Study of housing and residential area implementation in West Kutai Regency

The government has a very important role in providing and giving housing and residential area facilities and assistance to the community through the implementation of housing and residential areas. The state is responsible for protecting all Indonesian people through the implementation of housing and residential areas so that people can live and occupy decent and affordable houses in healthy, safe, harmonious, and sustainable housing throughout Indonesia. In its implementation, several problems/factors caused the implementation of housing and residential areas to not run as expected. The purpose of this study is to examine the problems and efforts that have been made by the West Kutai Regency Government in the field of Housing and Residential Area Implementation. The study used legal research methods, namely by conducting Normative Juridical and Empirical Juridical legal research. The results of the study indicate that the problems of organizing housing and residential areas in West Kutai Regency are: (a) there is no Regional Regulation governing the Organization of Housing and Residential Areas; (b) the limited authority of the Housing, Residential Areas, and Land Service in organizing housing and residential areas in handling very complex settlements such as the fulfillment of basic clean water, sanitation infrastructure, and electricity networks; (c) the vast area of West Kutai Regency and the spread of residential areas resulting in a wide service coverage area, but few beneficiaries, this causes the cost value to increase but the beneficiaries do not match the value spent; (d) There are no regulations related to the West Kutai Regency Settlement Area Plan and related documents are still in process; and (e) There are no regulations regarding the development of residential housing in river/lake banks and building requirements that must have sanitation; Efforts made by the West Kutai Regency Government in the Implementation of Housing and Settlement Areas, namely: (a) providing assistance for the rehabilitation of residential housing with funds originating from the APBN, APBD, Province and APBD; (b) it is necessary to stipulate Regional Regulations on the Implementation of Housing and Settlement Areas to be a guideline for the regional government in carrying out government affairs in the field of housing and settlement areas; (c) facilitating, providing assistance and convenience to the community in providing housing along with supporting facilities and infrastructure, and (d) empowering the community in preventing the growth and development of slums is carried out through assistance and information services.