaitu, “1 Juta Penumpang TransJakarta”.

Meeting dengan Bappeda Jakarta

Clayton bertemu dengan Tuti Kusumawati, MM, kepala Bappeda Jakarta membahas program pembangunan TOD di Jakarta yang sudah dijalankan oleh ITDP. Dalam kesempatan ini Tuti menyampaikan rasa terimakasih kepada ITDP atas pembimbingan dalam membangun TOD di Jakarta.

Makan Malam dengan staff ITDP Indonesia 

Malamnya, Clayton makan malam bersama seluruh staff ITDP Indonesia. Dalam sesi ini, staff ITDP Indonesia berbagi cerita dengan Clayton sambil menyantap hidangan khas Indonesia.

3 Februari, 2016 

Meeting dengan Bappenas 

Clayton bertemu dengan Ir. Bambang Prihartono, MSCE, kepala Bappenas untuk mensosialisasikan program IKI ITDP. Dalam meeting ini juga didiskusikan kolaborasi ITDP dan Bappenas selanjutnya untuk mengadakan sejumlah pembangunan sarana transportasi publik di kota-kota lain di Indonesia. Bappenas juga menyatakan siap untuk menolong pendanaan kota-kota di Indonesia untuk pembangunan sistem transportasi publik yang layak dan berkelanjutan.

Meeting dengan Kementerian Perhubungan

Dalam pertemuan ini, ITDP memberikan masukan pada Kementerian Perhubungan mengenai kebijakan pemerintah pusat pada kota-kota kedua yang berpotensi untuk mengembangkan sarana transportasi tidaklah tepat. ITDP memberikan saran untuk mengubah kebijakan, peraturan dan strategi yang dapat diaplikasikan oleh pemerintah pusat pada kota-kota ini untuk mendapatkan hasil yang efektif. Salah satu saran adalah dengan menyediakan dana untuk pembangunan infrastruktur (dalam hal ini sistem BRT) kepada pemerintah kota. Karena selama ini, masalah pendanaan menjadi masalah para pemerintah kota yang menyebabkan sistem yang dijalankan tidak berjalan semestinya.

4 Februari, 2016

Meeting dengan GIZ SUTIP

Clayton dan Faela bertemu dengan direktur GIZ SUTIP, Daniel Herman untuk mendiskusikan tentang program-program GIZ dan ITDP di Indonesia. Melalui meeting ini, telah diputuskan untuk membagi dan membuat draft peraturan untuk program-program GIZ dan ITDP di Indonesia terutama mengenai masalah BRT di Medan untuk menghindari pelaksanaan program yang tumpang tindih sehingga menimbulkan kebingungan pihak pemerintah kota.

The Future of Urban Mobility

ITDP Indonesia menyelenggarakan acara diskusi terbuka “The Future of Urban Mobility” di @america, Pacific Place, Jakarta. Event ini dihadiri oleh peserta diskusi yang berasal dari latar belakang yang berbeda dan menghadirkan 2 pembicara, Clayton Lane, CEO ITDP Global dan Nugie, musisi dan regular cyclist.

Clayton membuka acara dengan presentasinya yang bertajuk “Sustainable Mobility: The Future We Want” dimana Clayton menjabarkan alasan mengapa transportasi berkelanjutan sangat penting dimiliki oleh sebuah kota. Nugie yang memberikan presentasi di sesi kedua menceritakan alasannya mengapa ia memutuskan untuk memilih sepeda sebagai moda transportasi untuk mendukung mobilitasnya, juga beragam pengalaman menarik yang dialaminya ketika bersepeda di jalanan ibukota.

Clayton Lane Indonesia’s Activities: Meet the New CEO of ITDP

Clayton’s Indonesia visit started in Medan, January 31^st and ended in Jakarta, February 4^th, 2016. During his visit in Indonesia, Clayton had numerous meetings with Indonesia authorities and local partners. In between his busy schedule, he also took the time to meet and talk with ITDP Indonesia’s staffs. In the end of his visit in Jakarta, Clayton became one of the speakers in an open discussion event titled “The Future of Urban Mobility” with Indonesian public figure and cyclist, Nugie. Below are Clayton’s activities during his visit in Indonesia.

