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    Urban acupuncture points can be identified in cities similar to how acupuncture points relate to organs in the human body. In Indonesian cities, kampungs are inhabited largely by poor communities that have developed unique traditions while adapting to urban life. Kampungs function as their own "cities" and play important economic roles rather than being parasites. To improve kampungs, accessibility should be integrated into the wider city transport system. Greenery and eco-housing schemes can support environmental and housing needs, while eco-waste management can involve communities in recycling waste into resources.

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    Urban acupuncture points can be identified in cities similar to how acupuncture points relate to organs in the human body. In Indonesian cities, kampungs are inhabited largely by poor communities that have developed unique traditions while adapting to urban life. Kampungs function as their own "cities" and play important economic roles rather than being parasites. To improve kampungs, accessibility should be integrated into the wider city transport system. Greenery and eco-housing schemes can support environmental and housing needs, while eco-waste management can involve communities in recycling waste into resources.

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    Urban acupuncture points can be identified in cities similar to how acupuncture points relate to organs in the human body. In Indonesian cities, kampungs are inhabited largely by poor communities that have developed unique traditions while adapting to urban life. Kampungs function as their own "cities" and play important economic roles rather than being parasites. To improve kampungs, accessibility should be integrated into the wider city transport system. Greenery and eco-housing schemes can support environmental and housing needs, while eco-waste management can involve communities in recycling waste into resources.

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    Urban acupuncture points can be identified in cities similar to how acupuncture points relate to organs in the human body. In Indonesian cities, kampungs are inhabited largely by poor communities that have developed unique traditions while adapting to urban life. Kampungs function as their own "cities" and play important economic roles rather than being parasites. To improve kampungs, accessibility should be integrated into the wider city transport system. Greenery and eco-housing schemes can support environmental and housing needs, while eco-waste management can involve communities in recycling waste into resources.

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    URBAN ACCUPUNCTURE IN INDONESIAN CONTEXT AND KAMPUNG:

    Acupuncture points in the human body are related to human internal organs
    such as lung, pericardium, heart organs, large and small intestine, liver and
    kidney. We apply this method to a city – similar to human body – that has
    ‘internal organs’ such as social structure and system, economic related organs
    (industry, services, information etc.), residential (maintain quality offspring etc.).
    Therefore, urban acupuncture points could be identified as transport system,
    greeneries, waste, and housing.
    I will discuss kampung here of that which is inhabited by a majority of poor
    people. This people constitute a unique urban community developed of various
    traditional traditions, such as adat or customary laws of different ethnicities from
    all over the archipelago. They restructure into a type of ‘neotribal society’, since
    they are not similar to their origins but in many ways maintain their traditional
    norms and values to survive in the city. They are in process of becoming toward a
    civil-society of which urban society should be constituted by means of ‘social-
    contracts’ (established formal acts and laws). This implies that understanding this
    type of society is to understand their cultures, hence, their everyday practices.
    In this regard, kampung should be conceived as a ‘city’ of its own that exemplifies
    its social and economic structure as well as practices. They are not parasites
    instead give significant roles to the city, for example, construction workers,
    budget food vendors and stalls (warteg). Kampung should be treated as part of
    the conurbation development. Consequently, accessibility of kampung should be
    integrated into the whole city system.
    Within such a framework kampung settlement will have a role as a part of such a
    city function of which planning practice denies this reality. Urban planning
    practice until recently has viewed kampung as a simply ‘dormitory’ – a collection
    of houses. The following is crucial acupuncture points for kampung improvement:

    Accessibility:
    It should be developed within the larger urban context of which it should provide
    framework toward a ‘conurbation’. In the scheme, the transport system – a TOD
    system (Transit Oriented Development) – should be integrated with the kampung
    center development as a suitable local market, or otherwise the poor will find
    their own everywhere across the city.
    Greenery:
    It will subsume under the eco-urbanism that support bionutrients process of the
    urban environment as a whole. Ideal WHO standard of 16 square meters per
    person.
    Aided-Self-Help Eco Housing for the Poor:
    This scheme is especially crucial and addressed to ability of the poor to provide
    housing by themselves with the aid of the government and private sector (CSR).
    The approach should be based on informal community structure.
    Eco-waste management. The scheme should involve every individuals in the
    kampung to join the campaign of trash is not a trash – how to recycle waste into
    food or nutrients and, hence, incorporate private sector within the process and
    the poor have the benefit out of it – source of income as the Curitiba scheme has
    developed.

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