2. 01 EDITORS MAIL HOUSE 2
PRINCIPAL POINT 3-4
RECENT PUBLICATION 1
Soaring Population Growth? Keep Girls in School 5-7
RECENT PUBLICATION 2
Asia Pacific Meeting Address Urban Planning 8
RECENT PUBLICATION 3
Asia, Africa Megacities Top Climate Risk Survey 9-11
DISCOURSE DISCUSSION
The World’s 15 Biggest Metropolitan Areas 12-13
DESIGN NEWS
Tribeca Central Park 14
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
Piolo - The Small and Simple Iphone 4 Stand 16
PROPERTY CONSTRUCTION PLAYERS
Jakarta: A Messy Concrete Jungle 17-19
ARK DESIGN PROJECT 20-22
EVENT 23
STAY INFORMED 24
3. 02
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4. 03
PrincipalPoint
What is the maximum bearing Today we are used to slogans of
capacity of the earth ? “green”, “carbon foot print”, global
warming” and so on. Most of us will
agree those issues are important to our
future and as a species on this planet.
Many movements have evolved to
promote awareness and to get action
taken to curb global warming. It is an
environmental trend on earth, that has
developed over extraordinary and
massive efforts to reverse, if at all
possible.
Based on the widely published research
by the United Nations and other world
agencies, this trend is caused by
ourselves as human inhabitants of this
planet. It is not a natural phenomena
that has caused this globe to warm up
as sea temperatures and sea levels
continue to rise. It is a fact that the use
of non-renewable resources and
chemicals have a great contribution to
global warming. The need for energy,
resources, food and water is crucial to
Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/55007890@N08/5380129160/ human survival on this planet.
Progress in medical science and
technology has increased life
Serious questions and actions need to asked and taken about our lifestyle. expectancies and reduced infant
“Should we limit the growth of human population to be more or less equal to the deaths.
dying population?”
5. 04
PrincipalPoint Ample supply of resources, water and energy through With this continuing exponential trend, the
technology and infrastructure have allowed more areas of earth will surely deteriorate as a place to live
the planet to become human habitable. All the in. Serious questions and actions need to be
development, infrastructure and storage to sustain human asked and taken about our lifestyle. Should we
habitation in far flung places require energy and mainly non limit the growth of human population to be
more or less equal to the dying population ?
renewable resources. The point of this publication today is
“over population”. There are moral, legal and social issues as a
consequence. All signs indicates however that
With the exponential growth in world human population as limiting the population is the only certain way of
seen in the United Nations Census Bureau recently this “spiraling out of control” race for water,
published, in the last 50 years, world population has more food, energy and space ! Do we have enough
than doubled from 3 billion in 1959 to 7 billion people in courage and determination as a species to
2011. This is an increase of 233%. Where it took 123 years take this route, or do we choose to let the
to rise to 2 billion people, from 1 billion in 1804 to 2 billion in future take its own course and try to stop the
1927. By any standards this is an alarming rate. Why ? “bleeding” with greener buildings, wind farms
and new technology to grow more wheat and
In the 1980’s governments of highly populated countries rice ?
imposed limitations on the number of children allowable per
family, Indonesia, China. Draconian social engineering?
What “we” forgot is that many children are born outside a Writer,
formal family, in places where there is no reliable census or
restriction. As a comparison Indonesia’s population Paul Tan
between 1959-2011 grew “only” 158 %, China 130 %,
much less than the world populations growth of 233%.
The highest percentage increase occurred during the
1970-1990 period which by no accident was also the world
oil boom which gave birth to various new countries in the
“...in the last 50 years, Middle East and so on. It shows that population drives the
world population has need for energy which drives the global warming to
more than doubled from 3 alarming levels.
billion in 1959 to 7 billion
It is all and well and admittedly urgent to limit our carbon
people in 2011. This is an output, to reduce our zest for resources and harness the
increase of 233%.” sun’s energy to power our industrial equipment, This is
however a mere band-aid to a bleeding wound.
What is the maximum bearing capacity of the earth ?
6. 05
RecentPublication
Soaring Population Growth?
