Jembatan Besi Flashcards
Population of Indonesia
256 million
What is Jembatan Besi and where is it?
Slum in Jakarta
4km from city centre
Ciliwung River
Population of Jembatan Besi
4000
Socio economic: Why do people live in slums?
Demand for affordable housing exceeds the supply
Government and private sector cannot cope with the increasing population
Cannot afford more expensive housing
Socio economic: Employment in Jakarta
Informal employment - self employment eg selling food
Require little start up capital
Jobs in formal employment come with little security - significant garment industry, little protection for these people
Socio economic: Average income of residents
US$4/day
Socio economic: Health and sanitation
Few home has a toilet, toilets in the slum are poorly built and run for profit by local businesses
Toilets flush out into open sewers in the street
No clean running water
Built on former waste tip so groundwater highly polluted
Socio economic: Disease
Epidemics of water borne diseases (cholera and typhoid) common
Tropical hot and humid climate - malaria
Young and elderly risk from dehydration due to diarrhoea caused by poor hygiene
Socio economic: Air pollution
Kerosene for cooking
City high emissions
Significant health risks
Socio economic: Nutrition
Rice with little fresh protein or fruit and vegetables
Socio economic: Education
Poorly equipped
Families need children to earn money so cannot complete education
Garment industry major source of employment for many young females
Housing conditions: Materials
Original house with extra, makeshift floors added
Made of scrap materials
Housing conditions: Why is fire a risk?
Overcrowding, kerosene, improvised overloaded electrical wiring
Housing conditions: Electricity
Narrow alleys and tall buildings - low sunlight
Electric lighting by neon tubes and bare light bulbs
Are the slums going to disappear?
No
