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N
- The shape is curvilinear due to the influence of natural factor
of River Batanghari -
The orientation designation of settlement is towards the North and South toward the river.
- There is a footpath which is the branches of this main street.
- The street stretch to East West.
  The shape of main street is linear
N
- The street stretch to East West
- The shape is linear influenced by the orientation Designation
of  settlement  which  is  tend  toward  the  North  South  toward the  street.  There  is  a  footpath,  which  is  the  branch  of  this
main street.
- End of street started from Aur Duri Bridge and in the East part
is bordered from the region of neighbor Tanjung Raden. -
Now  a  day  the  changing  design  of  street  in  the  region  of Tanjung Pasir Sekoja is the street dimension change, due to
the  situation  and  the  condition  of  traffic  vehicle  at  the moment. Making the possibility to enlarge the street.
2. Pathways At  the  settlement  in  Tanjung  Pasir  Sekoja  there  are
footpaths stretching to North South connected to the main street. The footpaths are in the East and West side between the building
of  settlement  or  other  buildings  with  the  majority  having orientation  toward  the  North  and  South  Bank  of  River
Batanghari.
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  Sample 1
Generally  the  streets  are  stretching  to  North  South because  the  design  of  building  formed  along  this  street  are
oriented  toward  the  North  and  South.  The  length  of  street  is  2 meters. There is branching from the street and the shape of street
is linear connected toward the main street.
  Sample 2
N
The  main  street  formed  stretching  to  East  West,  due  to the  building  orientation  along  this  street  is  toward  North  and
South.  The  length  of  the  street  is  2  meters  with  a  linear  shape. There is branching from those streets.
ENCLOSED
Indonesia  is  consisted  of  various  ethnic  groups  with cultural  diversity,  in  addition  for  this,  the  settlement  especially
traditional houses are also diversity in the design, from the simple shape  until  unique  shape,  either  the  building  can  stand
independently or group, each of them has its own characteristics. The  traditional  settlement  is  the  reflection  of  social  and  life  of
society in one area.
Settlement  pattern  on  Sekoja  area  divided  into  three, which are grouping pattern, spreading pattern and linear pattern.
N
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pattern  on  riverside  settlement  and  grid  pattern  on  shore settlement, oriented toward road surroundings. Building mass and
form  divided  into  two,  which  are  linear  pattern  developed  on Batanghari riverside settlement, while grid pattern form due to the
building row arrangement an roads intersection on shore.
The the structure of the Jambinese Melayu settelement is the  unity  of  political,  commercial,  social  which  is  reflected on  his
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PEMBANGUNAN PERUMAHAN DAN PEMUKIMAN NASIONAL :
PERMASALAHAN, HARAPAN DAN TANTANGANNYA
Mindo Siagian
I.  Pendahuluan
Pembangunan  Nasional  pada  hakikatnya  upaya-upaya yang  ditujukan  bagi  perwujudan  manusia  Indonesia  seutuhnya.
Sementara  itu,  manusia  Indonesia  seutuhnya  adalah  manusia yang berkeadilan, sehat, makmur dan sejahtera. Secara khusus,
Undang-Undang Dasar 1945 Pasal 28 H mengamanatkan bahwa
“setiap orang berhak hidup sejahtera lahir batin, bertempat tinggal pada  lingkungan  hidup  yang  baik  dan  sehat  serta  berhak
memperoleh pelayanan kesehatan”. Pembangunan perumahan dan permukiman adalah salah
satu syarat bagi perwujudan manusia Imdonesia yang seutuhnya. Rumah  merupakan  salah  satu  kebutuhan  dasar  manusia,  tidak
hanya  sebagai  tempat  berlindung,  tetapi rumah  juga  mempunyai makna  penting  dalam  pengembangan  kehidupan  sosial  dan
ekonomi bagi sipemiliknya.
Dibahagian  lain,  Undang-undang  Nomor  41992  tentang Perumahan  Permukiman  pasal  29  menyebutkan  bahwa  “setiap
warga  negara  mempunyai  hak  dan  kesempatan  yang  sama  dan seluas-luasnya  untuk  berperan  serta  dalam  pembangunan
perumahan dan permukiman yang layak dan terjangkau.
Karena  itu,  terpenuhinya  kebutuhan  perumahan  dan permukiman  merupakan  tuntutan  dan  kebutuhan  masyarakat
Indonesia.  Pembangunan  perumahan  dan  permukiman  di Indonesia menghadapi permasalahan dan tantangan yang sangat
berat.  Apalagi  selama  ini,  ada  kesan  bahwa  pembangunan permukiman  dan  perumahan  cenderung  timpang.  Tidak  ada
keselarasan.  Dinamika  kehidupan  dan  kebijakan  pemerintah serta  tuntutan  dunia  usaha  turut  serta  memberi  kontribusinya  di
dalamnya.
Kedepan,  masalah  pemenuhan  kebutuhan  perumahan dan  permukiman  akan  semakin  berat.  Diperkirakan  rata-rata laju
kebutuhan  perumahan  setiap  tahunnya  sebesar  800.00  unit rumah.  Laju  pertumbuhan  perumahan  tersebut  dipredeksi  akan
terus  naik  seiring  dengan  pertumbuhan  penduduk.  Kondisi  ini diperburuk  dengan  terdapatnya  14,5  juta  unit  rumah  28,22
persen  dari  rumah  yang  ada  berkualitas rendah  dan  tidak layak huni.  Biasa  dibayangkan,  jika  tidak  ada  upaya  serius  dalam
mengatasinya,  dikhawatirkan  akn  terjadi  ledakan  yang  sangat
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permukiman tersebut. Secara  umum,  persoalan pembangunan  perumahan  dan
permukiman di
Indonesia berkaitan
dengan berbagai
permasalahan dasar,
seperti :
masalah pembiayaan,
pertimbangan  sosial  budaya,  nilai-nilai  arsitektur  atau  issue pembangunan yang tidak relevan.
