Abstract:
Foreign cooperation in the form of City Diplomacy has been growing rapidly in the world, as well as in Indonesia. Sister City program is the term used for foreign cooperative relationships between cities by Jakarta Capital City Government which became a phenomenon that is impressive for foreign cooperation development that able to touch Local Governments layer. Sister City Program has an objective to assist each other. The cities together compiling the programs that are beneficial to the development of the city, or it can be said according to the needs of each city. Furthermore, this thesis will analyze how effective and efficient the Sister City Program implemented by Jakarta - Rotterdam in 2008 – 2014. Rotterdam as a city which was successful in its urban development has pulled Jakarta to be able to work well together in helping Jakarta to accelerate the development of city. This thesis will use an integrated analysis that includes principles; Consistency, Mutually benefiting, Incidental Evaluation, and Innovation. Based on the existing primary data, this thesis will produce results that describe the analysis of the effectiveness and efficiency of Sister City Program that held by Jakarta - Rotterdam.
