Indonesia is currently on track in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Goal 6. In clean water provision, many regions, especially urban areas, are facilitated by both state-owned and private-owned water utility companies. However, the coverage of these public and private clean water providers is still limited. Many households in areas not covered with formal clean water provisions secure their needs with self-supplied clean water provisions. Many works of literature show that self-supplied clean water can be an alternative to the unequal, slow and even failed public provision of water services. However, there has been little research in Indonesia that attempts to examine the current self-supplied water managed by communities. Thus, this paper explores the provision of self-supplied water at the household level using the 2018 SUSENAS data. This paper will develop two categories of households based on the source of clean water both in rural and urban areas and explore several other categories (based on administrative and geographical characteristics). The purpose of this research is to show the potential of self-supplied water in various regions in Indonesia to support the government’s strategy and progress in achieving universal access to clean water by 2030.

This study analysed how urban planning policy reflects the principles of social justice in relation to decision-making processes and the provision of sewerage infrastructure in Jakarta, Indonesia. It highlights the need to consider the role or capacity of planning in ensuring social justice, particularly in cities in the Global South, where urban planning approaches have been unable to address the complexity of Southern realities. This has resulted in growing problems of poverty and inequality.

Indonesian wastewater sector management has been marked as having low coverage and slow in development, even though the system has been initiated since 1969 and the first masterplan for Jakarta Sewerage System and Sanitation Project was developed in 1977. In addition, two other master plans were developed in 1991 and 2012. The long history of planning to develop the citywide sewerage coverage resulted in only marginal coverage. As a complementary and short-term strategy, the Indonesian government also developed community-based sanitation to solve local sanitation problems such as RW Kumuh. In this paper, ideas will be proposed on how to improve the latter strategy and integrate it to the citywide sanitation.