Abstract
Covid-19 pandemic spreads more widely in Indonesia. As a developing country with high population growth, urban areas in Indonesia are getting denser along with the high urbanization rate. Limited land in urban areas generates slums, for example, in Surakarta. The slum management phenomenon in Surakarta, Indonesia, is the object of this case study research using Community-driven development (CDD) theory. Data on public participation in slum environment arrangement and management in Surakarta was collected using in-depth interviews, focus group discussion, and observation on and documentation related to the phenomenon. The result of the research showed some stages of slum arrangement in Surakarta: planning using FGD method conducted by citizens and stakeholders; implementing slum arrangement and management through repairing irrigation channel, providing feasible sanitation facility, building public open space, and developing Liquid Waste Processing Installation, and reviewing and evaluating the implementation of slum arrangement and management in Surakarta. The environment cleanliness and health maintaining behaviour is important to be habituated in urban communities to suppress Covid-19 transmission rate.
Highlights
The broader spread of the coronavirus exerts a considerable effect on society’s life
Majority Covid-19 positive confirmed cases occur in urban areas
Some factors make the city at high risk of Covid-19 transmission: dense population, no reasonable distance between residents’ houses, and no consciousness of maintaining the cleanliness of residence environment
Summary
The broader spread of the coronavirus exerts a considerable effect on society’s life. Covid-19 can be transmitted through a droplet of people infected with the virus and through objects surrounding the patients. It is important for people to maintain selfcleanliness and the surrounding environment. People are appealed to wear a mask anytime they go out of home, to wash hands using soap and hand sanitiser periodically to prevent the virus from attaching to hand, because the hand is the human’s most productive body part, and to do physical distancing. Healthy and clean-living behaviour is the point the people should consider to improve the quality of health in the pandemic era. People are recommended to keep obeying the health protocol specified. Through healthy and clean-living behaviour, people can prevent and suppress the Covid-19 transmission rate in Indonesia
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