Dilain  pihak,  pembangunan  dan  permukiman  sering berbenturan  dengan  pengelolaan  lingkungan.  Masalah-masalah
lingkungan,  seperti  penyediaan  air  bersih,  pengelolaan  sampah, sanitasi,  jalan  lingkungan,  drainase  sering  terabaikan  dalam
pembangunan  perumahan  dan  permukiman.  Hal  ini  disebabkan karena manajemen pembangunan yang diterapkan tidak efisien.
Mengingat  permasalahan  pembangunan  perumahan  dan permukiman  yang  sangat  beragam  dan  kompleks,  maka  dalam
penanganannya,  integralistik  dan  holistik.  Disamping  itu, pengembangan  kepranataan  dan  instrumen  pembangunan
perumahan
dan permukiman
harus berorientasi
kepda kepentingan seluruh lapisan masyarakat.
II.  Masalah Dalam
Pembangunan Perumahan
dan Permukiman
Sama  seperti  yang  dihadapi  oleh  negara-negara  lain pembangunan  perumahan  dan  permukiman  di  Indonesia  akan
semakin  berat  seiring  dengan  perjalanan  waktu.  Pertumbuhan penduduk  menjadi  salah  satu  alasan  utamanya.  Berdasarkan
analisis  statistik  pertumbuhan  penduduk  dan  rumah  tangga, diperkirakan  laju  kebutuhan  perumahan  di  Indonesia  setiap
tahunnya  rata-rata  sebesar  800.00  unit  rumah.  Jumlah  tersebut belum termasuk kebutuhan rumah akibat kekurangan atau defisit
rumah backlog yang belum terpenuhi. Sebagai contoh, backlog yang belum terpenuhi hingga akhir 2003 yang lalu mencapai 5,93
juta unit 9,43 persen dari jumlah rumah yang ada
Kondisi tersebut diperburuk dengan terdapatnya 14,5 juta unit rumah 28,22 persen dari rumah yang ada yang kualitasnya
tidak  layak  huni  dan  tersebar  pada  10.065  lokasi  permukiman kumuh dengan luas 47.393 hektar, yang dihuni oleh sekitar 17,2
juta jiwa. Ini baru data yang dicatat secara resmi. Belum lagi ada banyak data tentang kondisi perumahan masyarakat yang belum
terpantau secara jelas.
Hal  ini  telah  lama  disadari.  Namun  hingga  kini  masalah tersebut belum sepenuhnya dapat ditanggulangi. Memang sudah
banyak  program  yang  dicanangkan  pemerintah  untuk  mengatasi tingginya kebutuhan perumahan dan permukiman tersebut. Akan
tetapi kenyataannya masih jauh dari yang kita harapkan. Banyak warga  negara  yang  belum  menempati  rumah  yang  layak  huni.
Alasan klasik masalah pembiayaan selalu mengemuka.
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perumahan  dan  permukiman  di  Indonesia  berkaitan  dengan berbagai  permasalahan  mendasar  ;  yaitu  masalah  pembiayaan
dan  minimnya  lahan  yang  tersedia,  khususnya  diperkotaan. Disamping  itu  masih  ada  masalah-masalah  lain,  seperti  halnya
arsitektur  yang  belum  memenuhi  syarat  perumahan  yang  sehat. Tata  letak  dan  seni  perumahan  yang  sesuai  dengan  kaidah-
kaidah kesehatan cenderung dipinggirkan dan tidak dihiraukan. III.  Tantangan
Dalam Pembangunan
Perumahan dan
Permukiman Masalah  perumahan  dan  permukiman  di  Indonesia  masih
terus  muncul.  Selama  ini  ada  sejumlah  tantangan  dalam pemenuhan kebutuhan perumahan dan permukiman di Indonesia
yang  belum  juga  dapat  dituntaskan.  Beberapa  diantaranya adalah:
Pertama,  masalah  kesenjangan  pelayanan.  Pemenuhan kebutuhan  perumahan  dan  permukiman  bagi  masyarakat  yang
kurang  mampu  belum  mendapat  proporsi  yang  berimbang. Mayoritas  pembangunan  perumahan  dan  permukiman  masih
didominasi  oleh  kepentingan  masyarakat  menengah  keatas. Pada hal, kepentingan seluruh lapisan masyarakat sesungguhnya
harus  mendapat  proporsi  yang  serasi,  seimbang  dan  selaras. Prinsip  berkeadilan  dan  keseimbangan  harus  diterapkan  dalam
pembangunan  perumahan  dan  permukiman.  Pada  hal,  justrtu masyarakat  miskinlah  yang  harus  dibantu  untuk  memenuhi
tuntutan  kebutuhan atas perumahan  dan  permukiman.  Kedepan, paradogma
seperti ini
harus dirubah.
Simiskin harus
diprioritaskan. Kedua,  Pola  pengelolaan  lingkungan  yang  belum  maksimal.
Pembangunan perumahan
dan permukiman
ternyata membutuhkan  dukungan  lingkungan.  Artinya,  lingkungan  dan
perumahan – permukiman harus taat pada hukum lingkungan.
Selama  ini,  pembangunan  perumahan  dan  permukiman cenderung  mengabaikan  keutuhan  lingkungan.  Misalnya,
penyediaan sarana dan prasarana yang buruk. Sarana air bersih sering  pula  tak  dihiraukan.  Demikian  juga  dengan  penataan  dan
pengelolaan
sampah, sanitasi,
sarana jalan,
drainase. Ketidakseriusan  dalam  penataan  dimensi-dimensi  lingkungan
tersebut  telah  secara  sengaja  berdampak  pada  lingkungan perumahan dan permukiman yang tidak sehat.
