of digital infrastructure which includes high speed
internet, and digital capabilities in an effort to
support the Making Indonesia 4.0 Road Map. The
infrastructure development will involve investment
cooperation between the government, the public and
the private sector in the field of digital technology
such as cloud, data center, security management, and
broadband infrastructure.
Indonesia itself, as reported by APJII
(Association of Indonesian Internet Service
Providers), internet users in 2017 have reached
143.26 million people, equivalent to 54.7% of the
total population of the Indonesian people (APJII,
2018b). This number shows an increase from the
previous year (132.7 million people). The latest data
shows that the number of internet users in Indonesia
in 2018 has reached 171.18 million or 64.8% of
Indonesia's total population of 264.16 million
(Kusnandar, 2019). Most internet users in Indonesia
are dominated by people in Java (55%), followed by
Sumatra (21%), Kalimantan (9%), and the rest
Sulawesi, Maluku and Papua (10%), as well as Bali
and Nusa Tenggara ( 5%).
Therefore, in the millennial era marked by the
4.0 industrial revolution characterized by
digitalization on all lines, internet service providers
were required to improve the quality of their
services, including the scope of their operations. Not
only are ISPs (Internet Service Providers) preparing
themselves to improve their service infrastructure,
but also cellular mobile telecommunications
operators as mobile internet providers. Cellular
telecommunications operators operating in Indonesia
have 5, namely Telkomsel, XL Axiata, Indosat,
Three, and Smartfren (Ariansyah, 2014). The five
operators, based on a survey of the Emarketer
Digital Marketing Research Institute, are expected to
serve more than 100 million active smartphone users
in 2018 (Rahmayani, 2015). Keep in mind,
smartphones are the most widely used devices when
accessing the internet beside a computer / laptop. Its
use is also spread to several areas as follows, in
urban areas smartphone ownership reaches 70.96%,
rural urban (45.42%), and rural (42.06%). The use of
computers themselves tends to be stagnant, namely
urban area (31.55%), rural urban (23.42%), and rural
(23.83) (APJII, 2018a). With the description of these
conditions, Indonesia is projected to rank fourth in
the world with the largest active smartphone users in
the world, under China, India and US.
Yogyakarta city, which is a heterogeneous
community, is also not expected to be much
different in circumstances related to cell phone use.
The need for cellular communication networks in the
city which can be said as a representation of
Indonesia's diversity is increasing from year to year.
To improve service quality and coverage of cellular
network areas, cellular operators such as Telkomsel,
XL Axiata, Indosat, Three, and Smartfren, build
more telecommunications towers (BTS / Base
Transceiver Station towers) in certain locations in
the city. The location of the tower placement must
be in accordance with business interests that are in
line with the regulatory aspects (Fauzi, 2014;
Widyatmoko & Mauludiyanto, 2015). But the
problem arises when one operator and another
operator points to the same area to set up a tower.
The existence of several towers in an area will
certainly damage the environment visually, and
potentially lead to rejection from the community
(Hidayah, 2015; Zam/din, 2014). Even according to
a research, the existence of 1 telecommunications
tower (BTS tower) alone has the potential to disrupt
the environment in terms of beauty (Nagle, 2012).
The solution to this problem is usually to use 1
tower that can be used together. The solution will be
even better if there is a treatment for the tower itself.
The intended treatment is to give a different visual
appearance to the tower. The visual appearance is
usually applied to monopole type towers (1 pole)
which are then referred to as camouflage towers.
To suit the city of Yogyakarta which has a
variety of nicknames, from city students, city
tourism, cities of struggle, cities of culture, cities of
artists, to cities that are warm, it is necessary to
design a visual form of camouflage BTS towers that
are in harmony with the environmental conditions in
the area . Some designs have been obtained with a
visual form of taking inspiration and philosophy of
the local community, by applying the criteria that
have been formulated in previous research, namely
friendly design, proportional, safe, redesign, and
thematic (Jayadi & Prasetya, 2017), and in
accordance with the zone where the tower was built
(Jayadi & Prasetya, 2018).
2 MATERIAL AND METHOD
2.1 Camouflage Tower
Why is it called a camouflage tower? So called
because the tower design is able to disguise its
existence in the middle of the environment where
the tower was erected. Camouflage was originally
known as one of the techniques to defend animals in
the face of threats. Camouflage is the deployment of
all abilities involving colour, lighting, or materials to