On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, the Department of Urban and Regional Planning held the International Lecture Series #07, which was held in a hybrid at the Theater Room and a Zoom Meeting. The discussion theme in the webinar is Sustainable Rural Transformation in the Context of Rapid Urbanization, and in general, it can be related to Sustainable Development Goal 1 (No Poverty) and Sustainable Development Goal 2 (No Hunger). On this occasion, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wiwandari Handayani as the Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning gave opening remarks. Intan Hapsari Surya Putri, M.PWK from the Center for Urban and Regional Resilience Research (CURE), was the moderator who guided the discussion with two presenters. The first material was delivered by Assoc. Prof. Eric. C. Thompson from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. He delivered a presentation about “Sustainable Rural Transformation in the Context of Rapid Urbanization” from several case studies in Indonesia and Malaysia. Meanwhile, Dr. Holi Bina Wijaya from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning explained “Rural Transformation and In Situ Urbanization for Sustainable Development”. From their presentation, we can conclude that in the context of in-situ urbanization in rural areas, there is a need to improve the balance of welfare of rural and urban communities. The recommendation made is that local governments should prepare urban development policies to deal with the rapid growth of rural in situ urbanization, especially in places where factories are concentrated, and rural-urban communities are changing. The webinar activity went well, and there were around 75 participants who attended online and offline, not only students and lecturers at Diponegoro University but also academics from other universities both in Indonesia and abroad, representatives of government agencies, NGOs and alumni of Diponegoro University.
The following is a recording link for International Lecture Series #07 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyc7xUXad8I)
