Biography: Tia Dianing Insani has worked as a Researcher at Diponegoro University’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP), Indonesia since 2016. Affiliated with DURP’s Laboratory of Regional Development and Environmental Management and CURE (Centre for Urban and Regional Resilience Research) under the Faculty of Engineering at Diponegoro University, she conducted research on urban and rural resilience, focusing on livelihoods, climate policy co-benefits, disaster risk reduction, spatial planning, urban mobility and transport planning. She holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Urban and Regional Planning from Diponegoro University. She is currently a Doctoral Student at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning, TU Berlin.
PhD Thesis Working Title: From Policy to Pavement: Governance and Financing Towards Sustainable Urban Public Transport in Indonesia.
Abstract: Indonesian cities face a critical implementation gap in sustainable urban public transport. Despite growing national policy support, fragmented institutional mandates, limited local fiscal capacity, and systemic temporal misalignments between electoral, budgetary, and project cycles consistently inhibit the translation of plans into operational infrastructure. This research investigates how governance arrangements and temporal alignment shape the implementation trajectory of sustainable urban public transport in Indonesia’s second-tier cities, with a focus on Semarang ans Surabaya. Drawing on an extended multi-level governance framework that incorporates financial-institutional, socio-political, and discursive power, the study employs a mixed-methods case study design. Data collection includes document and legal analysis, semi-structured interviews with government, operator, and civil society actors, focus group discussions with commuters, an institutional network survey, and direct observation of transit corridors. A central analytical tool is the “Temporality Matrix,” which layers policy, budget, procurement, and operational timelines to reveal misalignments and critical path delays. The research also assesses the governance preconditions for Land Value Capture (LVC) as an innovative financing instrument, using a readiness checklist covering legal authority, revenue-sharing rules, accounting capacity, and sequencing protocols. Findings will inform the co-design of practical governance and financing interventions with local stakeholders. The study contributes a diagnostic tool for governance readiness, a theoretical advance in temporal governance and planning, and policy recommendations for accelerating the policy-to-pavement transition in Indonesian cities and comparable middle-income contexts.