Disamping penataan lingkungan perumahan, penyediaan ruang hijau dan terbuka bahkan cenderung ditiadakan. Pada hal,
setiap  rumah  selyaknya  harus  menyimpan  dukungan  akan kebutuhan  oksigen.  Pola  seperti  ini  harus  dikedepankan  dalam
pembangunan perumahan kedepan. Ketiga,  Manajemen  pembangunan  yang  tidak  efisien.  Selama  ini
ada  kesan  bahwa  pembngunan  perumahan  dan  permukiman
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kepentingan proyek semata. Pada hal, kualitas bangunan sangat penting dalam  memenuhi kebutuhan akan kenyamanan sipemilik
rumah  dalam  rentang  waktu  yang  relatif  lama.  Mutu  bangunan juga  berkaitan  dengan  peningkatan  kualitas  hidup.  Jika  mutu
bangunan adalah kualitas seadanya, hal ini juga turut serat dalam memperparah
pemenuhan kebutuhan
perumahan dan
permukiman. Keempat,
Masalah kepemilikan
tanah. Tak
mengherankan  bahwa  sengketa  pertanahan  di  Indonesia  sangat banyak,  termasuk  dalam  sengketa  lahan  perumahan.  Hal  ini
disebabkan  karena  penataan  administrasi  pertanahan  belum dilakukan  secara  tertib.  Dengan  demikian,  tak  jarang  lahan
perumahan  menjadi  lahan  didirikannya  bangunan  perumahan tersebut.
IV.  Berbagai Langkah  Untuk  Mengatasi  Masalah  Perumahan
dan Permukiman
Berbagai  langkah  untuk  mengatasi  masalah  perumahan dan  permukiman  di  Indonesia  harus  digagas  secara  kontiniu
tanpa  pernah  berhenti.  Sejumlah  gagasan  layak  diutamakan diantaranya adalah:
Pertama, dukungan
pemerintah. Dukungan
dan komitmen  pemerintah  menempati  posisi  yang  strategis  dalam
pemenuhan  kebutuhan  perumahan  dan  permukiman  bagi masyarakat  luas.  Ketidakmampuan  masyarakat,  seyogianya
diimbangi  dengan  dorongan  dan  dukungan  dari  pemerintah. Adanya kebijakan Strategi Nasional Perumahan dan Permukiman
KSNPP,  jika  benar-benar  dijalankan,  diyakini  akan  menjadi model  yang  efektif  dalam  mengatasi  seluruh  problema  dalam
pembangunan perumahan dan permukiman.
Fungsi  regulasi  pemerintah  untuk  mengatur  masalah penataan
dan pemenuhan
kebutuhan perumahan
dan permukiman  harus  dimaksimalkan.  Cita-cita  agar  seluruh
masyarakat  dapat  menikmati  perumahan  dan  permukiman  yang layak
dan terjangkau
dapat pula
diwujudkan dengan
pembentukan lembaga
yang representative
sebagai penyelenggaraan  pembangunan  perumahan  dan  permukiman
diseluruh wilayah Republik Indonesia. Kedua,
Komitmen pemerintah
untuk mengimplementasikan  Gerakan  Nasional
–  Pengembangan Sejuta  Rumah  GN-PRS  jangan  sampai  berhenti  pada  satu
tahapan.  Gerakan  yang  dicanangkan  pada  tahun  2003  tersebut harus  dijadikan  sebagai  titik  kulminasi  bagi  kebangkitan
pembangunan  perumahan  dan  permukiman  di  Indonesia.  Hal ini penting  sebagai  momentum  untuk  mengajak  semua  pihak  untuk
berpartisipasi  dan  penanganan  masalah-masalah  yang  muncul dalam  pemenuhan  kebutuhan  perumahan  dan  permukiman  bagi
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harus  diatasi  secara  bertahap  hingga  pada  beberapa  tahun kedepan  dimana  mayoritas  masyarakat  Indonesia  sudah
mendapatkan perumahan dan permukiman yang layak.
Ketiga,  Program  Pemilikan  Rumah  Sederhana  Sehat RSH Bersubsidi. Seperti direncanakan bahwa pemerintah akan
mengembangkan  rumah  sederhana  sehat  RSH  yang  disubsidi sebanyak 200.000 unit rumah per tahun. Jika program ini benar-
benar  dijalankan,  tentu  akan  sangat  menolong  bagi  masyarakat khususnya berpenghasilan rendah.
Keempat, agenda-agenda
internasional harus
dimanfaatkan  sebagai  kesempatan  untuk  memenuhi  kebutuhan perumahan dan permukiman bagi seluruh masyarakat Indonesia.
Misalnya Agenda 21 yang  dideklarasikan di Rio de Jeneiro yang berintikan pada rencana yang menyeluruh dari masyarakat dunia,
Negara  serta  pemerintah  untuk  sungguh-sungguh  meningkatkan kualitas permukiman, terutama bagi Negara-negara yang sedang
berkembang. Indonesia sebagai bagian dari Negara berkembang tentu penting untuk mengadopsi dan memanfaatkan kesempatan
atas dukungan masyarakat  internasional tersebut.
Di samping
itu, masih
banyak agenda-agenda
internasional  yang  bisa  dimanfaatkan.  Misalnya  Agenda  Habitat Istambul  1996.  Adapun  agenda  tersebut  telah  menyepakati  :  1
Rumah untuk semua, 2 Memperbaiki pengelolaan permukiman, 3  Meningkatkan  kualitas  tanah  yang  berkelanjutan,  4
Meningkatkan
keterpaduan infratruktur
lingkungan, 5meningkaykan energy dan transportasi yang berkelanjutan, 6
meningkatkan  perencaaan  dan  pengelolaan  kawasan  bencana, 7  meningkatkan  industri  konstruksi.  Penjabaran  agenda  21  ini
terutama  ditujukan  bagi  terselenggaranya  perumahan  untuk semua  orang  serta  mewujudkan  pengembangan  permukiman
yang berkelanjutan.
Kemudian  adanya  Johannesburg  Summit  pada  tahun 2002 yang kemudian dimaknai sebagai penjabaran atau langkah
konkrit  untuk  mengimplementasikan  Agenda  21,  yang  secara khusus  ditujukan  untuk  meningkatkan  taraf  hidup  masyarakat
atau  untuk  menanggulangi  kemiskinan  serta  menyelamatkan sumber daya alam.
V. Penutup
Masalah pemenuhan
kebutuhan perumahan
dan permukiman  di  Indonesia  ternyata  sangat  banyak.  Karena  itu,
diperlukan langkah konkrit untuk mengatasinya. Untuk itu, semua pihak  harus  bersatu  padu  dan  member  partisipasi  aktif.
