ABSTRACT
The role of a house in human life is not just a place to live in but also in forming the shape of human life. However, in displacement cases where many houses can no longer be inhabited by various forces, this attachment is severely damaged. The psychological damage caused by force-displacement affected thousands of households in the 2006 mud-flow disaster in Sidoarjo. Therefore an attachment with a new house needs to be built. This paper explores how displaced persons perceived their new settlement and what factors significantly influence people's dwelling on forced displacement cases. A set of questions and questionnaires were given to displaced persons who were the victims of Sidoarjo Mud-Flow. From this research, we found that besides the length of residence, so many factors stimulated the sense of places such as social bonding to community and environmental compatibility that led displaced persons to dwell in their new environment. However, there seems to be a lack of sufficient consideration concerning the psychological needs of affected people for the decision-making of relocation shelter.