February 1^st, 2016

Meeting with Provincial Development Planning Agency of Medan

The meeting hosted by Planning Agency of Medan (Bappeda Medan) and attended by Transport Agency of Medan (Dinas Perhubungan Medan), The Public Works Agency of Medan (Dinas Pekerjaan Umum Medan) and legal bureaus. In this meeting, Clayton with Yoga and Faela explained and socialize IKI program in Indonesia which is included the development of public transportation in Medan with BRT system. The responses from the attendees were really well. The attendees said that the suggestion and explanation from ITDP are really effective to be implemented in Medan. The authorities of Medan also wants Medan to have a public transportation with international standard. Clayton also said that Medan have great potential for public transport development and he highlighted that the pedestrian network is the priority.

February 2^nd, 2016

Meeting with Jakarta Economic Bureau

Jakarta Economic Bureau is in charge for several fields and one of it is Transportation Agency. This meeting with Mr. Adi Ariantara head of Economic Bureau, is very important for us to ensure the continuation of collaboration between ITDP and DKI Jakarta government. Clayton with Yoga and Faela reaffirmed the next collaboration between ITDP and Jakarta city government, regarding the implementation of IKI program in Jakarta: “Achieving 1 million TransJakarta Passengers”.

Meeting with Planning Agency of Jakarta

Besides introducing Clayton as the new CEO of ITDP, in this meeting, Clayton, Yoga and Faela met Mrs. Tuti Kusumawati M.M. to explain about ITDP’s work programs in Jakarta, especially the development of TOD’s studies that has been done by ITDP. ITDP Indonesia also helped Provincial Development Planning Agency of Jakarta formulating land use. Mrs. Tuti was really pleased and appreciate ITDP’s assistance for helping formulating the integration between land use and existing transit system.

February 3^rd, 2016

Meeting with State Ministry of National Development Planning

Clayton met Mr. Bambang Prihartono MSCE, the head of State Ministry of National Development Planning to socialize IKI program that will be implemented in Indonesia. Also discussed in the meeting, the next collaboration to infiltrate other cities in Indonesia to implement standardized BRT system. State Ministry of National Development Planning also stated that they will help with the funds for BRT system’s development in every secondary cities in Indonesia.

Meeting with Ministry of Transportation (MoT)

ITDP gave inputs to MoT saying that the policies of central government that have been conducted to help developing secondary cities potential, were not imprecise. ITDP suggested to change policies and strategies that can be applied by the central government to get effective results. And one of the suggestion is providing funds for infrastructure development (in this case BRT system) to city governments. Because all this time, the lack of funds owned by city governments caused the system didn’t operate well.

February 4^th, 2016

Meeting with GIZ SUTIP

Clayton and Faela had a meeting with GIZ SUTIP’s director, Daniel Herman, to discuss about GIZ dan ITDP’s programs in Indonesia. Through this meeting, has been decided to divide and make a draft of rules for all GIZ and ITDP’s programs in Indonesia especially Medan’s BRT to avoid overlapping programs that can cause confusion for city government.

The Future of Urban Mobility

Thursday evening, February 4th, 2016, ITDP Indonesia organized an open discussion titled “The Future of Urban Mobility” at @america, Pacific Place, Jakarta. The event was attended by participants from diverse backgrounds and featuring two speakers; Clayton Lane, CEO of global ITDP and Nugie, musicians and cyclists.

In the first session, Clayton started the event with a presentation titled “Sustainable Mobility: The Future We Want”, where Clayton explained the reasons why sustainable transportation is really important to be owned by a city. Meanwhile in the second session, Nugie shared his stories about why he decided to ride bicycle as his transportation mode and he also shared his experience being a cyclist in Jakarta.

Marco Kusuma Wijaya (@mkusumawijaya), architect and urbanist who came as one of the participant also join the discussion and gave numerous feedbacks and opinion during the session, made the discussion more informative. The enthusiasm also came from the participants passing questions to both speakers.

The event held for 2 hours and it was a full house event! You can watch the discussion through video at this following link.