Issues

Development Pressure

Strategically located close to Bandung’s top tourist destinations, the land value becomes highly investable leading to the intensification of commercial development around Kampung Braga which increases the threat of eviction.

Fragmented Communities

Kampung Braga is divided into four small administrative districts (RWs) in which each has its own development program supported by each community associations. This results in the lack of common vision for the whole kampung as one community which makes them easy to dismantle.

Unutilised Vacant Lands

Lack of open space in Kampung Braga forces the residents to use street as their social space. The vacant lands from the demolished area becomes new active usable space for the residents. Utilising the vacant land is imperative to extend Kampung Braga’s development program.

Visibility and Significance

Kampung Braga has been overshadowed by the fame of Braga Street and AlunAlun Bandung as heritage site, making it invisible and impenetrable both spatially and socially. The invisibility becomes an additional threat for eviction.

Ineffective Governance

Too many institutions and organisations in a such small area without strong leadership to bind the residents together complicate the channel of communication and resource distribution resulting in insignificant development program.

Local Economy

Economic production in Kampung Braga is not widely nurtured and interconnected. The absence of community bank, access to the market, and assistance from significant groups makes Kampung Braga does not have much selling point in the middle of tourist destination area.