Urbanization In Surabaya

High population and urbanization in Surabaya is a consequence of city development. This resulted in high demand for housing. The Europeans, Chinese, Arabs, and Natives all need a place to live and a place of business. This means that if the number of housing needs is not comparable with the provision of housing by the city government of Surabaya, it will cause social problems in the field of social and health. One of them is the emergence of slums in a kampong that is considered to have caused various infectious diseases and contagious since the beginning of the 20th century.

The kampong title is meant for a limited settlement environment with a group of homes, which are usually inhabited by low-income people and a unity in business and ethnicity.

Tillema, and his friend H. Thomas Karsten. They introduced a call to perform a culture of "Healthy Ideology" in socializing lives in urban slums. They invite children who live in the kampong to follow health and hygiene counseling, which is assisted by the Surabaya City Government as a funder. In addition, Tillema also proposed, to build a new kampong that is more organized layout of the house and equipped with water channels, garbage disposal system, and the park because of the kampong conditions in the colonial period was too severe and impossible to repair. Meanwhile, according to Thomas Karsten this proposal is quite good, but the problem of unrestricted kampong can be overcome only by improving the infrastructure, because the city is able to preserve his own kampong in the

So Tillema suggested that the government pay attention to the health of the indigenous people and make improvements to the settlement because it has a lot of writing about it. As A. van Balen wrote about the poor water and sanitation policy of the Indies era under the title "A Survey of The Drinking Water and Sanitation: Policy In The Dutch East Indies 1872-1942". Similarly, research on health related to urban community building conditions conducted by G.W.F. Vos in his book, "Indissche Bouwhijgiene, Proeve van Eengtalpassing van De Gezondheidesleer Bij Het Bouwen in Nederlands Indie". However, the results of this research are still stored in government office cabinets without regard to