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Examining flood policy change in Jakarta, Indonesia using the Multiple Stream model (2019)
Book Chapter
Octavianti, T. (2019). Examining flood policy change in Jakarta, Indonesia using the Multiple Stream model. In E. Penning-Rowsell, & M. Becker (Eds.), Flood Risk Management: Global Case Studies of Governance, Policy and CommunitiesRoutledge

This chapter examines the usability of Kingdon’s (2003) Multiple Stream (MS) model to understand the extent to which major flood events precipitated policy changes in Jakarta, Indonesia. Scholars (Rosenthal and t’Hart, 1998; Johnson et al. 2005; Sult... Read More about Examining flood policy change in Jakarta, Indonesia using the Multiple Stream model.

The evolution of Jakarta’s flood policy over the past 400 years: The lock-in of infrastructural solutions (2018)
Journal Article
Octavianti, T., & Charles, K. (2019). The evolution of Jakarta’s flood policy over the past 400 years: The lock-in of infrastructural solutions. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(6), 1102-1125. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654418813578

This paper presents an analysis of the evolution of flood policy in a city in the developing world. Jakarta was selected in order to analyse the role of colonialisation on water policy. Drawing data from historical sources and interviews of key infor... Read More about The evolution of Jakarta’s flood policy over the past 400 years: The lock-in of infrastructural solutions.

Disaster capitalism? Examining the politicisation of land subsidence crisis in pushing Jakarta’s seawall megaproject (2018)
Journal Article
Octavianti, T., & Charles, K. (2018). Disaster capitalism? Examining the politicisation of land subsidence crisis in pushing Jakarta’s seawall megaproject. Water Alternatives, 11(2), 394-420

This paper offers an analysis of 'disaster capitalism', in which fear of disaster is exploited to facilitate the entry of a capitalist project, with regard to Jakarta’s flood policy. After a major flood hit the city in 2013, the Indonesian government... Read More about Disaster capitalism? Examining the politicisation of land subsidence crisis in pushing Jakarta’s seawall megaproject.