Continuous Empowerment for RW 10 Sukapura Riverbank Community - LeX Singapore Polytechnic & Universitas Pelita Harapan September 2023

Abstrak

RW 10 Sukapura is in North Jakarta City and identified by the North Jakarta Housing Municipal as one of the riverbank poor settlements. In 2021 to 2022 the community received empowerment and physical infrastructure refinement program from the government collaborating with School of Design, Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH). Continuous empowerment in a form of partnership is a key to achieving a degree of delegated power and citizen control as a genuine community participation and empowerment sustainability. To achieve that, in 2023 the School of Design, UPH partnering with the Singapore Polytechnic came back and work collaboratively with the RW 10 Sukapura riverbank community using Design Thinking methods. The collaborative research-design-action activities are aimed to initiate social innovation design for the community in three areas: river pollution, children education, SMEs products, as the continuation to empower the community.