Title


Indonesian Journal of Environmental
Management and Sustainability
e-ISSN:2598-6279 p-ISSN:2598-6260

Research Paper

Perception Analysis of The User Against The Open Green Space in The Campus Area of
Sriwijaya University Indralaya

Aries Sandratama1*, Dinar DA Putranto1, Sarino1, Ari Siswanto1,

1 Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sriwijaya, Palembang-Prabumulih Street km.32 Indralaya, South Sumatera, 30662, Indonesia
*Corresponding author e-mail: aries_arch02@yahoo.co.id

Abstract
Sriwijaya University campus area, there is the built environment in the form of buildings and good natural environment, in the form
of open green spaces are scattered throughout the campus of the Sriwijaya University. Empty land behind the campus planned to
be used as open green space that supports the activity of civitas academia campus that includes professors and students. Open
green space in the campus, should ideally have a physical function among other things as a function of aesthetic, micro climate
controller and shading place and provides the convenience of its users to have activity in the open green space. Other green open
spaces function as supporting educational activities, conservation, recreation and identity. The method used is the survey of the
respondents against the respondents using quantitative and qualitative descriptive method. The purpose of the research is to analysis
the perception of green open space for student and lecturer at Faculty of Agriculture of Sriwijaya University Indralaya. The numbers
of respondents are 151 people. Detailed questionnaire is divided into two characteristics; there are economic and social space
requirements. The results of the socio-economic characteristics of the questionnaire are 29.14% of lecturer and student is 70.86%.
Questionnaire characteristics space requirements indicate that there are similarities in the educational activities come within the
open green space at both the lecturer (50.00%) and students (47.66%) which is practical.

Keywords
Users Perception, Open Green Spaces

Received: 20 March 2018, Accepted: 25 May 2018

https://doi.org/10.26554/ijems.2018.2.2.38-41

1. INTRODUCTION

Sriwijaya University is a University in South Sumatra Province
with a land area of approximately 700 Ha is located 38 kilo-
meters south of the city of Palembang and is the Centre of
educational activities for undergraduate level who are doing
development stage Open Green Space. Up to the year 2017
Sriwijaya University campus continues to grow and already
have 10 (ten) Faculties: Faculty of Economics, Faculty of law,
Faculty of medicine, the Faculty of engineering, Faculty of
agriculture, Faculty of teacher training and education, Faculty
of social and political sciences, Faculty of SCIENCES, Faculty
of computer science and the Faculty of public health.

Sriwijaya University campus in the area besides the built
environment in the form of buildings there is also a good natu-
ral environment in the form of open green spaces are scattered
throughout the campus of the University of Sriwijaya and va-
cant land behind the campus that would later serve as open
green space that supports the activity of civitas academica cam-
pus that includes professors and students (McFarland, 2008).

Open green space in the campus, should ideally have a

physical function among other things as a function of aesthetic,
micro climate controller and shading place and provides the
convenience of its users to have activity in the open green space.
Other green open spaces function as supporting educational
activities, conservation, recreation and identity. All functions
of the open green space can be maximized, For it needs to
be done further studies in planning the Setup the shape of
the pattern space needed and the structure of the Green open
space landscape using quantitative and qualitative methods
of descriptive with direct interviews, literature review, �eld
observation and documentation that can accommodate the
needs of every Departments in the faculty as well as be used
as a complementary educational activities by all Departments
which exist as a learning space open.

2. EXPERIMENTAL SECTION

2.1 Research Location
This research was conducted in the area of Argo Training Cen-
ter (ATC) University of Sriwijaya Indralaya Ogan Ilir Regency

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Table 1. The number of samples of the Faculty of agriculture

No Majors/Programs Of Study Lecturer Students

1 Agribusiness 9 27
2 Agroecotechnology 2 10
3 Agronomy 6 9
4 Aquaculture/aquaculture 3 7
5 Plant Protection 3 2
6 Soil Science 5 11
7 Farm 4 11
8 Agricultural Engineering 5 11
9 Fishery Product Technology 3 8
10 Agricultural Technology 4 11

The Number Of Sub Total 44 107
The percentage of (%) 25 75
The Total Number Of 151

