The Characteristics of Residents at Low Cost Housing in Jakarta - Indonesia and their Culture to Green Principles

Abstract:

Low cost housing in Jakarta – Indonesia is provided by the government for low-income people in urban areas, in line with the program to redevelop or renew slum areas or densely populated neighborhoods for supporting sustainable living environment in urban area. Sustainable living environment will be achived if people who live in low cost housing have the culture which support and apply green principles. The purpose of research is to give knowledge about the change of life-cycle and life stage of low-income people as the first residents as long as they stay in vertical housing, and their culture to green principles. The research objectives are to determine the characteristics of residents as urban people and the factors which influenced, to know how their culture to apply green principles. The research was conducted at four low cost housing in Jakarta. The results showed that currently the families still have characters as informal-traditional, nuclear family and extended family. The residents generally are as employee or entrepreneur in informal sector, and still as low income family. Demographic, socio-culture, and economic are the factors which influenced life-cycle and life stage of low-income people as urban society. People who live in low cost housing still have traditional culture which support to green principles.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 747)
• Pages: 105-108
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.747.105
• Online since: March 2015
• Authors: Nina Nurdiani*
• Keywords: Characteristics of Residents, Culture, First Residents, Green Principles, Low Cost Housing

References

[1] Wahyu, Y., Potret Urbanisasi Jakarta, Kompas, Gramedia Press, Jakarta, 17 November (2007).

[2] Suparlan, P., Kemiskinan di Perkotaan, Penerbit Sinar Harapan dan Yayasan Obor Indonesia, Jakarta, (1984).

[3] Evers, H.D., Produksi Subsistensi dan Massa Apung, Jakarta. Sosiologi Perkotaan: Urbanisasi dan Sengketa Tanah di Indonesia dan Malaysia, Cetakan Keempat, PT. Pustaka LP3ES Indonesia, Jakarta, 1995, p.91 – 103.

DOI: 10.55606/jebaku.v2i2.115

[4] Karyono, T.H., Green Architecture Pengantar Pemahaman Arsitektur Hijau di Indonesia, Rajawali Pers, Jakarta, 2010, p.197 – 213.

[5] Bahri, S., Rumah Susun sebagai Bentuk Budaya Bermukim Masyarakat Modern. Jurnal Sistem Teknik Industri, 6, No. 3, (2005) 97 – 102.

[6] Kim, T.K., Horner M.W., dan Marans, R.W., Life Cycle and Environmental Factors in Selecting Residential and Job Locations, Housing Studies, 20, Issue 3, (2005) 457 – 473.

DOI: 10.1080/02673030500062335

[7] Turner, J.F.C., Housing Priorities, Settlement Patterns, and Urban Development in Modernizing Countries, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 34, Issue 6, (1968) 354 – 363.

DOI: 10.1080/01944366808977562

[8] Dwyer, D.J., People and Housing in Third World Cities, Perspectives on the problem of spontaneous settlements, Longman Group Limited, Great Britain, (1979).

[9] Sastrosasmita, S. and Amin, A.T.M.N., Housing Needs of Informal Sector Workers: The Case of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Habitat International, 14, Issue 4, (1990) 75-88.

DOI: 10.1016/0197-3975(90)90006-m

[10] Serageldin, I., The Architecture of Empowerment, People, Shelter and Livable Cities, Academic Editions, London, (1997).

[11] Kusrimoyo, Faktor-faktor yang Mempengaruhi Preferensi Konsumen Memilih Rumah Susun di Tebet dan Cawang, Tesis Program Magister Ekonomi, Universitas Indonesia, (2002).

DOI: 10.21632/perwira.4.1.1-12

[12] Budiharjo, Eko Lingkungan Binaan dan Tata Ruang Kota, Penerbit Andi, Yogyakarta, 1999, pp.42-43.