Community Capacity in Providing Neighborhood Unit-scale Social Infrastructure in Supporting Surakarta Child Friendly

Abstract

The top-down approach cause the programs of child friendly social infrastructure development uncertain in its sustainability. This paper used scoring technique in identifying the neighborhood characteristics and community capacity in providing child friendly social infrastructure in Surakarta. The neighborhood characteristics were viewed from the provision of social infrastructure service capacity, then the community capacity was measured from the level of participation in the stage of development process. The results showed that the community had capacity in providing child friendly social infrastructure and its supporting facility, even though it could not entirely attend the level of degree of citizen power.