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This open access book investigates the challenges and innovations of urbanised kampungs (villages) in Indonesia and how they create a liveable environment during rapid urban expansion. Focusing on urban informal settlements on the fringes of Jakarta, and desa-kota villages in Ende, the collection discusses various aspects of liveability, which includes water, waste and sanitation management, food and nutrition. The volume also examines the way kampungs operate within the fast-paced urbanization occurring around the informal settlements in Indonesia. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach towards different issues relating to liveability, the work engenders a multidimensional perspective integrating social practice with aspects of infrastructure, institution, and regulation. Presenting an original contribution to the study of middle-lower income urban neighborhoods in Indonesian cities especially, and cities in the Global South generally, this book captures key materials for discussing the main challenges and potential in the urban life and development of marginalised neighborhoods. Cutting across the fields of science and technology, engineering, medicine, public health, nutritional studies, humanities, social sciences and cultural studies, this interdisciplinary compilation offers important and unique views on urban life and urban policy. It is of interest to readers in urban studies and policy, development studies, health and well-being, particularly in developing geographies.
List of contents
Introduction.- The Future of Urban Kampung: Discourse Contestation, WASH Basic Services, and Social and Cultural Capital.- The Effects of Household Characteristic towards Urban Poor s Ability to Pay Domestic Water and Sanitation Services in Urban Kampung Area in Greater Jakarta.- Health Risk Analysis in Urban Kampungs Applying Compost from Organic Waste.- Investigation of Microbial Air Quality in Urban Kampung Adjacent to Landfill.
About the author
Melani Budianta is a professor and a cultural studies scholar, with years of engaged research in kampung activism. Her recent publication is “Smart kampung: Doing Cultural Studies in the Global South” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 16:3, 2019. She has been working with the Indonesian ministries of Village and Marginalized Areas and Indonesian ministry of Culture in mapping the cultural potentials of Indonesian villages and kampungs.
Manneke Budiman is a professor of literature, with expertise in East Asian Studies. He has
done research and published on cultural issues, regarding state and grassroot activism, cultural identity and representation, and preservation of tradition. Manneke Budiman has also written on urban culture and its evolution in the process of Indonesia’s development. He recently published an edited volume,
Collective Memory, Marginality, and Spatial Politics in Urban Indonesia (2025) with Abidin Kusno, published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Kathrin Oester Znoj is a social anthropologist and filmmaker, specialised in media anthropology, global education, and migration. She repeatedly conducted research in Sumatra and West Papua between 1995-2019, taught media anthropology in different universities and developed the media anthropology curriculum at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern. She has (co-)directed and written several ethnographic documentaries and authored and edited various books.
