It is not uncommon that collaborative governance is now generating new attention in Indonesia as a method of governing. This is because of the terrible historical experience of governance during the New Order era, including the state’s dominant role, the government’s unwillingness to engage actors outside the state, and a centralized and top-down development pattern. Collaborative governance, specifically the recommendation to involve multiple stakeholders (government, private sector, and society) in government management and public policy, addresses these issues. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to provide a critical review of the ongoing collaborative governance process and to determine whether various challenges associated with collaborative governance are influencing the success of climate change adaptation policies in increasing adaptive capacity in Bandar Lampung City. This study was conducted in Bandar Lampung City on the Indonesian island of Sumatra using a qualitative approach and involved informants who were both apparatus and members of the Bandar Lampung City Climate Change Resilience Coordination Team. Interviews and document analysis were used to collect data, which were then analyzed using a content analysis procedure. The findings indicate that this city has achieved a number of milestones in its efforts to improve the adaptive capacity of government institutions and society. However, the collaborative governance approach, which is hailed as the optimal method for implementing long-term public policies, is not always smooth, demonstrating that collaborative governance remains vulnerable to failure due to cultural, institutional, and political factors. The article concludes with suggestions for future research.

The objective of this article is to explain the ambivalent existence related to actor domination in the collaborative governance. As a precondition for the collaborative governance process, domination is a factor which must be prevented to maintain equality and mutual trust between actors. Therefore, the core question of this article is that is it true that the actor domination has negative effects to the collaboration sustainability? This article was written by using qualitative method. Data were collected with deep interviews, document studies, and literary studies and data were analyzed by using descriptive technique. The case of Lampung province central government displacement in 2004-2016 was made to be a research basis to answer the core question. The research finding showed that actor domination was dilemmatic. The collaboration process was in fact very dependent on the main actor who “control” the collaboration process, both in the planning stage (through Planning Coordination Team) and in implementation stage (through forum of Region Management Agency). This finding was very important because in spite of violating equality between actors, the actor domination in this policy case was beneficial. The inequality which was assumed to produce mutual untruths was not proven. In conclusion, actor domination is an ambivalent; something that must be prevented, but it then becomes a key factor. In what situation this actor domination gives a meaning? This article tries to answer it.

Partisipasi perempuan dalam menyelenggarakan pembangunan desa yang berkeadilan sangatlah penting. Partisipasi dalam pembangunan tidak hanya terbatas dalam pelaksanaan pembangunan semata melainkan dari mulai membuat perencanaan pembangunan. Kehadiran perempuan dalam forum perumusan perencanaan pembangunan desa haruslah bersifat substantif dan tidak sekedar administratif agar dapat benar-benar memengaruhi pembangunan desa. Sayangnya partisipasi perempuan dalam perencanaan pembangunan desa masih belum optimal. Pengabdian ini bertujuan untuk menguatkan partisipasi perempuan dalam perencanaan pembangunan agar pembangunan desa lebih berpihak kepada perempuan dan berkeadilan gender. Metode pengabdian yang digunakan adalah focus group discussion. Berdasarkan hasil tes awal dan akhir, terlihat bahwa terjadi penguatan pemahaman tentang aspek akses, partisipasi, kontrol, dan manfaat dalam pembangunan yang setara dan berkeadilan gender. Hal ini juga sekaligus menunjukkan bahwa terjadi peningkatan kesadaran dan motivasi perempuan untuk lebih berpartisipasi dalam perencanaan pembangunan desa serta kesadaran laki-laki untuk memberi akses dan kesempatan kepada perempuan. Peluang terjadinya pembangunan yang partisipatif, setara, dan adil menjadi lebh besar. Hal ini juga berarti bahwa pengabdian ini berhasil.

Starting condition is one of key factors in determining the success of the policy collaboration, through the indicators of power or resource balance, incentive types, trust between collaborators, and prehistory of collaborators. The objective of this research was to provide recommendation concerning how and in what form of starting condition that should be realized in efforts of building religious deradicalization policy model. This was a descriptive research by using inductive approach. Data were collected by in-depth interview, observation and library research. Data were analyzed qualitatively by reduction, presentation, and conclusion drawing steps. The perspective of pesantren (Islamic boarding schools) was selected because the government so far only positioned pesantren as the object of policy so that the relation model built between the government and pesantren was instructive pattern. Factually, this relationship pattern provided less positive effect to religious de-radicalization policy efficacy, especially in Lampung province. Research results showed that four basic elements of starting condition in commencing religious de-radicalization policy collaboration process could be realized by some methods. Injury in form of power or resource imbalance, not wholeheartedly participation, distrust between actors, and conflicts experienced by collaborators must be avoided. However, this starting condition was not sufficient to build pesantren based religious de-radicalization policy collaboration model. The institutional design, leadership facilitation, and optimization of collaboration process became other three key factors for building the model and the success of religious deradicalization policy collaboration.