Social and cultural behavior in handling urban issues: The case of Surabaya, Indonesia

Abstract

This article analyses the social, cultural, and religious activity to cope with the issues that are caused by the city overcapacity. City life can be something called very modern where everyone seems to be rushing and minding their own life, but despite all that, people who live in the city would also lean towards something to let them go through severe urban problems. The previous studies mostly underline the needs of people to deal with issues that occurred as the consequence of overcapacity in rational and mechanical ways. However, those works are mainly failed to answer the question of how things work. This study, on the other hand, showcases how Surabaya people in social, and cultural activities to manage the city's complications caused by its overcapacity. The Surabaya People's way may provide a novel approach out of those issues. The apparent behavior of those unique ways is expressed in the word of Yo Opo Enake (let us make it simpler), as the way out of from the problems.