Author: Sudaryono Sastrosasmita
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Diss no. HS-93-01
Year: 1993
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (Ph.D.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1993
Examination Committee: A.T.M. Nurul Amin (Chairperson); Yap Kioe Sheng, Karl E. Weber, Douglas R. Webster, Aprodicio A. Laquian (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: In 1978, six years after the implementation of the first series of self-help housing projects by the World Bank, a major critique was launched and since then the significance of this new strategy has been debated by academics and policy makers. This study groups them into two schools of thought : the convivialists and radicalists. The convivialists is seen to view the selfhelp housing as a realistic approach to solve the housing problem of low income people in cognizance of the financial situation of the Third World countries. Self-help housing, according to the convivialists, provides affordable and adequate housing for low income urban families. The radicalists, however, see self-help housing as a mean of exploitation. It is viewed as a tool of capitalist mode of production to maintain and expand the reproduction of social labour in the name of dweller control. In this situation the capitalist sector gets a scope for not providing adequate housing to its workforce. Within a framework juxtaposing the convivialists’ and radicalists’ theoretical debate, a critical assessment is made on the basis of three different types of settlements of three different categories of city of Indonesia: Jakarta (the metropolitan city), Yogyakarta (a second order city), and Jember (an agricultural service based city). The settlements are : ‘kampung’ (the informal self-help settlements), ‘KIP’ (the quasi-informal self-help settlements), and ‘Perumnas’ (the formal self-help housing). The dominant indicators of self-help housing are self-management, self-finance, participation in physical developments, and self-design. In contrast, self-help housing would appear limited by the measure of indicators such as self-labor (non-hired labor), availability of free time, and possession of construction skills. The bigger the city size, greater is the potential of self-help in the Perumnas housing. Analogously, the smaller the dty size, the greater is the potential of self-help in KIP and kampung housing. In the economic dimension, indebtedness
Scholarship Donor(s): Government of Australia
Note: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of Engineering and Technology
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