The way to encourage Green Building in Indonesia

Nowadays, in several major cities in Indonesia, such as Jakarta and Surabaya, many have tall buildings and still continue to do the construction of high rise buildings. There are several factors that affect it, such as the limited land for housing, economic growth, migration in search of employment opportunities in the city, and other factors. The purpose of this paper will describe the role of government, Green Building Council Indonesia (GBCI), public and private companies which will support the implementation of Indonesia “Go Green� program on sustainable building and construction. Furthermore, collecting primary data for preliminary survey is using a questionnaire to determine people perception about green building. The secondary data is collecting from government, public private company, and GBCI. Those data is analysed by SPSS version 17 and technical analysis is Cramer correlation. The result showed that government has laws and regulations to support sustainable development. Developers, contractors, private and public companies will be involved to construct green buildings and green homes. GBCI as an organization that provides an assessment of the design, construction and operation of building systems with a rating of GREENSHIP, also include an assessment of the existing buildings and integrated with new technologies. The preliminary survey result showed that people do not know much about the role of GBCI, but they believe that GBCI can perform their duties in green building certification. They also believe that University can better provide education about sustainable development program to resolve global warming.