Keep Girls in School
Photo source : www.google.com
Source : US Cencus Bureau, United Nation, Socioeconomic Data and Application Center,
Populationaction.org - Reuters Jakarta Post
Robinson said “Keeping girls in school was one of the most important things policymakers could do to
address the coming challenges of an ever-increasing population, predicted by the United Nations to
reach 7 billion at the end of the month.”
7. 06
RecentPublication
Former Irish President Mary Robinson was In May, the United Nations projected the world Most family planning experts warn
just making polite conversation when she population would reach 9.3 billion in 2050 and against extreme coercive population
asked an Ethiopian teenager about her 10.1 billion by 2100. Much of that growth will control measures, such as China's
wedding day. come from Africa, where the population is "One Child“ policy, which since 1980
growing at 2.3 percent a year -- more than has limited parents to only one child.
The 16-year-old had already been married a double Asia's 1 percent growth rate. If that
year. "She looked at me with the saddest rate stays consistent, which is not certain, The uniquely draconian policy
eyes and said, 'I had to drop out of school,'" Africa's population will more than triple to 3.6 succeeded in limiting the growth of
Robinson said in a telephone interview billion by 2100 from the current 1 billion. the world's largest population but led
to other problems such as skewing
"That conveyed to me the reality," said Joel Cohen, a professor of population studies the demographic toward males and
Robinson, the first woman to serve as at Rockefeller University York and Columbia, creating a disproportionate aging
Ireland's president and former U.N. high said universal secondary education offered a population.
commissioner for human rights. "Her life, as way to reduce population in high-fertility
far as she is concerned, had more or less regions. In addition to providing information Population Fund or UNFPA, told
ended.“ about contraception, a secondary education Reuters his focus is very much on
motivates women to reduce their own fertility, empowering women in such a
"European countries are concerned about improve the health of their children and allows way as to change the cultural
aging populations as is Japan, but this is them to move from a mind-set of having many norms.
much less of an issue than the huge bulge children in the hopes that some will survive to
of people which we are going to see over improving the quality of each child's life, "When a young woman goes through
the next 40 years when the population goes Cohen wrote in the journal Nature. "Although at least secondary education, her
from 7 billion to 9 billion people," she said. there are other factors at work, in many children survive better, physically they
developing countries, women who complete mature, emotionally they mature, and
"Almost all of that increase will be in poor secondary school average at least one child because they have education, they
developing countries, so that we have a very fewer per lifetime than women who complete are able to make choices,"
big demographic challenge.“ Family planning primary school only," he added. Osotimehin said.
experts worry in particular about the looming
population boom in sub-Saharan Africa.
Soaring Population Growth? Keep Girls in School
8. "
07
RecentPublication
"It is not just their ability to make the choice about Family planning is so much more than just access to abortion," said
family planning. It's also that they have power of their Lyndon Haviland, a senior health fellow at the Aspen Institute, a
own, which enables them to live a life of dignity and nonpartisan think tank in Washington.
respect.“
"It's about healthy pregnancies. It's about building the future for young
Africa is full of examples of countries struggling with girls," Haviland said. Haviland and others argue that family planning is a
efforts to attain full educational enrollment in the face development issue and the lack of it can increase political tensions.
of high fertility, said Dr. Fred Sai, Ghanaian physician
and former director general of the International In Yemen, which has the highest rate of unmet need for family planning,
Planned Parenthood Federation. the population has doubled in less than 20 years and its high fertility rate
of some six children per woman is pressuring that nation's fragile
"Family planning can help to slow down economy, Isobel Coleman of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations said
population growth in those regions and countries in a recent policy report.
where the fertility rates are over two (children) per
woman and especially where women want and In Somalia, 70 percent of the population is under age 30, yet only 1
percent of married women in Somalia have access to modern
need family planning and have no access.“ contraception, and the country has one of the highest rates of population
growth in the world. That is something Robinson observed while visiting
According to UNFPA, more than 215 million women Somalia in July to draw attention to the famine, which has killed nearly
want to delay or prevent pregnancies but lack modern 30,000 children.
contraception. Family planning experts are frustrated
by lack of progress on commitments made to improve "One of the ways you open up a conversation is to ask how many
women's sexual and reproductive health at the 1994 children do you have. Not a single woman said less than six children,"
International Conference on Population and Robinson said.
