Rian Mantasa Salve Prastica
Research interest:
Urban hydrology, urban storm-water management, flood hydrology, water quality modelling, green infrastructure, groundwater modelling and development, impacts of climate change

Hi! So this is not my scientific article about WSC. I write this post to start several research projects in the field. My interest grows for the first time when I started to become a research student in the Australia-Indonesia Centre for urban water research cluster. Then, I think it would be spectacular to open new roads in this field for urban regions in Indonesia.

As urban development, the urgent need for flood mitigation, urban storm-water management, and water quality is compulsory to be conducted. The increase in the population today makes our environment gets higher risk of damage.

In 2017, The Australia-Indonesia Centre with institutions both in Australia and Indonesia gather to develop solutions for Bogor as urban cities which are needed to be concerned to tackle the urban water-related disaster.

The main report of the research project could be found in here.

There are many research gaps which could be investigated regarding water sensitive cities in Indonesia due to lack of concerns in the related field. Actually many problems related to water sensitive urban design (WSUD) become separated researchers expertise, such as water quality, environmental pollution, urban hydrology, eco-hydraulics, climate change dynamics, water-related disaster mitigation, and others.

The main focus of WSUD is the city itself. The management of the environment in scientific fields is needed to obtain academic insight for decision-makers to decrease the worst impact in the near future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPZ04kjx6IA

In the next years, many regions in Indonesia would have an inclination of population and infrastructures, which absolutely effect the environmental dynamics in the cities. Cities need to face their urban disaster and minimize the effect on the people inside.

It could not be denied that problems from upper-stream and downstream of watershed still become war-debate among stakeholders. This is one of the barriers which should be overcome by many people to obtain findings in achieving water sensitive cities in Indonesia.

What do you think about this issue? I would be interested to discuss this topic and to start research in the related field.

You can discuss with me through rian.mantasa.s.p@ugm.ac.id or Instagram @rianmantasasp