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ASIAN GEOGRAPHER
Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages 21-43Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2020.1750441
Keywords
Megaproject; perception; people; infrastructure development; Indonesia
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- Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP), Republic of Indonesia
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This article examines the impact of mega-infrastructure projects on local residents, emphasizing that long-term exposure to such projects could change their perceptions. The results suggest the importance of taking people's perceptions into account in megaproject development to bridge the gap between top-down expected benefits and bottom-up acceptance or rejection.
For the last few decades, the development of mega-infrastructure projects has been high on the agendas of policymakers in Southeast Asia. Despite the potential benefits of such projects, there are also inevitable societal impacts that often lead to protests by local people. In general, most literature on megaprojects focuses solely on managing projects, with limited coverage of local people's perceptions. This article, however, offers an analytical approach to perception making, adopted from psychology theories, which is then elaborated upon in a quantitative and qualitative empirical setting using the Suramadu cable-stayed bridge in Indonesia as a case study. Our main argument is that perceptions about megaprojects can change as a result of long-term, high-level exposure to such projects. The results imply the need for megaproject development to take people's perceptions into account to bridge the gap between top-down expected benefits and bottom-up acceptance or rejection by those outside the central power.
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