Development in Cairo.
"We know what works. What works is education of girls and women and
Progress has been stalled in part, they say, by access to healthcare, so that mothers will know their children will
increasing pressure from social survive," she said.
conservatives, especially in the United States, who
equate family planning with abortion.
Source: Jakarta Post
Soaring Population Growth? Keep Girls in School
9. 08
RecentPublication
Asia Pacific meeting
addresses urban planning
The Pacific Rim Council on Urban Development (PRCUD)
meeting that ended in Palembang on Wednesday
addressed urban planning and climate change issues in the
host city.
Representatives from 23 countries in the Pacific rim
participated in the meeting, which was the second PRCUD
meeting held in Palembang since 2002.
The forum, which was inaugurated on Monday by deputy of
regional development and autonomy affairs at the National
Development Planning Board (Bappenas) Max H. Pohan
and PRCUD president Thomas L. Zearley, heard
recommendations on urban development programs Source: www.google.com
designed to prepare the city to overcome the threats of
climate change, including rising sea levels.
Founded in 1989, the PRCUD is an organization of
Based on projections for the period 2005 to 2025, the professionals and academics in the field of urban planning and
urban population in Indonesia will increase by 67.5 percent. development. It was created to contribute to the betterment of
cities and their environments in the Pacific Rim Region.
This rapid urban population growth and climate change are “Adaptation, environmental pollution management and disaster
projected to cause the average temperature in mitigation are among the 10 strategies for spurring national
Indonesia to rise by between 0.8 and 1.0 degree Celsius and regional growth. These strategies are arranged to
from 2020 to 2050. determine the national direction,” he added.
“The impacts can already be seen from the frequent Zearley said the Palembang municipality had shown its
flooding in major cities, like Jakarta, Semarang and commitment to organize slum areas, evidenced by the
Surabaya, due to the rise in sea water. That’s why urban development of special settlements, especially low-income
areas should be able to adapt to the climate change to families, public sanitation, such as decent public bathrooms
anticipate disasters in urban development,” Pohan said. and children’s facilities in the 3-4 Ulu slum area.
Source: The Jakarta Post
10. 09
RecentPublication
Source: Jakarta Post
Asia, Africa Megacities Top Climate Change Risk
Survey
11. 10
RecentPublication
Other megacities at extreme or high risk include
Asia, Africa Megacities Top Manila, Kolkata, Jakarta, Kinshasa, Lagos, Delhi
Climate Change Risk Survey and Guangzhou.
The study by risk analysis and mapping firm
Maplecroft, released on Wednesday, comes as the
United Nations says the world's population will hit
seven billion next week and as huge floods
inundate areas of Thailand and the capital Bangkok.
The survey ranks nearly 200 nations in terms of
vulnerability to climate change over the medium
term. It also ranks the top-20 fastest-growing cities
by 2020 in terms of risk, with the study based on a
series of indices. The survey maps the world in 25-
square-km segments according to vulnerability,
making regional assessments easier.
"Population growth in these cities combines with
poor government effectiveness, corruption, poverty
and other socio-economic factors to increase the
David Fogarty / Reuters Singapore risks to residents and business," said Maplecroft.
Rapidly growing megacities in Africa and Asia face This meant infrastructure already stretched in many
the highest risks from rising sea levels, floods and cities , would struggle to cope as populations
other climate change impacts, says a global survey increase, making disaster responses less effective
aimed at guiding city planners and investors. at a time when disasters might become more
frequent.
Haiti is the country most at risk from climate change,
while Iceland is the least vulnerable. Thailand is
ranked 37th. Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, is the
megacity most at risk with an "extreme" ranking.
Asia, Africa Megacities Top Climate Change Risk Survey
12. 11
RecentPublication
The impacts of this could have far reaching storms and the likely increase in these disasters.
consequences, not only for local populations, but Rainfall intensity is likely to increase in tropical
on business, national economies and on the Asia, climate scientists say.
balance sheets of investors around the world,
particularly as the economic importance of these Highlighting the areas of great risk also offered
nations is set to dramatically increase," Charlie investment opportunities.
