VNR for Implementation of NUA Republic of Indonesia

On the commemoration of World Habitat Day 2021, the government of Indonesia has submitted a provisional report on the implementation of New Urban Agenda (NUA) in the country. The provisional report is intended to provide an overview of how Indonesia has contributed to the implementation of the NUA and what has been achieved to date. However, there are several data limitations in the report due to technical requirements of data verification and approval conditions from the respective institutions. The submission of this final report is a complement to the provisional report. The structure of the final report also follows the reporting guidelines issues by UN-Habitat.

As the focal point of UN-Habitat issues in the country, the Ministry of Public Works and Housing (MoPWH) holds responsibility for the preparation and submission of the national report on the implementation of the NUA. The report mostly derived from the census and socio-economic surveys conducted by Statistics Indonesia (BPS) and the data presented in SDGs reports issued by the SDG National Secretariat under the Ministry of Development Planning (Bappenas). However, not all data relevant to the multi-faceted aspects of NUA indicators are available in those two sources. We therefore explored data sources at various ministries, government agencies, local governments as well as from professionals, associations, academic institutions and NGOs.

The monitoring of the national implementation of NUA has adopted a participatory approach in which various stakeholders were involved and engaged through several rounds of focus group discussions (FGDs). From the entire discussions we managed to identify roles played by various actors, to identify relevant and available data, and to gain insights from a variety of cases of the NUA implementation. Through this participatory monitoring process, we have been able to grasp a bigger view of the NUA implementation in Indonesia, and have gained a better understanding of the challenges it faced. We also hope that the participatory approach adopted in the monitoring process has created a sense of ownership of the data reported which could lead to collaborations and policy coherence among various institutions involved in sustainable urban development.

We believe that this report marks a key step in the long journey towards the realization of the 2036 agenda, which provides a basis for reflection on the first quarter journey, and sheds light on future challenges.