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This chapter highlights the potential for water-based development solutions as a new or less explored option for the sustainable and future-proof development of Jakarta. It begins with the overview of the problematical issue of urbanization combined with sea level rise threat in the city and is followed with assessment of the recent policies in Jakarta. We argue that sea urbanism to deal with the issue has been overlooked, particularly on floating strategy which advances urban development and life above the water. Therefore, we are interested to know community’s perception and attitude towards advancing above the water and this is likely the first study on the topic for Jakarta. We conducted a questionnaire survey involving 540 individuals from six districts in North Jakarta that are predicted to be inundated by 2050. It suggests while the majority of survey participants in the study area have a preference for conventional protective strategies, almost half of them are interested in innovative and transformational ones, such as advancing strategies. It indicates that people in Jakarta will likely not oppose the idea of advancing development on water. Finally, the chapter highlights the potential implementation and implications for advancing development on Jakarta’s water from a human dimension perspective.
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Setiadi, R., Baumeister, J., Lo, A. (2023). Floating Jakarta: A Human Dimension. In: Baumeister, J., Giurgiu, I.C., Linaraki, D., Ottmann, D.A. (eds) SeaCities. Cities Research Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2481-3_6
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