Beldon, Maplecroft's principal environmental
analyst, said in a statement. "Changing demands for goods and services can
present opportunities for new products or
Maplecroft analyses the exposure of populations innovative modifications to existing ones,"
to climate related natural hazards and sensitivity Maplecroft says.
of countries in terms of population concentration,
development, natural resources, agricultural Globally, many other cities were also vulnerable
dependency and conflict. They also rank in terms to climate change, Maplecroft said, but better
of a country's, city's or region's ability to adapt. governance, greater wealth and better policies
meant they were more able to adapt.
The maps highlight areas within countries that
might be more vulnerable, allowing risks to towns,
cities, economic zones and individual company Source: Jakarta Post
assets to be identified.
For instance, Manila, as the Philippines'
commercial center, is extremely vulnerable
because of its huge population, rapid growth --
estimated to add another 2.2 million people
between 2010 and 2020 – risk from flooding
and
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Asia, Africa Megacities Top Climate Change Risk Survey
13. 12
DiscourseDiscussion
Tokyo (Japan)
Metropolitan Area: 35.2 million people
City: 12.9 million people
Seoul (South Korea)
Metropolitan Area: 25 million people
City: 10.4 million people
Jakarta (Indonesia)
Metropolitan Area: 22 million people
City: 9.6 million people
Mumbai (India)
Metropolitan Area: 21.9 million people
City: 14 million people
New Delhi (India)
Metropolitan Area: 20.9 million people
City: 9.8 million people
Manila (The Philippines)
Metropolitan Area: 20.6 million people
City: 11.2 million people
Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Metropolitan Area: 20.1 million people
City: 11 million people
14. 13
Beijing (China)
DiscourseDiscussion Metropolitan Area: 19.7 million people
City: 13.3 million people
Shanghai (China)
Metropolitan Area: 19.2 million people
City: 13.8 million people
New York City (USA)
Metropolitan Area: 19 million people
City: 8 million people
Mexico City (Mexico)
Metropolitan Area: 18.7 million people
City: 8 million people
Cairo (Egypt)
Metropolitan Area: 17.2 million people
City: 7 million people
Kolkata (India)
Metropolitan Area: 15.6 million people
City: 5.1 million people
Los Angeles (USA)
Metropolitan Area: 14.7 million people
City: 3.8 million people
Moscow (Russia)
Metropolitan Area: 13.7 million people
City: 10.5 million people
Source : http://knowledge.allianz.com
15. 14
DesignNews
Tribeca
Central Park
The masterplan of Central Park has an organic
flowing form with the head at the main entrance, that
asks for a continuation and a closure. The request
for a bridge between the mall and Tribeca and the
design of Tribeca itself, rose as a perfect opportunity
to bring this form to a complete curve and tail, back
close to the main entrance to delineate several
negative spaces to become more defined.
The park is now truly at the center of Central Park.
The entrance and drop off to the hotel adjacent to
the park, is now more defined and given a specific
identity from the overall mall facade. The dynamism
of the flowing curves and fins of the bridge with its
leaning columns and the waving facade of Tribeca,
slowly terminates at the end of Tribeca, paying
homage to its head which is the main entrance.
The park was designed to become the main draw
card of the design, both functionally as well as
functionally. Not many other malls have the courage
to spend about 18,000m2 on parkland. These
"green lungs" is exactly what Jakarta inhabitants
needed being an overcrowded city of 15 million. The
park has become the heart of the this mall creating
a lively urban habitat for thousands of people
everyday.
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18. PropertyConstructionPlayers
Jakarta:
A Messy Concrete Jungle
Skyscrapers. High-rise offices and hotels
dominate the Mega Kuningan business district
in South Jakarta. More such tall buildings are
under construction and are expected to open in
the city later this year.
Photo by: Jakarta Post
19. 18
PropertyConstructionPlayers
This year more concrete buildings will spring up,
decorating Jakarta’s skyline to meet the needs of
people for living space or to expand their business.
