
The  population  of  Indonesia  is  continually 
increasing.  In  addition  the  population  spread  is 
becoming  more  uneven,  mainly  because  of  the 
urbanization  that  is  becoming  more  rampant  every 
year.  This  rapid  growth  rate  will  automatically 
increase  the  community's  needs  for  shelter  or 
housing. With people’s increasing levels of need for 
housing,  this  will  increase  the  procurement  of 
housing in Indonesia, primarily in urban areas. This 
has led to an increase in social problems and resulted 
in a  slum  housing  environment that does  not  meet 
health  requirements.  Surabaya,  which  is  also  a 
metropolitan  city  with  rapid  development  and 
becoming  a  common  urbanization  destination,  is  a 
target  of  arising  social  problems.  Problems  arising 
from  the  needs  of  the  community  needs  to  be 
handled  by the  government  immediately,  including 
the procurement of housing for the middle to lower 
economic level of the community. According to the 
United Nations Conference regarding the Problem of 
the Human Environment (1972), more than 1 billion 
people live below standard conditions and it is likely 
that the situation will get worse in the future (WHO 
SEARO,  1986;  WHO  Commission  on  Health  and 
Environment,  2001).  The  housing  situation  is  a 
factor that determines the condition of hygiene and 
environmental sanitation. Overcrowding and narrow 
housing  results  in  high  incidences  of  illness, 
accidents, and other issues (Sukarni, 1995). 
Based on the Household Health Survey (SKRT) 
conducted in 1995 (DG PPM and PL, 2002), the 3rd 
leading cause of death in Indonesia is tuberculosis. 
Tuberculosis, commonly referred to as TB, is closely 
related  to  unhealthy  house  sanitation  conditions. 
Meanwhile, according to the WHO report (2007) on 
Global Tuberculosis Control Surveillance, Planning, 
and Financing stated that Indonesia was ranked fifth 
with the highest number of tuberculosis patients in 
Southeast  Asia  after  Bangladesh,  Bhutan,  DPR 
Korea, and India. 
WHO also reports that 10 to 20 million people 
with  tuberculosis  in  the  world  can  transmit 
tuberculosis. Because of pulmonary tuberculosis, the 
mortality rate is around 3 million patients each year. 
This  situation  is  increasing  and  almost  75%  are 
found  in  low-socio-economic  developing  countries 
(Alsagaaf, 2008). 
The  Annual  Risk  of  Tuberculosis  Infection 
(ARTI)  including  the  risk  of  transmission  of 
tuberculosis  infection  in  Indonesia,  is  considered 
quite  high  and  varies  between  1%  and  3%.  Areas 
with  an  ARTI,  numbers  of  1%  suggest  that  every 
year, of 1,000 residents, ten will be infected. From 
the  infected  people,  only  10%  will  become 
tuberculosis patients. Thus, it can be estimated that, 
in  an  area  with  an  ARTI  of  1%,  among  100,000 
residents there  will be 100 tuberculosis patients on 
average per year, 50 of which will be positive acid-
fast bacilli (MOH, 2002). 
In  Indonesia,  tuberculosis  disease  is  still 
developing. This is related to the deterioration of the 
socio-economic conditions of society, public health 
service facilities that are not yet optimal, the number 
of people, which is continually increasing, many of 
whom  do  not  have  permanent  residence.  The 
development  of  the  disease  is  not  separate  from 
human  behavior;  mainly  the  behavior  of  the 
inhabitants in the house (Sukarni, 1995). 
Based  on  the  Pamekasan  district  health  office 
report  in  2011,  there  were  as  many  as  759  people 
suffering  from  tuberculosis  during  2010.  In 
Pamekasan, from 2011 to May 2018, there were 610 
residents who are known to suffer from tuberculosis. 
The  number  of  tuberculosis  patients  is  mostly 
incrasing  in  three  districts:  District  Palengaan, 
Pasean, and District Palengaan. The number of TB 
patients  in  the  Pamekasan  District  is  high  in  East 
Java,  and  the  government  are  trying  to  implement 
treatment. The government said, Pamekasan District 
was ranked fifth in East Java regarding cases of TB, 
after  Sumenep,  Lumajang,  Malang,  and  Jember. 
According to the latest data from the health services 
for  2012  and  2013,  there  are  three  Community 
Health Centre that successfully identified TB during 
2012.  Palengaan  Health  Community  Center 
identified  111  patients,  the  Pasean  Health 
Community Centre identified 96 patients, and there 
were 68 patients identified by the Waru Community 
Health  Center.  For  the  first  quarter  of  2013,  22 
patients came from Pasean, 19 from Palengaan, and 
17 from Batumarmar Community Health Center. 
It  takes  six  months  of  treatment  to  cure  the 
infectious  disease.  If  within  that  six  months  of 
treatment,  one  day  is  missed,  the  treatment  must 
then start all over again. Drugs are provided free of 
charge  at  every  health  service  center  under  the 
health  agency.  A  house  that  becomes  a  home  and 
shelter for its inhabitants, can guarantee their health. 
A house  assessed  as  having  healthy conditions has 
become  a  determining  requirement  for  the  health 
status of its inhabitants. Components of a house and 
its environment that do not meet health requirements 
are  risk  factors  and  a  source  of  transmission  of 
various types  of  diseases,  especially  environmental 
diseases  (Keman,  2005).  Unhealthy  housing 
conditions  will  have  a  negative  impact  on  human 
health; one impacting result is tuberculosis. Efforts 
to control risk factors that influence the occurrence 
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