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The Need for Affordable Urban Settlement in Tebet - Jakarta Indonesia: Challenge and Opportunity

Budi, Arlius Putra

The affordable settlement is a problem that faced by several countries, especially on its urban including Jakarta. The rapid growth of people in Jakarta will increase the number of settlement need. The more demand of land for settlement, the higher the price of land will be. This paper aims to extract relevant information about urban settlement issues regarding the need of the affordable urban settlement in Jakarta and make a recommendation to solve it. We collected some data on urban issues which is based on the characteristics of urban settlement in Jakarta. In this case, not all people can afford to have proper settlement. Only those who could afford will have a good house. The government built ‘rusun’ towers to provide an appropriate settlement for lower income families. However, there are many issues that must be addressed in order to make towers as a sustainable settlement. The issues that relevant to be discussed is whether the ‘rusun’ unit has a comfortable space for household, for social interaction between the inhabitants, for safety and health standards. ‘Rusun’ is one solution of settlement for the poor in Jakarta from Government. By applying an integrated affordable urban settlement in Jakarta and adapted to the existing inhabitants needs, we are optimistic that the need of affordable settlement for the poor can be resolved.