1998 Volume 63 Issue 508 Pages 177-184
This paper aims to statistically clarify the locality in rental housing situation, from the viewpoints of physical conditions of housing and characteristics of households, in Indonesian provincial cities by adducing Bandung, Medan and Ujung Pandan as examples. There are clearly locality in physical conditions of rental housing among three cities. Though Bandung shows locality based on urbanization as welle as Jakarta Metropolitan area, Medan and Ujung Pdan show locality based on special character of the region such as large scale rental housing in Medan and provision of rental housing using ground floor level of traditional elevated floor houses in Ujung Pandan. There are also locality in characteristics of households reflecting traditional household types. For example, typical household types of rental housing in Bandung, where had a tradition of a nuclear family, is mainly constituted by a small nuclear family or single family. On the other hand, those of Medan, where had a tradition of extended family, is a relatively large nuclear family or shared family among brothers and sisters or friends, and young single family in Ujung Pandan lives in small rental housing or larger owner occupied house as the dependent, because they also had a tradition of extended family. Consequently, it would be needed in Indonesia not to merely amplify rental housing models in Java cities but to consider the local characteristics of housing and their households in making rental houing policy of provincial cities.
