The concept of sustainability and adaptability of tourism Kampung in the Covid-19 era.

Kampung in Indonesia is well known as one of the character urban form, in which it has various condition as well as their way of living. In general, a kampung is sat as an urban informal settlement for low-income people which separate in many locations, such as along the riverbank or railway, around the urban waste disposal, etc. Nevertheless, some kampung are situated in the downtown or around the Malang Square as the most expensive area. Usually, kampung performs as a high density settlement, less of infrastructure, and supported by informal economic activities. Realized that kampung have some problems, develop a concept by themselves and some of them are supported by government, private and university. Various efforts have been made in supported kampung improvement programs, then it become a mass movement, and also supported by public – private – university program using kampung design competitions. The results of improving some programs were vary widely, but in generally it makes better conditions, in terms of increasing environmental quality, better residential infrastructure, better social participation, and increasing family income. Among the various efforts made, it turns out that many have succeeded in changing the stigma of a slum and dense kampung to be more livable and even a tourist destination, then in general it supports the concept of sustainability. In the early 2020, all of the word suffers caused of Covid-19 pandemic, in which almost all of economic and social activities are sharply decreased or even stopped up to the new normal is applied, some activities are to be conducted, but in fact, it was still limited, including tourism. After entering micro-scale social restriction, the number of covid sufferer were decrease, namely between level 3 to 4, various activities can begin to be carried out, including implementation of schools, worship and many activities using the health protocol in various form. Therefore, an adaptive concept is needed as a way out for the Covid-19 problem which aims to develop and restore tourist kampung, as well as sustainability needed. This concept is structured with an approach that combines scaling methods, sustainable concepts and health protocol standards for tourism development. The result of this research can be implemented in kampung tourism than it has the possibility for widespread in many kampung. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]