STUDY OF URBAN KAMPONG’S ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES TOWARDS INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE CITY (CASE STUDY: BANDUNG CITY)

• Main Author: Ramadhan, Afrizal
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/33548
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

In Indonesia, housing areas are one of the largest types of urban land use, some of them grows informally. These informal housing areas are often referred as urban kampongs. Urban kampong are an alternative place of residence for low-income people in urban areas. Basically, urban kampung have several characteristics, such as high-density housing, built spontaneous (unplanned) and informally or independently by the community, tend to be slum areas, and often associated with various problems in the physical or social aspects of the environment. In the midst of informality and slum conditions, the existence of urban kampung basically cannot be separated or marginalized in spatial planning or urban development. The sustainability and existence of urban kampongs is threatened by the function of non-housing activities which isconsidered to be more economically profitable. One of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) strives to create cities and settlements that are safe, resilient, inclusive and sustainable. In the context of inclusive and sustainable development, all citizens have rights to the city, especially in the context of housing needs and provision as one of the primary needs that have to be addressed and prioritized by government. All of urban residents, including low-income and urban dwellers, have the same right to live a decent life, affordable housing, a healthy residential environment and an equal distribution of public services and basic infrastructure (water, sanitation, electricity, etc). In this context, the existence of urban kampong which dominated urban-housing areas and provide residential areafor many low-income communities, needs attention in urban development. Urban development should involve all community groups and must be oriented towards the poor so that urban housing areasare economically, socially and environmentally sustainable and inclusive for all citizens (city for all). The purpose of this study is to formulate generic strategies and policies towards urbang kampong quality improvement, both socially and environmentally. Using quantitative-descriptive methods based on spatial analysis and content analysis, this paper will explain the distribution and characteristics of urban kampongs in Bandung city, elaborate kampong improvement programs, and identify basic concepts and strategies to improve the quality of urban kampong environments towards inclusive and sustainable development. From this study we can learned that various urban-kampong’s quality improvement programs from 1960’s to the present have not succeeded in resolving slums area. This study also concluded that more than 60% of urban kampong in Bandung belong to the category of slums area.