Pemerintah,  pihak  swasta,  dan  masyarakat  itu  sendiri  harus saling  berkoordinasi  sesuai  dengan  potensi  dan  kemampuan
yang ada pada diri masing-masing.
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A STUDY ON RESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE IN SUBURBAN AREAS OF MEDAN
Case Study: Kelurahan Gedung Johor Kecamatan Medan Johor Kota Medan and Kelurahan Delitua
Kecamatan Namorambe Kabupaten Deli Serdang
Syafiatun Siregar
Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Negeri Medan, Indonesia
Abstract
The  growing  of  urban  population  up  is  acknowledged going  to  cause  tensions  either  rising  up  price  of  land  around  the
urban  region,  increasing  requirement  on  housings,  reducing quality  of  environment,  flood,  traffic  jam  and  so  forth.  Housing
Preference  on  urban  border  region  shall  be  one  of  alternative  in avoiding  any  pressure  resulted  by  the  progress  of  urban.  The
objective of housing preference study on the urban border region is  to  know  factors  influencing  the  rate  of  residing  preference  on
the  border  and  then  to  identify  the  attractive  term  of  location  as housing choice for research.
The  result  of  analysis  with  cross  tabulation  and  by  chi- square test showed that existed relationship between the housing
preference  with  its  road  condition  wide  and  hardness,  still housing  preference  with  the  education  facilities  and  housing
preference  with  a  family  oriented  community  oriented.  This perhaps  conformed  to  the  theories  as  adopted  Beside  it,  it  is
found  other  finding  namely  the  location  region  should  be  free from  flood  must  be  other  alternative  to  prefer    a  location  for
housing choice.
Keywords: housing  preference,  housing  choice,  suburban  area, residential preference
Introduction
The  economy  growing  up  currently  perhaps  cause  the urban run to develop widely, either physically or non-physically. It
is noted that the urban development by physically resulting in the urban  got  developing  rapidly  even  achieving  the  suburban,  and
however the border is hardly to determine while administratively it has border already.
The  growing  of  urban  population  up  is  noted  causing tensions  amongst  of  going  expensive  more  the  price  of  land
around the urban, rising needs on houses, reducing the quality of
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residing  on  suburban  shall  be  one  of alternatives in  avoiding  the tensions resulted by the development of urban.
The  development  on  border  regions  as  not  integrated planning  on  differences  of  interested  and  competences  may
cause  the  development  of  housing  and  residences  become  not planned  and  uncontrollable  as  later  got  problems  in  life  such  as
conflicts on exploitation of land, not efficiency in serving urban by infrastructure,  the  environmental  polluted  resulting  in  occurrence
reducing quality of environment in whole.
The development of Medan City and its hinterland as the suburban  somehow  become  a  preference  for  public  residing
particularly  the  community  of  Medan  City,  and  this  condition cause  the  residences  around  suburban  got  more  development
and rapidly with all its problem emerged mainly on the community of  suburban  as  the  consequence  of  their  social-economy
condition. The Formulation of Problems
In details the problems for housing preference are as the following :
1.  What factors influencing community have housing preference on  the  location  of  study  Suburban  of  Medan  City  and  Deli
Serdang District 2.  What  factors  influencing  that  location  of  study  be  attractive
and has additional values. The Limitation of Problems
In writing this study in topic a housing preference limited only  to  the  community  has  permanent  resident  or  not  as
temporary  resident  either  on  the  region  of  real  estate  residential planned  or  the  residents  with  a  conventional  housing
spontaneous.  Therefore,  those  community  residing  by  rent  or resident by board excluding to this study.
The Objective of Study
The  objectives  of  study  a  preference  to  reside  on suburban of Medan are :
  To  know  the  factors  influencing  a  housing  preference  on suburban
  To identify the attractiveness of locations for study Library Research
The regulations No. 4 of 1992 regarding the housings and the  settlement  as  entered  into  Chapter  I  General  Guidance
defines  the  settlement  as  a  part  of  the  environmental  region outside  the  preserved  zone  either  provided  as  urban  region  or
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settlement  and  for  business  places  supporting  for  the  living  and life.
The settlement as residences is a basic need for human being.  In  each  planning  of  urban  seen  that  utilization  of  land  for
residences  take  most  part  for  settlement.  In  order  bring  the settlement into an integrated region for residence require several
components  inherently  such  as  available  land  as  intention, existing  superstructures  and  infrastructures,  available  housing
resident  built  up  in  the  residence  region  as  well  as  available general facilities and social facilities provided.
In  utilizing  the  land  with  spaces  in  forming  a  residences found  several  approaching  models  exposed  in  responding  the
dynamic  of  urban  living.  In  general  this  approaching is  classified into four approaches Yunus, 2000 namely Ecological Approach,
Economy Approach, Morphological Approach, Activity Approach.
The  dynamic  of  urban  development  beside  to  influence the part of  city core and middle core, it also indirectly influence to
the  occurrence  development  on  the  suburban  and  on  the  city border    with  the  towns  peripheral    fringe  areas.  It  is  such  for
Medan City beside influencing to the city core, it also influences to the peripheral.
Preference has a meaning a prefer or one’s tendency for something. Housing preference means a someone’s intention for
residing on one place influenced by its variables. A preference to express  intention  over  something  can  be  used  as  a  basic  to
assess  mainly  regarding  the  environmental  characteristics.  For instance, someone shall prefer location for residence near to the
city core, to office, near to toll road, noises rate lower and a lower crowded.  While  others  shall  prefer  the  location  near  to  reach
schools for children Chapman, 1986.
The  development  of  suburban  in  the  planning  usually practiced  not  integrated  since  the  difference  of  interest  and
authority  and  this  resulting  in  the  growing  of  housing  run  non planned  and  uncontrollable.  Urban  is  a  system  for  residing  in
various scales, agglomerated or not covering  parts in-built linking with various social and economy interest bound and to deal each
other,  to  enrich  and  influenced.  Amongst  those  towns  in  the system is found a main city takes part very dominantly.  The form
and  width  of  master  city  is  not  determined  anymore  yet  by  the political capability, but on behalf of economy activity and interest,
various  consumption  and  transportation  for  goods  and  services overstep the conventional limit Silas, 1996.
