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International Conference | Bari - Lecce, Italy Session V - VI SUSTAINABILITY PROPOSAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF POPULATION, AFFLUENCE AND DEVELOPMENT ON INDONESIA Mahbouba M. Karima1 & Hasim Altan1 1 Sustainable Design of the Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering & IT, British University in Dubai, UAE, [email protected] / [email protected] Abstract The growth of a country depends on political factors, economic activity, and natural resources. Countries with rich natural resources such as fossil fuel, gold, forests, land are fortunate to have natural resources supporting the country’s economy. Maintaining these natural resources need good strategic planning to preserve and manage its growth. Growing economy raise living standards for people nonetheless pollution and exploration took on new dimension leading to massive population growth worldwide and economic expansion, Hoewever, this sadly also brought all the environmental problems with it. This paper aims to look into the environmental impacts caused by population, affluence and development in Indonesia. A sustainable package has been proposed in an attempt to solve the key problem of poverty, which has a direct impact on Indonesia’s environmental degradation. The proposed sustainability package targets three key factors of the country’s sustainable development: (1) Stable number of population (2) Stable resource consumption (3) Stewardship. In order to better tackle the issue and to provide better solutions, a systematic review and analysis was carried out looking at this as a recurring cycle that starts with high fertility rates and ends with environmental degradation, which is also determined to be the root of the problem. The paper highlights the importance of stewardship and it’s role in promoting recourse management that leads to control the consumption pattern. Moreover, the study will present a series of case studies as a reference to the sustainable package. Keywords Social and Economic Sustainability, Sustainable Cycle, Population Growth, Sustainable Stewardship, Environmental Degradation. 389