Households Without Access to Adequate and Affordable Housing

 In 2019, 43.49% of Indonesian households did not have access to adequate and affordable housing.

The highest being in Bangka Belitung at 73.84% and the lowest was in DI Yogyakarta at 18.39%.

According to BPS projection of 2010 census, there were 68,700,700 households in Indonesia in 2019.

That means there are more than 29.8 million households in Indonesia living in inadequate housing.

With average household member 3.9 person per household in national scale, then it's equal to more than 116 million persons.

In DKI Jakarta as the Capital City, the number was 65.75% in 2019.

That means there were 1,8 million households without access to adequate and affordable housing in DKI Jakarta or equal to almost 6.7 million persons (3.8 person per household average).

Definition of Adequate and Affordable Housing is a house with access to:

• Proper drinking water source.
• Proper sanitation.
• Sufficient living space (floor area >= 7.2 sqm per capita).
• Proper roof, floor, and wall condition.

Public Housing Scheme Survey

I am currently collecting informations regarding Public Housing schemes for the purpose of  learning and comparative study.

Such informations are scattered all over the places and are changing over time, so I think it is best to try to gather informations from the crowd. I invite Urban Planning and Urban Design practitioners, teachers, students, government officials, or anyone with the knowledge to fill in the form below or to share the survey to your friends or colleagues.

Moratorium of New Town Development in Java Island

BACKGROUND

Java is the most populated island on earth. With land area around 139,000 square kilometer, Java island is house for more than 151 millions population, more than half of overall Indonesian population.

That population as well as household numbers are increasing consistently, which also means the increase of housing and food needs.

Man

Man is, has always been, and will always be, the synthesis of the remnants of their past. While their consciousness, their self-awareness, the illusive free will; is an almost non-existent tiny speck of antitheses in the stormy ocean of history.

Moratorium New Town di Pulau Jawa - SEKARANG!

Pada bagian sebelumnya (Moratorium New Town di Pulau Jawa) kita telah membahas bahwa pada suatu titik, akan diperlukan Moratorium Pengembangan New Town di pulau Jawa. Di bagian ini kita akan membahas kapan waktu yang tepat. Untuk mencoba menjawab pertanyaan tersebut, ada beberapa hal yang perlu dipertimbangkan.

On Superclusters

New Town Developments, which usually dominated by Landed Residential programs, is a contemporary reality that we can't deny. There might be argumentations against their existence, but in the meantime they are there, they are big, and they are growing.

One of the Landed Residential typology that usually is offered by New Town Developments is Supercluster concept. That is multiple Clusters within one larger Cluster. One Subcluster is usually ranging from 3 to 5 hectares in size, which make one Supercluster with 4 or more Subclusters ranging around 12 to 60 hectares in size.

A typical Supercluster Scheme

A Cluster in general offers exclusivity, privacy, and maintained Residential character within its boundaries, below are the positive and negative qualities of Supercluster concept.

Moratorium New Town di Pulau Jawa

Jawa adalah pulau dengan populasi terbanyak di muka bumi. Dengan area sekitar 139 ribu kilometer persegi, pulau Jawa menampung lebih dari 151 juta penduduk, lebih dari setengah populasi Indonesia secara keseluruhan.

Kota, Ekstraksi, Eksploitasi, dan Komoditas

Sudah jamak diketahui bahwa lingkungan terbangun dan infrastruktur adalah salah satu sarana untuk melakukan eksploitasi dan ekstraksi Sumber Daya Alam dan Sumber Daya Manusia. Tetapi bagaimana dengan Sumber Daya Ruang? Dan bagaimana dengan peran kota dalam kegiatan ekstraksi dan eksploitasi tersebut? Diskusi ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasinya secara singkat.

Catatan: Cukup disadari bahwa dalam banyak hal tulisan di ini tidak cukup tajam, tidak cukup dalam, dan di beberapa tempat tidak betul-betul yakin juga dengan apa yang dituliskan. Tetapi sekalipun demikian tetap dituliskan juga, dengan sedikit compang-camping dan menyimpang dari bahasan inti, karena memang ditujukan sebagai suatu studi, suatu pemantik untuk diskusi atau pemikiran lebih jauh lagi.

Map of Why: Ugly River Side of Jakarta

This article will be a simple causality exploration of why (some) public spaces in Jakarta are (still) ugly, in this case the river.

Common discussions on the theme tend to be too simplistic to the level of condescending and fatalistic, it's not giving any clue to what can be done to improve the situation. In this discussion we are trying a more thorough causality exploration on why (some) public spaces in Jakarta are (still) ugly. We will take river side of Jakarta as an example.

The river is ugly because the river is treated as dumpster because the river is seen as backyard because the river is ugly, or vice versa, it brings us nowhere.

Cycling as First Mile in Jakarta through Secondary & Tertiary Roads

This writing is triggered by an article that was written by a colleague of mine, Daniel Caesar Pratama: Considering Cycling as A Mode of Commuting in Jakarta: A GIS Analysis Exercise.

He used GIS to do spatial analyses to show that when we integrate cycling infrastructure with mass transit system in Jakarta, the coverage area of the mass transit will be increased to 80%. The summary points from his article were:

• Cycling has a huge potential to be a sustainable, resilient, affordable and robust mode of transportation.
• Cycling is best positioned as the first-mile last-mile solution rather than as the main transportation system.
• Cycling as transportation should be done leisurely and comfortable, therefore 4 km (5–15 minutes of cycling) from transit to destination is preferable.
• By optimizing cycling infrastructures to cater the cycling radius below 4km, cycling should not compete with online taxi bikes nor walking.
• Integrating cycling with the mass transit such as MRT, KRL, and TransJakarta increases their service area to cover 80% of Jakarta.
• Cycling infrastructures should be prioritized to be integrated into stations that serve the most populated and are able to reach the most destinations.
• By utilizing GIS spatial analysis, we can create a powerful tool to have better-informed decisions about the shaping of our city.

Following that article, Daniel, together with Adam Nurilman – his old friend, and Urban+ Institute held a series of workshops to explore the idea, in partnership with XDS Lab and Somia CX. I had the opportunity to join one of the workshop sessions as team member of the first team. In this writing I'll try to elaborate and structure a bit more the idea that I submitted to the workshop.

The Problem

I am not a commuter cyclist, so when the workshop put forth a question of how to make cycling be more possible for first and last mile transportation mode in Jakarta, integrated with transit system (such as BRT, LRT, MRT, and/or Commuter Line), the first thing that I did was to imagine how would it felt like to cycle (especially) the first mile of commuting in Jakarta – from home to the nearest or strategic transit point. Let’s examine the underlying situation.

In general, Jakarta is a very cluster-fragmented city. Though most of the neighborhoods are not exactly clusters by definition, but most of the neighborhoods are arranged like an almost closed circuit with minimal accessibility, with labyrinth-like road network, and some (many) times are located inside or in-between yet another clustered neighborhoods. Though it might not be relevant to this discussion, the reason for that condition might be single use (residential) zoning system that are still being implemented up until today.