SAMUEL GERALD MARPAUNG Phone: (+62) 81281765680, Email:
[email protected] Address: Perum Kota Wisata- cluster WESTCOVINA SG2 no.1 Jl. Alternatif Transyogi Cibubur km 6 Gn. Putri Bogor EDUCATION Bandung Institute of Technology – City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning; WORK EXPERIENCE Rujak Center for Urban Studies; Intern (April-June 2016)
Assigned to work on a team consist of 3 interns (students), supervised by 2 RCUS professionals, making infographics and booklet about RDTR map, observing problems occuring in villages and low income houses in Jakarta.
ORGANIZATION EXPERIENCE Perwakilan Kelas (Class Representatives) SMA Negeri 8 Jakarta
Head of division I ( Christian Student Organization) Head of a program and manage it successfully
SKILLS Technical:
Urban Planning Software : ArcGIS Design Software : Illustrator, Photoshop
Dear Sir or Madam, With this letter, i would like to express my interest in becoming a global citizen to make a change with my vision to the world. I am a scholar and I have a vision that I will make Urban Planning relevant in Indonesians prespective in 20 years time. This vision is enlightened when I attended Prepcom 3, a program by UN-Habitat for finalize a draft that will be signed in Habitat III in Quito. At first, I didn’t know what AIESEC is and what works do AIESEC does, but when i find AIESEC at Urban Youth Meeting, i find an opportunity to present my vision. AIESEC is a global youth organization and I think that youth voices are relevant to solve problems occuring now. As the draft said, the world are focused on changing development priorities to New Urban Agenda, and one of the action areas is in Urban Planning and Design. And one of the key points of urban planning is urban residents must be at the centre of planning. So by changing our mindset that the centre of planning is people, we can make numerous changes on how a city would be like in the future. Most of my time in RCUS was studying how culture can make a great impact on urban housing. One of the culture is co-operation or in Indonesia is “gotong royong”. Some of this action is still relevant in the urban area, but when city grows, less people share this kind of behavior. One of the settlement that still adopting this method is none other than villages. Villages in Jakarta are diverse and unique in many ways, and have a same characteristic that is homogenous. By seing village as an community, everyone in the village are tied together. If one of them have problems, neighbours will also felt the urgency to solve the problem. This culture is lacked by real estate settlements and other tipe of settlement like apartment, villas, etc. As an real estate home owner, I felt that I never have connection or even emphaty to my neighbours. This is a major problems happening in urban communities. Now, villages are being eradicated easily because people didn’t understand urban legislation and map. Some of them are removed without knowing the purpose of the removal. This is a setback for achieving the New Urban Agenda. So as a citizen and a scholar, I have change people prespective about villages. As joining prepcom 3 i understand that participating as a stakeholder in ECOSOC can make a great impact. Inducted by prepcom 3, Surabaya change it’s layout of the city to a more well designed city. There are more parks, safe roads for people to cross by, and more public spaces. So by becoming a global citizen i can learn situation in other places and compare them to problems in my country. And by participating the project, i can improve myself on management skills and creative ideas to make cities more inclusive. Also I can learn how to stimulate the awareness and participation of community. Cause without doing, learning be can pointless, so by becoming a global citizen I can understand the field of my target and develop new ways to achieve it. Thank you for considering my request. I look forward to your positive respons. Your faithfully,
Samuel Gerald Marpaung
