THE 4 TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN STUDIES December 8 – 9, 2017 Full Paper Guidelines Living in between a slum and a tourist destination area: reconstructing and redefining space in kampung wisata jodipan Manggala Ismanto, Anthropology Brawijaya Irsyad Martias, Anthropology Brawijaya Abstract The municipality of Malang endeavors to rehabilitate the living conditions of people in slums. The big challenges of the top-down policy program are the participation and involvement of the community in the spatial planning. However, some of informal settlements, like Kampung Jodipan, have begun to improve the condition of the neighborhood. Furthermore, Kampung Jodipan becomes one of the slums which make efforts to define and reconstruct the space of their living space by re-coloring the neighborhood landscape like the new favela in Rio, Brazil. By the collaboration of various stakeholders such as private parties and the civil society, the kampung space is redefined into a tourist destination that attracts tourists to visit. Nowadays, Jodipan is popularly known as Kampung Warna-Warni. The spatial changes which rise from the grass root provide the opportunities and challenges for the community to negotiate the process of the urban planning implementation in Malang. As a result, the slum stigma has been alleviated and the public acknowledgments that Kampung Jodipan is being a tourist destination give a chance to inhabitants to gain their right to live in Kampung Jodipan area. The methodology used in this study is qualitative research with the process of collecting data using in-depth interviews and participant observation. Keywords: Slum Area, Tourist Destination, Redifining Space, Kampung Jodipan 1. Introduction Informal settlements, slum areas, are the problems that always arise in urban. According to Jaffe &Koning (2016) all cities around the world have informal settlements where the poor and marginalized people build their houses. Generally, those houses are below standard of living because there are not sufficient housing facilities such as electricity, sanitation and clean water availability. In addition, the houses are built without any legal document. However, creating or establishing informal settlements is an option for urban residents who are unable to access legal housing. Many municipal governments categorize informal settlements as an urban problem. To overcome those problems, in order to improve the social conditions of people living in the slum, relocating is the pragmatic solution (Pellow& Lawrence-Zúñiga, 2014). Malang is one of the cities in Indonesia which have an agenda to rehabilitate the informal settlements. According to Mayoral Decree ( Surat Keputusan Walikota) Number 188.45 / 86 / 35.73.112 / 2015, the size of informal settlement reaches 608.6 Ha, compared to the total area of Malang City (11,606 Ha), the slums area accounts 5.53% (http://dpupr.malangkota.go.id/menuju-malang-kotaku-kota-tan- kumuh/). Furthermore, in Malang City, 29 out of 57 urban villages (kelurahan) are slum areas (e.g. Jodipan, Polehan, Sukun, Kota Lama, Tulusrejo, Ciptomulyo, and Bandulan) (http://suryamalang.tribunnews.com). Geographically, the slum in Malang lies across the Brantas river bank. In urban planning perspective, that area is a part of the protected zone which supports the river ecology. Based on government regulations, there is a plan to govern the building located in river bank area, with a buffer zone 10-15 m. In order to protect the river areas that have the function to anticipate flood and landslide threats, thus, there should be restrictions for human activities in the river bank area, one of which is prohibiting any private infrastructure not to mention housing area(PP No.38 of 2011 on River, Article 17 and Article 22). In 2014, the Mayor of Malang has