THE INTERPERSONAL DISTANCE ANALYSIS OF PHYSICAL DISTANCING IMPLEMENTATION IN A PUBLIC SPACE A CASE STUDY AT “MAKAM BUNG KARNO” TOURISM AREA, BLITAR

• Main Author: Dzakaaul Islam, Hilmi
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/67132
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

“Makam Bung Karno” tourism area is part of the public space and tourist attractions in Blitar. One of the roles of public space is to accommodate human activities and interpersonal interactions. During the Covid-19 new normal era, “Makam Bung Karno” implemented health protocols, one of them is physical distancing which has aims to reduce human physical contact and the environment to break the spread of Covid-19. The physical distancing health protocols is still a new thing in the human social activities habits. Beside that, public space must be noticed because it can create high crowdedness but the health protocols implementation still not optimal. It can be dangerous because it’s related to the human health safety in their activities during the Covid-19 new normal era. The purpose of the research is to describe the physical distance and spatial relation in human interpersonal activities on the application of physical distancing health protocols in “Makam Bung Karno” tourism area. This research uses a qualitative methodology with a case study approach. The data analysis process applies the study of proxemics, behavior settings and spatial setting that illustrated in behavior mapping to describe phenomenon in interpersonal and space as part of human activity. The results of this research is the implementation of physical distance health protocols in “Makam Bung Karno” tourism area isn’t applied well, because most of the interpersonal distances dimension are less than 1 meter. The space elements have an affect to the human behavior on their activities while using a space. The research also find 3 (three) aspects with the attributes that affect to the interpersonal distance and space that can be research novelty, there’re personal distance determining confidences, safety and comfortness; social distance is influenced by sociality, culture and purpose; space and activities, there are activity, accessibility and attractiveness.