ABSTRACT

In 2012, as a political will to improve price of goods equality, Indonesian government initiated a program named as Motorways of the Sea Program (Tol Laut). Ramification of the program is that large number of stakeholders in Indonesia maritime logistics should be accounted in the design and implementation processes. In order to empower multi perspective in development, stakeholders’ involvements shall be considered based on their interests, barriers, and expectations. This study aims to identify those interests, barriers, and expectations from stakeholders in developing and implementing Motorways of the Sea program. Those identification processes will be used as considerations to obtain support from important stakeholders especially government, shipping industry, and ports. Critical system heuristic is used to describe distinctive interests between stakeholders in maritime logistic system. Interviews are conducted with several stakeholders such as shipping companies, government, port infrastructure providers and port operators. Interview results have been triangulated using field observations in several Indonesia main ports. This study is producing a systemic map of each stakeholder’s interest, barriers, and expectations that will eventually enable policy makers to have holistic view of the situation, which is important to design policy that generate shared value in the Motorways of the Sea implementation.