Model of Sustainable Urban Infrastructure at Coastal Reclamation of North Jakarta

AbstractHigh economic growth in the city was not balanced with adequate infrastructure provision. Northern Jakarta has been a tangible example of how the development of the city had ignored the environmental conditions, this region has been developed into a very dense and slums areas, and compounded with a huge problem of the exceeding of environment carrying capacity. A massive development of coastal reclamation at north of Jakarta could be used as a model of development based on ecological approach. This study is aiming to examine the concept of sustainable urban infrastructure at coastal reclamation of North Jakarta, which is an approach that integrates urban development components namely city community capital, the city infrastructure needs and ecological city components. To analyze the relationship between these components, this research was carried out by Structural Equation Model (SEM) which is multivariate analysis that analyzes the relationship between complex and simultaneous variables. The application of sustainable urban infrastructure model was done by Goodness of Fit Index (GOFI) value indicators to see how the data support the model on on total of 147 survey respondents. The indicators for each of these six models showed a good fit to ecological city theory, with chi-square of 3.60, df of 4 p-value of 0.45306, and root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) below 0.08. Latent variable Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) test showed very good match, model is saturated/perfect fit. Therefore, it can be stated that the data strongly support a model for the latent variables. This model of sustainable urban infrastructure in coastal reclamation can be applied to overcome the problems of urban sustainable development