Table 2. Characteristics of lecture respondents based on based on the type of educational activities in the area of open green space

Study Program
Educational activities in the area of open green space

Total AmountLab course Farm Nursery Sports Other: Prac-
tice/discussion

Agribusiness 3 2 0 1 3 9
Agroecotechnology 1 1 0 0 0 2
Agronomy 4 2 0 0 0 6
Aquaculture/aquaculture 1 0 2 0 0 3
Plant Protection 1 2 0 0 0 3
Soil Science 5 0 0 0 0 5
Farm 4 0 0 0 0 4
Agricultural Engineering 2 2 0 1 0 5
Fishery Product Technology 1 0 0 1 1 3
Agricultural Technology 0 2 0 1 1 4
The total number of 22 11 2 4 5 44
The percentage of (%) 50 25 4.55 9.09 11.36 100

Figure 1. Research location

2.2 Methods of Data Collection
Data collection aims to collect data and information on the
location of research. The techniques used to collect the data
that corresponds to the object of the study are, as follows:

2.2.1 Literature Study
Method of data collection is done by looking for information
related to open green space area of Education University of
Sriwijaya Indralaya sourced from books, articles in print or
website-the o�cial website and the results of other studies sup-
ports setup of open green space area of the campus of the
University of Sriwijaya Indralaya. Questionnaire is done to the
lecturer of the faculty of Agriculture University of Sriwijaya,
and student representative faculty of agriculture in every de-
partment. Interviews can be conducted using guided interview
or none.

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Table 3. Characteristics of student Respondents based on based on the type of educational activities in the area of open green
space

Study Program
Educational activities in the area of open green space

Total AmountLab course Farm Nursery Sports Other:
Prac-
tice/discussion

Agribusiness 8 6 0 10 3 27
Agroecotechnology 5 4 1 0 0 10
Agronomy 4 3 0 2 0 9
Aquaculture/aquaculture 7 0 0 0 0 7
Plant Protection 1 0 0 0 1 2
Soil Science 6 4 0 1 0 11
Farm 5 1 1 4 0 11
Agricultural Engineering 4 1 0 4 2 11
Fishery Product Technology 4 0 0 4 0 8
Agricultural Technology 7 1 0 2 1 11
The total number of 51 20 2 27 7
The percentage of (%) 47.66 18.69 1.87 25.23 6.54

2.2.2 Field research
The �eld survey carried out using some of the techniques of
approach among others: 1. The techniques of observation, i.e.
direct observations on the activities and behaviors, and students
against lecture open green space in the University campus area
of Srivijaya Indralaya. 2. Engineering interview (interview
techniques), performed by holding a question and answer to
the professors, and students. Deployment of the questionnaire
is done to the lecturer of the Faculty of Agriculture University
of Sriwijaya, and student representative Faculty of agriculture
in every department. Interviews can be conducted using guided
interview or none. 3. Field Note techniques, that is a technique
performed in obtaining data in the �eld by noting the overall
things found good data about the informant/respondent as well
as data about the State of the location of the examination as
a condition of open green space in the area of University of
Sriwijaya Indralaya.

2.3 Method of Sampling
2.3.1 Number of Population
The population here was faculty and students of the Univer-
sity of Sriwijaya Indralaya. The number of population at the
Faculty of agriculture in each Department with the calculation
and distribution of population sampling as follows:

Lecturere=
172 ·100
697

=25%×172=43 (1)

Student =
525 ·100
697

=75%×172=131 (2)

Calculation of the Sample in the agribusiness Department

of faculty Lecturer of agriculture is

Lecturerof agribusiness=
36×100
172

=21samples (3)

Lecturerof agribusiness=
21×43
100

=9samples (4)

2.3.2 Sample Determination
Sampling techniques in the study using the determination of
the total population of respondents used method Strati�ed
Random Sampling. The calculation of the amount of sample of
lecturer and students that will be put to individual departments
in the Faculty of agriculture is shown in Table 1.

