Creativity development of tourism villages in Bandung Regency, Indonesia: co-creating sustainability and urban resilience.

This study aims to explore the interactions between the government, the tourism industry, universities, media, society, and the environment in the management and utilization of tourist villages in Bandung Regency, Indonesia. The research employed a qualitative-explorative method with a case study approach. Research analysis was assisted by the Nvivo 12 Plus qualitative analysis tool. The result's findings show that tourist villages require coordinated efforts from the government, tourism sector, universities, media, local communities, and the environment because in our opinion the environment/nature cannot only be viewed as an object but must rather be aligned with other important sectors in development programs. This connection may at the very least provide a means of enhancing the management of tourism villages and achieving sustainability and resilience. The contribution of this research provides insight into the process of developing creative tourism villages in realizing sustainability and resilience through tourism villages that pay attention to economic, social, infrastructure, and environmental dimensions.

Indigenous Sundanese Leadership: Eco-Systemic Lessons on Zero Emissions: A conversation with Indigenous leaders in Ciptagelar, West Java.

'Ecology of mind' (Bateson, 1972) is a key concept applied to this project engaged in by a social anthropologist, a policy researcher, and a Sundanese Chief. Together we explore how the agendas for COP 26 could be attained and to what extent the Nobel economist Elinor Ostrom's (2018) eight principles are relevant for managing the commons and key learnings that can be shared more broadly.The paper details the Sundanese forest community's organisational systems to support living in ways that re-generate and sustain the forest and the way that the community has connected with Universitas Padjadjaran and an NGO called the Common Room Networks (common room.id), in order to support and extend their learning with nature program within and beyond Indonesia. Decolonising and learning from Indigenous leadership can be fostered through forming communities of practice between universities and indigenous leaders. The paper discusses how the Ciptagelar community demonstrates low carbon living and how they have organised agriculture in terms of a seasonal calendar. It makes the case that sharing their agricultural methods and community lifestyle to lower emissions could help to inspire others to follow their re-generative approach to governance and their organisational strategies. The paper demonstrates the relevance of Ostrom's principles which are considered in relation to the case study. On the basis of a series of conversations held via zoom and email we make a case for learning from the leadership rooted in the Sundanese culture and demonstrated in West Java First Nations. It can be read as a twin paper with the paper on the Venda forest, titled 'Eco-centric living: a way forward towards zero carbon'.

Overcoming the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia: A Science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy perspective.

Scientific abstract: R&D serves as one of the imperative aspects in handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the Indonesian government has declared the COVID-19 pandemic as a national disaster, a number of accelerated regulations were stipulated, engaging research and innovation acknowledged as Science, technology, and innovation (STI) Policy. The results of the regulation mapping in Indonesia during 2020-2021 include the 9 regulations (categorized as STI Policy and dominated by institutional settings of 44.4%, operational mechanisms of 33.3%, and legal devices of 22.3%) as an attempt to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, it is expected that the implementation of STI Policy plays a role in generating the 50 innovation products through the COVID-19 research and innovation consortium. Public interest abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has been declared as a national disaster in Indonesia. There are nine regulations in the field of Science, technology, and innovation (STI) Policy set by the Indonesian government until July 2021, which regulate institutions, by institutionalizing the implementation of research and innovation in the health sector. The institution is acknowledged as the COVID-19 Research Consortium, consisting of government R&D institutions, universities, industrial R&D institutions, professional associations, regulators, industry, and 50 research and innovation products which have been launched by this consortium.