Jembatan Besi vs Northwood
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- Created on: 05-06-19 11:48
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- Jembatan Besi vs Northwood
- Northwood
- location
- suburb of Irvine, Orange County, California
- population of 21,000
- housing
- built in the 1960s
- 2000 households
- employment
- average salary of $86,000 compared to average US salary of $52,000
- The Univercity of California is biggest employer
- tech companies big emploers: Blizzard Entertainment, Broadcom
- TNC HQs of Madza, Kia and Toshiba
- health
- healthcare excellent
- air pollution less severe than other parts of CA
- demography
- 50% white, next biggest ethnic group are Vietnamese
- 68.5% of residents have a degree, 20% with doctorates/masters
- crime rate 70% lower than national average
- location
- jembatan besi
- sanitation
- few homes have toilets, and those who do have sewage flush into rivers or street
- disease outbreaks such as typhoid and cholera common
- no clean running water in the slum; no groundwater as it is built on rubbish tip
- health
- hot humid climate, and stagnant water make hepatitis A and malaria occur
- nutrition poor due to poverty; rice dominated diet with little protein, fruit or veg
- employment
- Indonesia one of top 10 global textiles producers
- average income is $4 a day - this is irregular however
- employment mostly casual, although many young women work in the garment industry
- young women taken out of school to work at home or in garments, creates poverty circle
- housing
- made by the residents: no planning, fire safety etc
- urban authorities want to organise slums, but this is unpopular due to strong sense of community for inhabitants
- many have lived here for generations
- Jakarta Housing and Administrative Buildings Agency has identified 392 'community units' planned for improvement
- sanitation
- Northwood
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