Communication Model for Sustainable Development of Public Transportation Infrastructure In West Sumatra Nora Eka Putri 1* Aldri Frinaldi 2 Adil Mubarak 3 1,2,3 Faculty of Social Sciences, Universitas Negeri Padang, Padang, Indonesia * Corresponding author. Email: noraekaputri@fis.unp.ac.id ABSTRACT Implementation of public infrastructures by the Government should pay attention to the synergy of various parties of the central government with local governments as well as coordination with the community. But the fact that the development of public infrastructures in West Sumatera had problems in land procurement due to the un optimal communication from the government to the community in the land procurement phase. The research aims to establish a model of communication of sustainable development of public transportation infrastructure in West Sumatera. The research approach used is a mixed approach that starts with a qualitative approach and is followed by a sequential exploratory design. The qualitative approach by digging the phenomenon of government, community, private, and academics related to the focus of research. The focus of this research is on the on-going development of public infrastructures of the toll road section of Padang- Sicincin. The results showed that the on-going communication model that awakened was an integrative communication model consisting of assessment; Planning; action and reflection are synonymous with all phases in the procurement of land for the construction of the transportation infrastructure of the Padang- Sicincin section in West Sumatra so that the end awakened good communication between the government actors, developers, and communities affected by the construction of the Padang-Sicincin toll road. Keywords:Communication, development, sustainable, infrastructure, transportation 1. INTRODUCTION The trend of infrastructure development in Indonesia always leaves problems. The construction of road infrastructure for the public good also leaves problems for the community, such as economic, social, and cultural problems [1], [2]. In West Sumatra, the construction of Padang- Pekanbaru toll road consists of five sections, namely Padang- Sicincin, Sicincin- Payakumbuh, Payakumbuh- Pangkalan- Pangkalan- Bangkinang, and Bangkinang- Pekanbaru. Padang- Pekanbaru toll road can save costs, in the terms of both power and fuel used. Also, it can reduce the load distance that is usually traveled in 7- 8 hours to 3-4 hours. (cited from http://m.bisnis.com/sumatra/ by Padang Pariaman Regent Ali Mukhni retrieved 18 March 2019 at 11:20). However, this opinion is not fully accepted by the public, because people think the existence of toll roads will kill their economy. Construction of Padang- Pekanbaru Toll Road has stalled over the past year due to constraints in land acquisition. Padang- Sicincin toll road is 28 kilometers long (CNN Indonesia, June 2019/accessed July 23, 2019). Padang- Pekanbaru Toll Road, especially on Padang- Sicincin section is 4.2 km long, its development is still constrained due to land acquisition. The public does not accept the price set by The Appraisal Team. The price estimated by Tim Appraisal is well below the average selling price of the land. The public considers that the price of compensation provided is still too low (Bisnis.com, January 2019/accessed on March 15, 2019). From the issue aforementioned, it can be seen that there is a communication problem between the central government both the Ministry of PU PR, BPN and the local government (both West Sumatra Province and Padang Pariaman Regency Government), as well as the community in infrastructure development that resulted in the delayed completion of schedule as set in the implementation of the toll road construction. Furthermore, Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 510 6th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICOSAPS 2020) Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL. This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license -http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. 103