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Improving health care service access for the poor is a complex and challenging effort. Various health care facilities are often located in hardly accessible spots for the poor. This research seeks to develop policy options that can be used to create primary health care services became more accessible to the poor. A mobile facility-based health care service system or a service system which allows accessible health facility for the society, especially the poor, needs to be developed. This system needs regulation, institutional, human resources and financial support, and also good coordination among institutions which have related functions and duty on primary health care services.

Gated communities grow fast in Yogyakarta, not only among middle-up class, but also middle-lower class in ‘kampung’. Social dynamics of urban society have increased the complex social problems. Urban social problems such us criminality, has made urban dwellers anticipate it by putting extra security in their homes. Urban community tries to secure their homes and their circumstances by using several things, such as installing tall entrance gates surrounding their residential areas or paying more for security guards. This research is aimed at capturing how far social changes has emerged after this so-called “gated community” has rapidly grown in Indonesian society. Using the case of Yogyakarta city, this paper tries to describe the phenomenon of “gated communities” into more comprehensive account.