Analysts have also forecast that the property sector
in the city will remain strong in 2012 on the back of
high demand and positive economic growth.
But has the concept behind a high-rise city really
worked in Jakarta? Or will it only portray Jakarta as
a messy concrete jungle?
“The absence of a development concept has turned
Jakarta into a disorganized city,” Tarumanegara
University urban and spatial planner Suryono
Herlambang told The Jakarta Post.
He said that most cities focused on developing their
areas vertically because they wanted to create a
compact and efficient city so that they would have
more open public spaces on the ground. Photo by: Jakarta Post
“Do we see that here? We don’t see plenty of open Jakarta has at least five areas that have
spaces in Jakarta. What we have got here is the become the main Central Business
more vertical buildings stand, the less open space District (CBD). They are located along
we [Jakarta] have,” he said. Jl. MH. Thamrin and Jl. Jend. Sudirman
in Central Jakarta, Jl. Gatot Subroto, Jl.
“The lack of concept had also prompted the H.R. Rasuna Said and Jl. TB.
development of too many central business district Simatupang in the South Jakarta.
centers that only created new problems,” Suryono
said. In recent years, superblocks have
begun to emerge in Jakarta, with
“While the development in Sudirman has not been developers offering city dwellers all the
totally completed, Jakarta has seen another exclusivity with interrelated residences
business district development in Kuningan, and and industries along with commercial,
other areas. In addition, the trend of superblocks in social and recreational facilities. People
Jakarta has created new traffic congestion zones in can have their dream homes close to
the city,” he said. offices, malls, hospitals and other
facilities.
.
20. 19
PropertyConstructionPlayers
Suryono said developers could not be totally The bylaw sets an outline on how Jakarta will be
blamed for constructing many high-rise buildings developed over the next 20 years. There are currently
across the city as they had been given permits from over 120 high-rise buildings in Jakarta, most of which
the authorities. He also said a thorough are used as office space. According to a property
development concept was urgently needed in order consultant, Cushman & Wakefield Indonesia, the
to re-organize the city. demand for office space in Jakarta’s CBDs is expected
to grow between 8 and 9 percent while the annual net
“Jakarta’s administration must plan and prepare all usage is predicted to reach approximately 350,000
supporting infrastructure so that the construction of square meters. In its report, four high-rise buildings are
concrete buildings will not worsen the face of the scheduled to be completed this year.
city,” he said. “And I don’t see that yet in the
2010-2030 spatial planning bylaw.” Arief Rahardjo, the associate director of research at
Cushman & Wakefield also said Jakarta would see a
significant increase in the construction of
condominiums. “Greater Jakarta will see 18,140
condominiums completed in 2012, up from 8,088 units
in 2011,” he said. “But the development of shopping
malls in Jakarta will slow down this year as the city
administration has imposed a moratorium on shopping
malls,” Arief said.
Governor Fauzi Bowo issued a gubernatorial decree to
restrict the issuance of construction permits for new
shopping malls bigger than 5,000 square meters until
the end of 2012.
Source: Jakarta Post
Photo by: Jakarta Post
Jakarta: A Messy Concrete Jungle
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24. Events
Welcome H.E. Yoshinori Katori,
Ambassador of Japan
Merchantile Athletic Club Jakarta
Australia Awards Alumni Morning Tea
with the Hon. Mr. Kevin Rudd,
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The Ambassador of Australia Residence
th
25. StayInformed
Ivonne Gondo Wardojo, ST, IAI
Graduated from Petra University on 2000.
She has joined Arkdesign Architects on
October 2011 as an Associate.
Ahmad Soleh, ST
Arkdesign team .
Graduated from Winaya Mukti University on
would like to introduce. 2005. He has joined Arkdesign Architects on
the new crew members September 2011 as a CAD Architect
Fajar Abdi Wibawa
Graduated from SMK PGRI 12 Rawamangun
on 1994. He has joined Arkdesign Architects
on January 2012 as a CAD Architect
e la m a t H a r i R a y a Surely we can work together and give our creative contribution for our team.
N ye p i Welcome aboard, guys!
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