2016 Volume 3 Pages 85-
Uncontrolled growth in Greater Jakarta has reduced the green area in Jakarta’s neighboring municipalities. Projected population growth and associated growth in housing will cause further loss of green areas. Spatial planning laws in these municipalities and the application of a national target for urban green areas in each city have been implemented in an attempt to mitigate the loss of green areas. However, further loss of green areas since these laws were issued shows that there are underlying problems in their enactment. Tangerang Selatan has been nominated as a new center for residential, service and trading activities, which provides an opportunity for policy change to mitigate the loss of urban green space in peripheral municipalities. This paper aims to mitigate further loss of green areas in Tangerang Selatan by identifying the underlying problems for green area provision in Tangerang Selatan through analysis of the current regulations and their implementation in different types of development. Findings indicated that achieving sufficient urban green area is a challenge in Tangerang Selatan due to insufficient planning and monitoring capabilities. However, it is found that private sector has the potential for collaboration in green area provision.
