Buruan Sae, a Green Action towards a Communicative City in Bandung City, West Java Indonesia

Abstract

Bandung as a metropolitan city barely has a resiliency system of food and nutrient provision. Almost 96% of food imported from the outside of the city, makes the city vulnerable. COVID-19 outbreak intensify these challenges as agriculture, which one of the main strategic sectors in Indonesia, affected as well. One of the solutions that the Bandung City government offered is an innovation called Buruan Sae (Sehat Alami dan Ekonomis). This research provides an insight for innovation from urban planning perspective in the context of Buruan Sae. It is found that Buruan Sae already has all four components and the key component of innovation. Althogh, there is opportunity to develop the innovation further by expanding the urban markets through utilization of ICT and engaging more stakeholders with communicative city concept to broaden the urban networks.