Gated community in Indonesian peri-urban: Security or segregation?

Abstract

As showed by several researches, large scale gated community in peri-urban shows a mixture of three aspects: security, prestige, and life style. However, with increased number of middle and high class and result of social and economic gap, security has become the basis of such development. Security aspect is manifested in exclusive design area which tends to reinforce both spatial and social segregation. Looking at very different situation in Indonesian context, where large scale gated community is not a form of exclusive enclave, it is interesting to study connection between security and segregation. Gated community with gate, wall, or barrier, might be a form of security or function of segregation between classes, or could be both. This paper explores the discourse of security and segregation by observing gating element of the gated community. Three gated communities in Surabaya's peri-urban, Indonesia, are used as a case study. This paper finds gated community is a way to gain security and did not mean to segregate.