PREFACE: The 6th International Conference in The Era of Uncertainty (ICPEU)

The honourable Vice Dean of General Affairs at Faculty of Engineering: Ir. Ismu Rini Dwi Ari, MT., Ph.D, Department Head of Regional and Urban Planning, Dr. Eng. I Nyoman Suluh Wijaya, ST., MT., the honourable keynote speakers – Dr. Joe Ravetz from University of Manchester – United Kingdom, Dr. Hebe Verrest from the Universiteit van Amsterdam – Netherlands, Prof. Kiyoshi Kobayashi drom Kyoto University – Japan, Le Minh NGO, Ph.D from Ton Duc Thang University – Vietnam, Gunawan Prayitno from Universitas Brawijaya – Indonesia, and ladies and gentlemen. Assalamualaikum Wr Wb, I would like to thank everyone in this room today for your enthusiasm and participation in the 6 th International Conference on Planning in the Era of Uncertainty at Universitas Brawijaya. ICPEU is a biennial event that we have organized since 2013. We have focused on the discussion of sustainable development since the very beginning, as we truly believe that this topic is very relevant to what we, in the field of planning, face at the moment and in the future. In 2013 we started off the discussion with the big question, does planning theory can be applied thoroughly in practice? It was a very memorable discussion as we explored many interdisciplinary problems and solutions in planning. We then developed our topic to sustainable development in 2015 as we considered this as an underlying topic for all relevant problems and solutions. Again, the discussion was remarkable. Papers from different countries participated at the event. In 2017, we started publishing our papers on IOP Proceedings, which is a Scopus-indexed form of publication. We published 67 papers from different universities in different countries. And we believe that this event at this moment, will be more successful than our predecessors. The topic In the Repertoire of Desa, Kutha, and the Conversation in Between is yet another situation that we all can relate to. A problem that requires collective attention to achieve equality and sustainability in the future development of village and city. Looking back at the events that we have organized so far, we learned that the pursuit of achieving sustainability has attracted ever-growing global interest. We have received papers from South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Indonesia discussing and showcasing multi-level efforts in achieving sustainable development from different perspectives. In short, the response that we received has been overwhelmingly positive. I would like to thank our dearly sponsors, Universitas Brawijaya, the Faculty of Engineering, BRI, PLN, PT. SMI, By.U, and Linggar Prabangka for their support that have allowed us to organize this event. We received a number of 82 extended abstracts for this event, and unfortunately, we could only accept a number of 51 selected ones to be published on our upcoming IOP Publishing, Evergreen, IJPD UNDIP, JSED WIDYAGAMA, TATALOKA UNDIP, REGION UNS, TAKODA UB, CIVENSE UB, and ISBN Proceeding. Therefore, I would like to congratulate all authors that have made it this far. To close this speech, I would like to once again welcome you to Malang, I wish you a wonderful two-day seminar, and I look forward to learning new insights. Thank you very much. Wassalamualaikum Wr Wb. List of Committees are available in this pdf.