The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering of University of New South Wales has welcomed a group of senior Indonesian government officials from the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transportation, Jakarta, as well as senior academics from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta.
The group are in Sydney as part of an action-based research program GREAT (Governance Reform in the Indonesian Transport Sector), and will participate in a five day intensive short course at the School on transport infrastructure planning and implementation.
The course will include technical briefings, tours of transport infrastructure and operations, and lectures and seminar exchanges held with leading Australian transport researchers and practitioners from various government and private sector organisations, including UNSW, the University of Sydney, companies including Metro Transport Sydney, Jackson Teece Architects, Transfield Ltd, AtkinsGlobal, Urban Research and Planning, (URaP), and the Sydney Harbour Tunnel Company, as well as NSW Government agencies such as the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet, Sydney Metro, NSW Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation.
The course has been coordinated by Emeritus Professor John Black, who has twenty years involvement as a higher level consultant for governments and the private sector, and researcher in sustainable cities and transport.
Professor Black says, “Indonesia faces enormous challenges in expanding its transport infrastructure and services in an efficient, sustainable and equitable way. Both public sector and private sectors need to take a lead nationally, provincially and locally, with sustainable partnerships being the way forward. This course enables senior government officials to learn the problems and solutions from Australia’s long experience with public-private sector partnerships in transport, and to distill relevant procedures for Indonesia’s economic and social development.”
GREAT research is funded with a competitive grant through the Australia Indonesia Governance Research Partnership – an Australian Government initiative managed by the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. The University of New South Wales and the Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, are collaborating on the continuation of the GREAT research project during 2009.
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