Forum Geografi
Vol 12, No 2 (1998)

Characteristics of Urban Poverty Case Study in Sangkrah, Surakarta City

Wahyuni Apri Astuti (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jan 2004

Abstract

This research was intended to analyze on the characteristics of a poor household. The number of respondents in this research was 68 respondents who consisted of the poor households. The  what their characteristics were. To analyze data, the researcher used a descriptive analysis with the concentration on understanding from the researched community. This research made an effort to implement a poor community based approach in the urban area including understanding problems, and characteristics with the method of the poor community based participants. The result of this research indicated that the characteristics of the poor household included: their job was subject to changing the season and dependent on consumer’s need and want, a tendency to deviate from a law, the old and housewives and were involved to make a living, spending an inappropriate income, their survival dependend on the other people; their children were uneducated; they had not got a house and rented the house for a long time; and they could merely utilize the limited social failities.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

FG

Publisher

Subject

Earth & Planetary Sciences

Description

Forum Geografi, Indonesian Journal of Spatial and Regional Analysis (For. Geo) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that will consider any original scientific article for expanding the field of geography. The journal publishes articles in both physical and human geography specialties of interest ...