The  consequences  of  city  development  is  available  a tendency  moving  the  functions  of  urban  to  fringe  as  is  seen  a
process  move  beyond  physical exposed  from  urban  to  sprawl.  A further  consequences  on  suburban  will  experience  a  spatial
transformation  process  by  a  densification  residence  process  and
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transformation  process.  The  densification  residences  process occurring  on  suburban  is  a  realization  of    rising  need  on  spaces
on urban.
The urban fringe as a region overflowing activity of urban development  has  got  already  attention  from  many  experts  on
various  disciplines  such  as  geography,  social,  and  urban  since 1930-s    was  the  first  time  the  term  of  urban  fringe  stated  out  in
literature.  The  highly  attention  mainly  addressed  to  various problems  resulted  by  an  expanse  process  of  city  into  suburban
and  resulting  in  changing  of  physical  for  instance  the  change  of utilization  of  land,  demography,  ecological  balance  as  well  as
economy-social condition Subroto, etc. 1997 by Giyarsih.
Mc.  Gee  1991  in  Giyarsih  stated  out  that  the development  process  and  urbanizations  in  Indonesia  mainly  in
Java  Island  marked  by  available  restructuring  in  the  internal  of cities.  The  cities  in  Indonesia  for  coming  several  decades  tends
going  to  progress  either  demographically,  physical,  or  spatial.  A phenomenon  reduced  rural  population  within  past  two  decades
because  a  massive  migration  from  rural,  and  this  indicates  that cities  in  Indonesia  shall  develop  rapid  either  demographically  or
spatial in the future.
House  as  a  basic  need  for  human  has  a  various  form according to whom as user. Bases to hierarchy of need  Maslow,
1954  the  necessity  on  house  can  be  approached  as  a physiological  needs,  safety  or  security  needs,  social  needs,  self
actualization Arrupe, 1977. Housings constitute a heterogeneity consumption  thing,  imperishable,  important  is  an  indirectly
indicator  of  status  and  difference  in  consumer’s  argument,  a social  relationship  map  of  city  structure,  an  important  part  of
residences,  and  conflict  between  various  strength  in  group  and source  of  profit  income  for  different  institute  involved  in  the
production process Bessett  Short, 1980 in turniningtyas.
Everyone  has  privilege  to  choose  for  residence  refers  to their  needs,  preference,  life  style,  either  take  it  on  the  suburb,
hinterland  or  rural,  on  a  mega    metropolitant  area  or  mini Rapoport,  1977.  House  as  primary  consumption  following  the
clothes  and  foods  depending  on  social –  economy  condition  of
the  human  itself.  For  the  city  land  become  narrower  and  going rise  expensive  the  land  on  urban  cause  preference  moves  over
suburban. One’s decision to move shall depend on the difference between  a  currently  opportunity  and  to  be  achieved  and  its
various  tensions.  Ablere,  etc.1977.  The  decision  on  location often linked with the characteristics of residences, status, prestige
and  homogeneity  of  social,  topography,  security  and  social relations  related  closely  with  the  rate  of  social  status  Rapoport,
1977.  Beside  it  seen  the  consequence  of  publication  spreading
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of preference to reside on one place Rapoprot, 1977. Housing  preference  is  influenced  by  life  style  of  the
resident  with  a  consumption  oriented,  social  prestige  oriented, family
oriented community
oriented moore
1974 by
Turniningtyas.  By  a  family  oriented  and  with  certain  community oriented  dominates  highly  a  need  in  determining  location  of
residence.  In  this  case,  the  community  may  connect  with  race, faith,  or  social-economy  rate  of  the  resident,  while  the  family
oriented shall link with existing the family, parents, friends or other relations.
The  prestige  rate  of  someone  as  connected  with  the social-economy  status  and  income  owned  also  influencing  to
one’s  preference.  If  choosing  to  the  regions  viewed  from  the income point it seen that the population with lower income tend to
choose  the  residence  location  near  to  city  core  usually  slum  , while  for  those  resident  with  middle  income  and  above  tend  to
chose  the  suburban  a  better  residence  refers  to  the  argument stated out by Burgess 1925. Whereas in Indonesia many times
friends,  family  present  an  important  influence  in  facilitating  and encourage  migrant  to  urban  to  determine  their  residence
Tirtosudarno, 1985. The Research Method
The population to this study are housings available on the suburban  of  Kecamatan  Medan  Johor  and  spontaneous
residences  housing  and  a  planned  housing  Kelurahan  Delitua Kecamatan  Namorambe  Kabupaten  Deli  Serdang.  The  sort  of
study  adopted  perhaps  a  survey  study  by  distributing questionnaire.  The  taking  sample  technique  was  by  cluster
sampling. The data processing and analysis was conducted by a descriptive analysis statistic.
The Result of Study
In  the  ecology  approach  of  Medan  City  by  adopting Harris-Ullman  method  1945  which  theory  state  out  the  Multiple
Nuclei  Model  with  own  concept  with  the  lead  development  of Medan  City  mention  the  concept  forming  structure  of  space
separating and exploiting the region with functional Figure 1.
Berry  theory  1963  mentioning  the  distribution  of  land value  theory  for  big  cities  linked  with  the  transportation  net
accessibility.  For  available  radial  road  may  push  the  emerging mini peaks. If seen on the grand peak city center marked with a
grand  peak  rate,  while  on  mini  peak  the  price  of  land  be  lower Figure 2. The Northam Theory 1979 concerning over bounded
city,  true  bounded  city  and  under  bounded  city  for  a morphological approach Figure 3.
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Figure 1. Ecological Approach Source: RUTR Kota Medan, 2005
Figure 2. Economy Approach Figure 3. Morphological Approach
The  respondents  were  taken  amount  100  people  with  a detail of 70 men and 30 women. The age of respondent namely
30 years 3,  30 – 40 years 22, 40 – 50 years 43 and
50 years 32.  The respondent education rate comprising of Post  Graduate  11,    Graduate  63,    SMA  grade  22  and
SMP grade of 4. The
environmental variable
analyzed were
the environmental factors as the main consideration of respondents in
choosing the location for residence. The factors comprising of the green condition, flood, drainage condition, quality of roads, quality
of  clean  water,  electrical  facility,  and  the  security  rate  and  the cleanness of residences.
