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Leapfrogging is a phenomenon in which developing countries—whose technological systems are not yet as fully established as developed economies—can adopt advanced technological systems to address current environmental issues. This report assesses Bogor’s capacity for a transition into a Water Sensitive City (WSC) transition and recommends enabling strategies using the lens of leapfrogging.By doing so, it is hoped that Bogor and other Indonesian cities may avoid features of water servicing models seen in developed economies that represent unsustainable ‘dead ends’, and adopt more holistic and sustainable water technologies and management approaches that are based on WSC principles.

This report presents a profile and benchmark of the water system in the Greater Bogor region of Indonesia as part of the Australia-Indonesia Centre’s Urban Water Cluster (UWC).The tool used for benchmarking is the Water Sensitive Cities Index (WSC Index), developed by the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities. It enables diagnosis of key strengths and improvement needs for 34 indicators across 7 goals to inform prioritisation of actions and provide a framework for ongoing monitoring and evaluation of a city’s water sensitive performance.