ASIA PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON

Local Government Voices towards HABITAT III on a New Urban Agenda

Programme and Schedule

Date/Time
Day 0, (Friday, 4 September)
09:00 15:00
19:00 21:00
Day 1, (Saturday, 5 September)
08:00 09:00
09:00 10:45

10:45 11:05
11:05 12:30
12:30 13:00
13:00 13:30

Activity
Arrival in Wakatobi
Welcome Reception - hosted by Mayor of Wakatobi
Registration
Opening Session
Welcome Remarks by Mayor of Wakatobi, Mr. Hugua
Remarks by Governor of South-East Sulawesi
Congratulatory Remarks by UCLG ASPAC President Mr. Won
Hee-ryong (Governor of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province)
Opening Ceremony by President of Republic of Indonesia
Break
Lunch/Pagelaran Makanan Traditional
Trip to Patuno Resort
Keynote Speech On New Urban Agenda
DR. Ir. Mochamad Basoeki Hadimoeljono, M. Sc

13:30 15:00

Local Leaders Dialogue

This session will be the round table of the local leaders to
discuss about the New Urban Agenda. This session will give
opportunity to the local leaders to share their strategy,
achievement and challenges to enabling people to obtain good
basic services, facilities and amenities, and in which everyone
enjoys freedom from any discrimination. Moreover, This
session will discuss developing societies that make efficient use
of resources within the carrying capacity of ecosystems and by
providing all people with equal opportunities for a healthy,
safe, and productive life in harmony with nature and their
cultural heritage and spiritual and cultural values, and a life
which ensures economic and social development and
environmental protection.
Participant:
- Mrs. Stephany Uy-tan, Mayor of Catbalogan City
- Mr. Cai Chaolin, Vice Mayor of Guangzhou
- Mr. Hugua, Mayor of Wakatobi
- Mr. Won, Hee-Ryong, Governor of Jeju
- Mr. Djarot Syaiful Hidayat, Vice Governor of Jakarta
Special Province
- Mr. Ivan Kuznetsov, Vice Mayor of Kazan City

15.00-15.15
15.15-16.15

Moderator: Mr. Wicaksono Sarosa, Executive Director of

Kemitraan (The Partnership for Governance Reform)
Coffee Break
Plenary Session
Good Governance
Governance is considered good to the degree in which the
institution and processes are transparent, accountable and
responsive. Good governance promotes equity, participation,
pluralism, transparency, efficient and the rule of law. The
greatest threats to good governance come from corruption,
violence and poverty.
This session will present the best practices and experience of
local governments in the implementation of good governance
system with the focus on the New Urban Agenda.

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The speakers of the session will share their best practices

related to good governance, such as e-budgeting, one-stop
service, peoples participation in decision making.
Panelist:
Mrs. Iiiiza Saaduddin Djamal, Mayor of Banda Aceh
Mr. Takashi Nabeoka, Kyoto Prefectural Government,
Assistant Counselor of The Japan Council of Local
Authorities (CLAIR)
Ms. Tuty Kusumawati, Head of Urban Planning Bureau,
Jakarta Special Province Government
Mr. Ryu Soon-Hyun, Vice Mayor of Daejeon
Metropolitan City/Mr. Lee Donghan, Director of
International Cooperative Division of Daejon
Metropolitan City

16.15-17.15

Moderator: Emeritus Mayor Peter Woods, OAM

Low Carbon Society
This session will discuss and elaborate the policies and scenario
for developing a Low-Carbon Society. Low-carbon society is the
new revolutionary development paradigm that sustains
economic growth while at the same time ensuring climatic and
environmental sustainability. All the worlds countries need to
unite to make efforts to establish a low-carbon society by
reducing global emissions by half from the current level by
2050.
The speakers of this session will highlight the following selected
issues: Transportation, Waste Management and Renewable
Energy.
Panelist:
- Mr. Keisuke Kogure, Tokyo Metropolitan Government,
Deputy of The Japan Council of Local Authorities
(CLAIR)
- Mr. Yuji Kato, Kitakyushu City, Deputy of The Japan
Council of Local Authorities (CLAIR)
- Ms. Miyoung Kim, Assistant Director of Energy Industry
Division of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province
- Mr. Sy. Fasha, Mayor of Jambi City

17.15-17.30
17.30 18:30

Moderator: Dr. Jatin V. Modi

Coffee Break
Sustainable Urbanization
The Habitat III aims to reinvigorate the global commitment to
sustainable urban development. Cities, which are at the
forefront of global socio-economic change, are acknowledged
playing a key role in sustainable development.
Bear in mind that half of the worlds population now lives in
urban areas, it is an urgent need to promote urban
sustainability and to assure the decision and policy making by
cities are intended towards sustainable urban development.
The session will provide significant information and insight how
cities enhancing their role in sustainable urban development
and committed to implement and actively promote urban
sustainability.

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The speakers will expose their initiatives and policies in tackling

the poor people at slum/prone areas, developing new urban
and green revitalization.
Panelist:
Ms. In Sook KIM, Director for Global Urban Partnership
Division Seoul Metropolitan Government

18:30 18:40
18.40 19.00

19:00 19.15
19:15 21:00
Day 2, Sunday, 6 September
09:00 09:30
09:30 09:35
09:35 10:35
10:35 10:55
10:55 12:30
12:30 13:30
13:30 14:30
14:30 14:50
14:50 15:50
19:00 21:00
Day 3, Monday, 7 September
09:00 17:00

19:00 22:00
Day 4, Tuesday, 8 September
08:30 12:00

Mr. Michael Rama, Mayor of Cebu City

Mr. Aw Tuan Kee, Director of Capability Development &

Advisory Services, Centre for Liveable Cities-Singapore

Mr. Philip Khang, Economic Affairs Officer, Environment

and Development Division, UNESCAP

Moderator : Mrs. Diana Lopez, UN-HABITAT

Coffee Break
Closing Session
Presentation of Wakatobi Declaration presented by Dr.
Bernadia Irawati Tjandradewi, Secretary General of UCLG
ASPAC
Remarks from Mr. Hugua, Mayor of Wakatobi Regency
Government
Remarks from Mr. Won Hee-ryong, President of UCLG ASPAC
Break
Gala Dinner and Cultural Performance
Registration
Opening Remarks by Host, Mr. Hugua, Mayor of Wakatobi
Regency Government
Executive Bureau Meeting (session 1)
Coffee Break
Executive Bureau Meeting (session 2)
Lunch
Council Meeting (session 1)
Coffee Break
Council Meeting (session 2)
Farewell Dinner & Cultural Performance of Southeast Sulawesi
Study Visit
The participants will visit the UCLG ASPAC/Wakatobis LowCarbon Project & Eco-tourism Sites
Note: For those who are attending the ASEAN Mayors Forum in
Makassar on 8th and 9th September, they will not join the Study
Tour as they have to leave Wakatobi to depart for Makassar.
Dinner & Cultural Performance of Southeast Sulawesi
Check-out & Departure