The  above  graphic  indicates  that  free  flood  region  is known  the  highly  mean  from  several  variables  of  residence
condition namely amount 97.80, and this state out that free flood variable  is  the  most  dominant  region  as  priority  the  respondent
choose in determining the location for resident.
Beside  the  region  free  of  flood,  the  condition  of  road  is still priority with the mean of 83.00 and mention that the condition
of  road  shall  highly  determine  to  preference  in  residing.  The condition  of  road  intended  comprising  of  accessibility  of  way  out
and  in  to  the  residence  complex  including  its  hardness.  The location of study is well known as outer ring road. Figure 4
It is noted that the praying facilities mostly demanded with a  near location  and easy  to  achieve  from  the  residence,  and  the
mean response from the respondents is 92.00  and it means that facility for worship should be not so far  2km distance from the
location of residence, followed by the education facilities 89.80, traditional  markets  83.20  and  clinic  81,  80.  These  variables
shall be a reference in deciding for housing preference. Figure 5
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78,20 97,80
68,00 57,80
83,00 75,20
67,80 70,40
74,40
Penghijauan Bebas banjir Drainase
Lebar Jalan Kondisi
jalan Air Bersih
List rik Keamanan
Kebersihan
Figure 4. The mean variables about the condition environmental factors
83,20 66,80
50,20 89,80
92,00 81,80
64,20 78,40
72,80
Pasar Tradisional
Sup er market
Plaza M all Pendidikan Temp at
Peribadatan Klinik
Rumah Sakit
Taman Bermain
Sarana Olahraga
Figure 5. The mean variables about the condition of infrastructure and superstructures
It is noted that the location to the southern part of Medan City specifically  leads to residential purpose on representative. It
is  not  seen  only  from  its  access  or  available  infrastructures  and superstructures  but  also linked  to  other  reasonable.  Accordingly,
the respondents resided on the southern part of Medan City have a certain reason why they choose that location for the residence.
Based to the result of survey in fact found that in generally 95 respondents  responded  that  location  is  relative  cheaper  than
other  locations.  Still,  got  near  to  the  family  is  noted  secondly priority 87  and  the  available infrastructure  and  superstructure
namely  completed  social  and  public  facilities  shall  be  another reasons for them in housing preference. Figure 6
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95 62
83 87
15 10
20 30
40 50
60 70
80 90
100
Murah Dekat  lokasi
kerja Dekat
FasumFasos Dekat
Keluargat eman P ret ise
Figure 6. The reasons for them in housing preference in suburban area
According  to  the  result  of  study  on  the  location,  as  well  as  the result  of  statistical  test  can  be  taken  a  conclusion  as  the
followings:
Table 1. The Result of Analysis Crosstab Preference for Residence
No Relations
Preference to reside
Chi square
Table
Chi Square
Count Interpretation
Remarks 1.
The condition of road
174.645 16.919
Ho accepted Connected
2. Width of road
124,727 16,919
Ho accepted Connected
3. Facility on
education 133,273
16,919 Ho accepted
Connected 4.
Frequency in flood
88,856 12,592
Ho accepted Connected
5. Social religion
129,936 12,592
Ho accepted Connected
6. Who in 1
location 210,914
21,026 Ho accepted
Connected
Conclusion
Refers  to  the  objective  of  this  study  it  can  be  taken conclusion that factors influencing the housing preference are as
the following :   The  condition  of  residence  namely  condition  of  green
surrounding,  condition  of  drainage,  condition  of  road, condition  of  quality  and  quantity  of  clean  water,  and  the
condition of security.   The  available  superstructure  and  infrastructure  with
accessibility  properly  existed  and  near  to  the  location  of general facility and social facility with the residence.
  Social condition namely comprising of  existing closed to the family,  a  certain  community,  social  condition  surrounding  as
the residence.
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  The house price is cheap relative   Near to the general and social facilities
  Near  to  the  relative  in  group  family,  friends,  parent,  and office-mate
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CHARACTERISTICS STUDY RESIDENT LIVING OF SLUM SETTLEMENT ON RIVER BANK
Case Study: Asahan River, Tanjung Balai, North Sumatera
Nurmaidah
Departement Of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Technic, Universitas Medan Area, Indonesia
Email Address: midah_ziziyahoo.com
Abstract
The  Existence  of  slum  settlement  appeared  on  the  bank  of  river seemly  triggered  by  a  worst  economy,  failed  to  provide  the
settlement  fulfilling  the  requirements  as  a  residence  properly  to occupy  and  make  them  difficulty  to  dwell  on  the  bank  of  river,
lake,  sea  as  their  residence  and  this  however  become  a  certain problem  and  it  may  decrease  quality  over  surrounding.  The
objective of this study is to know the factors influencing people as community persistent to live by settlement on the bank of Asahan
River since it has a worst quality condition surrounding. To collect the data perhaps conducted by field research as well as interview
with  non  structured  to  those  respondents,  for  them  distributed questionnaire in this case those residents in the settlement. Later,
the result was tested by using a statistic method to obtain factors causes  the  people  in  the  community  persistently  to  live  with
neighborhood  on  the  bank  of  river.  There  are  variables  to  test such as economy, socio-cultures, location of work and location of
residence.  From  the  result  of    this  study  showed  that  factors cause  the  people  in  community  persistent  to  occupy  the
settlement on the bank of river are : near to the area of working, ethnic  group  and  familial  relationship  with  the  resident  on  the
location. Keywords: slum, bank of river, characteristics
Introduction
It is noted that in knowing more the area of river bank or offshore  in  Indonesia  in  actually  rooted  on  geographical  factors,
and the archipelago history for centuries had been acknowledged a vital part on the international trade channel Suprijanto, 2003.
