The kampung type of settlement is characteristics of town and city life in Indonesia, especially everywhere in Jawa. Kampung is something of a reinterpretation of the village pattern in terms of the denser, more heterogeneous, less organically integrated urban environment. The kampung is often described as slums because of its poor physical conditions, but the kampung world is apart far from slums in the Western cities. Kampungs are identifiable primarily by their age, location and economic wellbeing. Individual kampung seems to be microcosmos of great variety. This paper aims to clarify the concept and the nature of kampung type of settlement and the process of its growth historically.
