Abstract
The study is identifying factors influencing the low-income community in urban slum settlements in South Sumatra. The data utilized is primary data is taken through surveys and in-depth interviews. The samples were taken from 115 respondents purposively in the three cities of Palembang, Prabumulih, and Pagar Alam that are receiving benefits from the KOTAKU Program. The methods utilized are descriptive qualitative and quantitative approaches by applying multiple regression models. This study's findings indicate that jointly the variables of education level, age, family members, income expectations, and work types significantly affect the low-income communities' income level. Likewise, partially the education level variables, the family members, income expectations, and types of work positively and significantly affect income level. In contrast, the age variable has a negative and significant effect on the low-income community's income level in urban slums of South Sumatra.
Highlights
The development of economic activities in urban areas is undeniably directly proportional to the community's welfare level
Socio-economic conditions of low-income communities in urban slums According to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), slums are areas of a residence inhabited by communities in slum settlements that occupy temporary buildings, no access to safe water to drink, lack of proper sanitation facilities, and inadequate environmental conditions
The following explained the income level based on socioeconomic characteristics of household head in urban slums in South Sumatra, using the cross-tabulation as follows: Table 2
Summary
The development of economic activities in urban areas is undeniably directly proportional to the community's welfare level. The urban economy's stretching is the main attraction as one reason for the individual to urbanization (Hussain & Imitiyaz, 2019; Leon, 2008) This condition raises the problems such as limited city capacity, crime, cleanliness/rubbish, health, and slums in the urban areas. The settlements can be viewed from land, housing, community, basic facilities, and infrastructure, which are intertwined in a socio-economic and cultural system both in a slum environment ecosystem itself or a city ecosystem. According to Sastra, Suparno, & Marlina (2006), several dimensions of slums that must always receive serious attention are land issues in urban areas, basic infrastructure and facilities issues, socio-economic problems, socio-cultural issues, urban spatial issues, accessibility issues (Yuliana et al, 2017)
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