Tanjungbalai town is flowed through a large rivers namely Asahan  River  and  Silau  River,  also  flowed  by  some  small  rivers
Pematang River, Merbau River, Kapias River, Raja River, Serap River, Langge River as all empties into Aasahan River and Silau
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without names found on Tanjungbalai town. A few years ago, the settlement on the main land existed
on  Kelurahan  Kuala  Silo  Bestari  is  the  same  precisely  with  the settlement  region  being  studied.  Local  government  once  held
reclamation, it is later appeared a main land as now being crowed and  dense  population  with  houses.  It  is  noted  on  these
residences occurred many times burning and get down completed those  houses  surroundings  and  had  ever  occurred  a  great  flood
achieved  1  meter  above  shore,  but  although  had  occurred  the flooding  and  big  burning,  the  community  take  persistently  reside
on this settlement.
Amongst the offshore settlement existed on Tanjungbalai Town,  the  settlement  on  Kelurahan  Kuala  Silo  Bestari  region
seemly run wide leading into the mid of Asahan River site by site, almost  a  half  of  the  river  part  filled  with  staged  houses  made  of
wood  in  a  simple  construction  and  some  of  the  houses  have  got decayed and slanted. The building laid out not orderly, almost no
distance one house to another building and average size of house about  5  m  x  7  m  with  iron  sheet  roofing  and  some  have  no  any
ceiling.  For  daily  necessities  as  for  bath,  washing  and  toilet  and
others the people take river’s water. Public way facilities around this  settlement  made  of  wood  construction  in  a  very  simple  far
from  construction  requirement.  Mostly  public  way  made  of  wood on site mostly out of order in condition and it is seen threatening
to people. The population of this location in generally make their living as fisherman and labor. They live on this settlement region
and  got  averagely  teens  year,  mostly  of  the  community  have relative bound one and another. It is still as to ask question to this
study : what factors cause those people persistently to reisde on this offshore region.
Library Research
1.  Slum Settlement on River Bank
Along with the population grew  in number to the urban so that  requirement  on  house  and  residence  shall  be  going  to  rise
anymore,  to  provide  it  with  housing  and  the  residence  got  risen spontaneously  or  with  a  planning  residence.  In  generally,  the
housing  problems  on  urban  occurred  on  a  highly  growth  of population and it is noted on natural growing up run and because
of  the urbanization,  still highly costly to develop houses on urban also triggered by a limitation of land or even on a reason a lower
economy  make them not ability to live on any residence reliable, shortage  of  infrastructure  and  superstructure  to  fulfill  people
necessity mainly to those people with weak economy.
The  settlement  has  own  characteristics  type  refers  to  its non  physical  strength  grown  locally,  it  connecting  with  social-
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is  going  to  give  contribution  in  environmental  physical Koentjarangra,  1977.  According  to  Koentjarangrat,  1985,  the
housing and residence  house and environment is existed as a physical culture constitute the result of idea complex of a cultural
system  reflected  on  social  activity  locally.  In  order  to  know  and have the same meaning precisely on housing and residence, it is
necessary  to  study  the  definition  as  entered  into  UU  No.41992 regulations.  The  explanation  as  in  the  regulation  indicate  that
there are several main element connected in defining the housing and  residence,  namely:  available  dwelling  place  function  as
shelter  and  human  socialization  as  individual  in  the  smallest environment, existing a service net allowing people as individual
and society for living, hold there a limitation element connecting with the human behavior as individual and society in their living
and have life.
Further,  in  the  UU  No.41992  regulation  define  the meaning  of  settlement  and  mention  there  found  a  part  of
environment  outside  of  restricted  region  either  as  urban  region and rural and it function as dwelling place or for residence and got
it  for  activity  supporting  to  the  life  and  living.  This  case  cause  a seriously  problem  mainly  on  people  with  a  lower  income  with  a
greatest  number  classification  while  its  economy  capability  very limited. In connecting with it, people shall form a community and
take  dwell  on  green line  zones  and river  plain,  railway  track  and with idle land without any master. According to Article 22 UU No.4
of  1992  regulation  regarding  Housing  and  Settlement  as  not properly to reside such as the region and zone is not suitable for
its  purpose  exterior,  a  highly  crowded  buildings  found  within  a limited  area,  extremely  affected  with  social  illness  and
environmental  disease,  endanger  for  living  and  to  those community live there.
There  are  so  many  Indonesian  people  resided  on  the area of rivers bank, and they shall exploit the natural resources of
water on sea and shore. In connecting with it, the problem deals with perhaps growing up there various activities on the river bank
such as economy activity of fisherman community, they shall build houses  neglecting  any  technical  rules,  ecological  and
administrative  requirements.  In  building  houses,  the  community make reclamation uncontrolled and some to  heap the swamp up
so that ecology and environment destroyed. The location and site for  settlement  tend  influencing  to  the  social  interaction  pattern.
The element and road network or open space are known affecting mainly  to  the  image  refers  to  identity,  and  it  shall  present  some
meaning as forming image of some place.
According  to  Suprijanto  2000  in  his  study,  the  rivers bank  zone  comprising  of  a  region  run  dynamic  and  unique  with
all  sizes  where  the  land  and  waters  river,  lake,  sea,  Bay  run
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the  zone  may  comprise  buildings  or  some  other  activities  that must  not  be  directly  on  water  but  linked  with  the  water  as  the
main scheme in widely.
In connecting with the Presidential Decree Number 32 of 1990,  date  of  25
th
July  regarding  the  Management  of  Restricted Zones to preserve defined as
1.  A  protection  to  all  beach  and  river  provided  in  order  to preserve  the  border  region  of  beach  river  away  from  the
activities disturbing the function of beach rivers. 2.  Criterion  border  of  beach  river  is  mainly  the  land    along  the
sea  side  with  the  width  proportional  with  the  form  and  its physical condition minimally 100 meters from the highest tide
point lead ward land. The building orientation as initially build facing water refers
to  its  activities  based  water  oriented.  Further  development  the activity  oriented  to  land  and  increasing  to  rise  even  more
dominantly,  the  houses  build  oriented  tends  facing  to  the  land ward and consider more the functional aspect and accessibilities.
