Collaborative Governance in Handling Traffic Problems in the City of Surabaya

Surabaya has traffic problems that call for very complex handling quickly and correctly. Traffic police as main authority traffic have limited in reaching the entire area throughout Surabaya. Support the other hand (private sector and society) to be inseparable in handling traffic problems in practice collaborative governance. Research carried out with the methods descriptive with a qualitative approach through a focus of study to the collaborative governance between Police Resort City of Surabaya, Radio Suara Surabaya, and society. Study analysis used 5 indicators of the process of collaborative governance such as face to face dialogue, trust-building, commitment to the process, shared understanding, and intermediate outcomes that were implemented positively. This collaboration is carried out in handling traffic in Surabaya, in the form that stakeholders are involved in analyzing community traffic information so that it can carry traffic in the city of Surabaya. An important conclusion in this study is the contribution of the private sector and society to the very important problem of handling traffic in the city of Surabaya. However, recommendations for several weaknesses in practice collaborative governance is still needed.