Number of Houses in Indonesia

BPS counting the number of houses according to their quality with the potential village census (Podes, 2008). Podes-2008 census is an activity that results will be used as the basis of 2010 Population Census. BPS quality house divided into 3 types of Permanent Houses, semipermanent and Not Permanent.

Permanent house are houses whose walls were made of the wall / wood (high quality), the floors made of tile / ceramic / high quality wood and its roof made of zinc / tiles / shingles / asbestos.

Semi-permanent house was the home whose walls a half wall / brick without plaster / wood (low quality), floor tile / cement / low-quality wood and corrugated iron roof / roof tile / shingle / asbestos.

The house is not permanent is the house whose walls are simple (bamboo / board / leaf), from the ground floor, and roof of leaves or a mixture of roof tile / zinc used and the like.

Based on calculations, in the year 2008 there were approximately 54.7 million houses in Indonesia (not including commercial, Rukan, beds, & other buildings rather than as a residence). The majority (50%) is the permanent house and about 23% houses are not permanent. Approximately 58.6% houses located on the island of Java, where Java, East Java, West and has the largest number of houses, close to 10 million house. As for Babel, Gorontalo, West Sulawesi, Maluku and North Maluku has a number of houses less than 300 thousand houses.

The number of these houses may be a measure of poverty in terms of housing, but the form of a houses in Indonesia is strongly influenced local culture and environment (forests, swamps, mountains and weather).

Housing Conditions & Access to Basic Services

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List of Indicators > Housing Conditions & Access to Basic Services
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Housing Conditions

• Average floor area per capita
• Percent of households with less than 10 sq. m. of floor area per capita
• Percent of households living in own house
• Percent of households with floor mainly of earth
• Percent of households with floor mainly of earth or bamboo
• Percent of households with walls mainly of bamboo
• Percent of households with roof mainly of grass or leaves
• Percent of households with roof mainly of wood, grass or leaves

Access to Basic Services

• Percent of households with any source of electric lighting
• Percent of households with PLN electric lighting
• Percent of households with own drinking water facilities
• Percent of households with pipe or pump source of drinking water
• Percent of households with piped, pumped or protected well or spring source of drinking water
• Percent of households buying drinking water
• Percent of households with own sanitation facilities
• Percent of households with toilet facilities
• Percent of households with sewerage or septic tanks
• Percent of Households with Save Drinking Water (Distance >10m from sawerage)