'Kampung' in Kahayan Urban Riverside Area, Palangka Raya City, Indonesia

Abstract

The reality urban property in Indonesia is complex and varied and rarely fits the perceptions of outsiders. If we are to offer appropriate assistance to poor people struggling against the crisis, we must first build a good understanding of the lives of those we aim to assist. This study concerns with this issue and aims better understand how people respond when incomes decline, jobs are increasingly scarce, and spending on food and services increases. This study aims to give a complete picture of the situation in the field, particularly on the way in which the urban poor ‘kampung’ respond to city development. It presents various mechanisms and coping strategies developed by the poor situation. Research method used a combined method (mix-used method) based on field observation and questioner with 100 sample represented on Kampung Pahandut. This research consist of three stages of research: (i) preparation stage; (ii) the field observation stage; and (iii) post field observation stage. The analysis used lesson learn from people of Kampung Pahandut in economic aspects. This economic aspect of kampung can prove of integration between kampung to city to supported of sustainable kampung urban riverside area in the future.


 


 


Keywords: Analysis, Formal, Informal, Integration, Kampung, Palangka Raya, Settlement, Urban

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