Model of Community-based Housing Development (CBHD) of Bedah Kampung Program in Surakarta Indonesia

Abstract

Urban Slums settlement or informal settlement is characterized by substandard houses with inadequate access to safe water sanitation and other infrastructure; insecure residential status; poor quality of house structure and insufficient living area. This is an urban phenomenon indicating poverty, where in fact most of urban poor lives in slums area. The approach of housing policy has shifted from provision to sustainable development and recently, integration with poverty alleviation strategy. Community- based Housing Development (CBHD) is one of Housing Delivery System in Indonesia, which is based on Community Empowerment to be one of the instrument for poverty alleviation. This research aims for firstly, identify the process of implementation of Bedah Kampung Program in Surakarta Indonesia; secondly, summarize model from the process of implementtion; and thirdly analyzes implications of Bedah Kampung Program for sustainable housing development. Method used in this research wasinductive approach with qualitative analysis by interviewing the head of POKJA (Working Group) Bedah Kampung as Community-based Organization, which is formed to conduct the program. The result of the research shows that Bedah Kampung Program has contributed to sustainable housing development of the area in the indicator of improvement of livability standard of human settlement; Regional development for maintaining integrated development of facility and function; development of institutional capacity for mobilization of resources on housing and human settlements; development of institutional capacity for mobilization of resources on housing and human settlements enhancement of community participation in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of plans and programmes. However, indicator of achievement of Human Development Indext in terms of economic improvement has not been achieved yet.