This paper focuses on community strategy in slum areas to adapt to the flood in Jakarta that occur every year. Sea-level rise and land subsidence are some of the causes of Jakarta’s flood. Jakarta is affected by floods every year. Communities need a development strategy to be able to survive from the unpredictable floods each year. This paper aims to identify the application of community strategy as an effort to adapt to Jakarta’s flood in Kampung Apung, West Jakarta. Kampung Apung is one of the slum areas in Jakarta that has been affected by floods since 1995. The flood was caused by land subsidence and worsened by development around the kampung that ignore the environment in the ’90s. Now, Kampung Apung has been submerged in water as deep as 2 meters. This paper uses the descriptive-qualitative method. Data obtained from field observations, documents from the internet, and online interviews with the key informant in Kampung Apung. The result of the paper is to find a community strategy to living with flood in the slum area which is one of the efforts to be able to improve quality of life.

Elementary school, as criteria of a friendly city, should beavailable inside a neighborhood unit (NU). There is only one out of 109NU in Surakarta City that does not have an elementary school. However,67% of the people of Surakarta choose elementary schools outside theirNU. They use various modes of transportation because their school is outof reach for walking. Nevertheless, there are people who do not walk eventhough they are in their NU. This study aims to determine the factors thatinfluence the modal choice in accessing schools in the city of Surakarta. This research used a quantitative research method with multinomiallogistic regression analysis to analyze 14 factors obtained from thetheoretical review. The result shows that there are six factors that influencethe modal choice to access elementary school, i.e. family member; carownership; householder occupation; time of trip made; road separator; andhouseholder age.

Cigarette Factory Gunung Kedu and Cigarette Factory Gunung Kelapa are kretek industries owned by the Atmowidjojo family. This family has a big role in the economic progress of the Kudus Kulon community. This role can be seen in the large number of jobs provided for the surrounding community. Physical relics that are still intact to date are; Atmowidjojo’s house, Nadirun’s house, office, and Gunung Kedu factory. Buildings that have historical value are important elements in the development of the city area, as the identity and image of the city. However, at this time the awareness of the public and the government regarding the preservation of buildings is quite lacking. The phenomenon that occurs in the Kudus Kulon area at this time is that many historical buildings belonging to the community are sold and torn down. Sales and demolition of buildings due to the high cost of maintaining historic buildings. Based on this importance, it is necessary to apply the concept of adaptive reuse as a sustainable step in preserving buildings that have historical value in Kudus. The purpose of this research is to study the steps for the sustainability of the application of conservation in buildings that have a history, with building conditions that are still suitable for use. The method in this research uses descriptive qualitative using a case study approach.

The house becomes one of the basic human needs after food and clothing. The quality of the house is determined by physical factors and other factors such as the socio-cultural economy of the inhabitants. Tuberculosis is one of the most infectious diseases with high mortality in Indonesia, Central Java ranks third on the national scale after West Java and East Java in 2016. Magelang has the highest new cases of tuberculosis in Central Java at 775.32 per 100,000 population in 2016 and increase case 845.4 per 100,000 population in 2017. Tuberculosis infection occurs with various factors, including physical (home), and non-physical (socio-cultural and economic) of the inhabitants. The problem is how the physical and non-physical factors of the house affect on the endemic cases of tuberculosis patients in Magelang. The purpose of the study is to examine the effect of physical and non-physical factors on the increasing cases of tuberculosis patients in Magelang. In this article, the researcher uses qualitative descriptive methods with literature review. The results of this review literature will be used to examine empirical cases in Magelang.