By architecture, the building on the river side classified into :
1.  Buildings on land 2.  Buildings staged on land
3.  Buildings staged on water 4.  Buildings raft on water
The architectural buildings provided in a traditional and modern styles and its refers to the background of cultures and each ethnic
group. The building typology adopted a simple structure and construction, make traditional and conventional, perhaps neglect
considering the wind influence. There are many times found burning on careless, people use dangerous equipmenttools and
flammable, as well as not existing facilities and no guidance for extinguishing particularly for houses on waters.
The river side settlement with the land region for research compound  between  the  fisherman  settlement  and  river  bank
settlement noted shortage superstructure and infrastructure such as drink water and road facility, a lower rate income, people care
on environment is lower and their education rate is lower as well as. The settlement found on water side available on this Asahan
River, mostly community live there had a very lower income with their  way  of  living  as  fisherman  and  they  got  socialized  with  the
village area existed and on the main land is known as a marginal settlement  on  Tanjungbalai  town.  If  seen  from  the  comfortable
point view this region offer no any thing, but their comfortable and they  feel  at  home  atmosphere,  on  other  side  still  offer  them
harmony  live,  warmly  relation  and  familiar  each  other  as  normal psychological human.
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2.    The  Relations  of  Dwelling  Place  with  the  Working Location
The human and its environmental constitute a unit unable to  separate,  means  both  got  interaction  each  other,  which
interaction  will  influence  on  human  behavior.  The  environment might  be  a  physical  sphere  namely  universe  surrounding  in
natural or artificial made. As a human is of course social creature so  take  always  interacted  with  other,  and  there  appeared  then
some  houses  named  as  settlement.  In  his  book,  Yunus  1994 with  the  theory  of  hoyt  sector  mentions,  population  take  zone
three  namely  zone  with  a  slum  settlement.  Those  lower  workers prefer    house  near  to  the  location  where  they  work,  aimed  for
saving  transportation  cost.  The  user  of  town  site  mainly  on  the zone  three,  according  to  R.V  Ratclif  stated  out  as  an  exchange
phenomenon  between  the  land  price  and  dense  between  the transportation  cost  and  dense.  This  possible  to  run  for  mostly
community  want  a lower  transportation  cost. So  exploiting  space by  human  still  be  based  on  the  considerations  of  distances  that
links directly with the economy factor.
In essentially, the factor cause the community not able or live  under  poverty  and  then  take  dwell  next  to  river  side
comprising of three factors : 1.  Economy  factor,  people  capability  they  hold  in  order  to  fulfill
their living needs, for instance working and income. 2.  Social factor is their capability adapted with the environment,
for instance education rate and knowledge. 3.  Cultural  factor,  is  their  background  on  culture,  ethnic  group
and traditions as well as their faith in hold. 4.  Lower education rate that people got
5.  Closed  relation  they  hold  among  those  community  dwell together.
For economy factor, social and culture as well as education is recognized influencing highly and immediately to the
growth of spontaneous settlement found on river bank, in addition it can be mentioned that to the settlement of river bank later have
a various characteristics as the following : 1.  It has superiority location that possibility to become a central
for economy growth. 2.  The  community  have  social  activity  oriented  to  water  and
main land. 3.  Mostly  people  with  a  lower  economy  group  with  a  relative
limited education background. 4.  Their  knowledge  on  a  health  environment  is  still  shortage.
They  usually  do  not  care  about  their  environment  and  have tendency neglect any risk and danger of earthquake.
5.  Found  there  community  with  their  tradition  to  live  on  water and  used  to  exploit  waters  and  rivers  as  their  transportation
way.
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Originally, the river side settlement occupied by community requiring shelter only away from outside weather and they need it
closed  to  the  location  where  they  worked.  In  generally,  the community  live  on  the  river  side  make  their  living  way  informally
and  mostly  they  were  as  fishermen,  they  could  move  easily mobilized  with  their  working  such  as  boats  closed  to  their  house
and  they  need  near  distance  for  dwelling.  According  to  Turner 1968,  in  Hadi  Sabari  Yunus  theory,  there  are  four  sorts  of
dimension need to pay attention particularly in knowing more the living houses on any urban, they are :
1.  Dimension  of  location  relies  on  the  areas  very  suitable  for
dwelling house. This condition pressed more on their income and way of cycles in life. This location closed relation with the
distance for working accessibility to employment. 2.
Dimension of housing related with one’s aspiration to the type of  house  available.  This  condition  mostly  people  make
argument  to  the  aspect  of  controlling  the  house  and  usually linked with the income and living cycle.
3. Dimension  of  cycle  of  live,  deals  with  one’s  stages
commencing  to  have  starting  autonomy  to  life,  in  wide meaning  all  living  needs  one  hundred  percent  supported  by
own income.
4. Dimension  of  income,  emphasized  on  how  many  one’s
income gained on time unit. According  to  the  argument  of  Panudju  1999,  in  making
priority about the house, someone and one family having a lower income  tend  to put  their  main  priority  on  the location  where  they
shall  get  opportunity  to  job.  It  means,  without  any  job  for supporting  their  daily  needs, it  shall  be  very difficulty  to  maintain
their  life. While,  status  of  house  possession  and  have  land  shall the  second  priority.  For  the  house  with  quality  shall  be  the  last
priority, but the important one on this stage is existing a house for protecting and got relax for their way to maintain life. In the social
housing  system,  so  Jo  Santoso  2002  stated  out  that  house  for community with a lower income shall be :
1.  Near to the working place or to an area potential to get job, at
least worker on informal sector. 2.  The  quality  in  physical  of  dwelling  and  environment  is  not
important as far as they still can live and hold to work. 3.  The  rights  and  privilege  owned  on  land  and  building  is  not
care.  The  most  important  for  them  is  never  to  condemn  and do not ask them remove. According to their opinion, a house
is facility. From  above  description,  the  relation  between  the  location
of  work  with  the  location  for  residence  has  many  link  with economy,  social  and  culture  and  all  it  closed  each  other.  The
three factors affecting the community, people not have capability