| Abstrak/Abstract |
Sister city cooperation exercised since 1960 in Indonesia, yet the program’s impact in city development is not significant. This paper highlight impactful outcomes produce by proper governance in sister city cooperation. This research utilized a case study of the green sister city cooperation between Surabaya City (Indonesia) and Kitakyushu (Japan), by doing data analysis retrieved from interviews and documents. The green sister city collaboration is considered successful because the organic waste management project is able to help the Surabaya City government reduce the number of organic waste by half. Utilized the governance networks framework, our findings and analysis identify the key actors in this program are Surabaya City Government, Kitakyushu City Government, Japan's Private Sector (Nishihara Co.), and Surabaya's NGO, Nol Sampah Surabaya. The green sister city cooperation has an "imperfect" self-governed network structure, which encourages compact actors’ involvement, but in accordance with the capital required to the programs. In contrast to the "perfect" self-governed network, this model of sister city collaboration shows the dynamic intensity of social interactions and authority distributions between actors. |