3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

3.1 Qualitative Analysis based on Respondents
Data characteristics is necessary to know the behavior of users
of open green space to development of open green space cam-
pus. Based on the table above it can be concluded that the
average educational activities performed in the area of open
green space is Practical/Circling of 50%, 25% farm planting,
at 11% Asian, 9.09% and 4.55% Sports utilized for breeding
Primary data collection was carried out for almost two weeks,
on February 25 – March 8, 2018, with the use of a detailed
questionnaire and interview survey method in location of the
Faculty of Agriculture of these Characteristics include 2 (two)
aspects of characteristics, i.e. social characteristics of users
and the characteristics of the space requirements at Sriwijaya
University, Indralaya.

In this case, the selected respondent was restricted in the
Faculty of Agriculture University of Sriwijaya Indralaya i.e.

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Table 4. Recapitulation of the characteristics prospective users of open green space based on the respondent’s professors and
students

Characteristic
Respondent

Lecturer (%) Students (%)

Socio-Economic Characteristics
The status of the 44 people (29,14) 107 people (70,86)
Places to stay Palembang (68,18) Indralaya (campus) dan In-

dralaya (outside campus)
(39,25)

Semester - semester 8 (31,78)
Characteristics Of Space Requirements
Motivation in the area of open green space Circling/Lab Course

(50,00)
Recreation (48,60)

Educational activities in the area of open green space Lab course (50,00) Lab course (47,66)
The type of land that is suitable dry (72,73) Moist (43,93)
types of facilities and infrastructure in open green space Open space (43,18) Open space (30,84)
time activities in open green space the morning (06-10)

(50,00)
the afternoon (15-18)
(69,16)

old activities at open green space 1-3 hours (72,73) 1-3 hours (62,62)
the supporting infrastructure are in need in open green
space

A place of worship and
seat (25,00)

WiFi (32,71)

estimates of the frequency of visits Once in a week and
rarely (1-3 times a week)
(38,64)

Quite often (3-6 times a
week) (27,10)

The characteristics of estimation number of peo-
ple/students in Open Green Space

> 10 people (63,64) > 10 people (47,66)

lecturers and students. From the results of a questionnaire,
151 distributions then obtained the number of respondents to
the Faculty of Agriculture University of Sriwijaya Indralaya
i.e. as much as 44 respondents Lecturer 29.14% and 107% of
student respondents 70.86.

3.2 Quantitative Analysis based on Respondents
As for the results of the analysis of the characteristics of the
potential candidate users open green space will be covered in
more detail in the following:

3.2.1 Social characteristics of the User
Measurement of the characteristics of the user is based on social
status, place of residence, and semester.

3.2.2 Characteristics of space requirements
Measurement of the characteristics of space requirements based
on the place of doing routines that most often, the primary
motivation if it is in the area of green space, this type of edu-
cational activities in the area of open green space, the type of
land that is suitable for your �eld, Type land that is suitable
for your �eld, timing of activities in open green space, old ac-
tivities during the open green space, ancillary infrastructure
do you need for activities in open green space, an estimate

of the frequency of visits and how the estimated number of
people/students in the conduct of activities in the open green
space. The characteristic can be seen in Table 2-4.

Based on the above table it can be seen that out of a total
100% or respondents there are as many as 107 47.66% or
51 (�fty-one) student respondents chose teaching, as for the
majority of the respondents were students of soil science, and
livestock.

4. CONCLUSIONS

The results of the socio-economic characteristics of the ques-
tionnaire for lecturer and student are 29.14% and 70.86%.
Characteristics of space requirements questionnaire indicates
that there are similarities in the educational activities come
within the open green space at both the lecturer (50.00%) and
students (47.66%) that is practical.

REFERENCES

McFarland, A. (2008). Relationship Between Student Use
of Campus Green Spaces and Perceptions of Quality of
Life. Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Horticultura
Technology, 18; 196–319

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	INTRODUCTION
	EXPERIMENTAL SECTION
	Research Location 
	Methods of Data Collection 
	Literature Study
	Field research

	Method of Sampling
	Number of Population
	Sample Determination


	RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
	Qualitative Analysis based on Respondents
	Quantitative Analysis based on Respondents
	Social characteristics of the User
	Characteristics of space requirements


	CONCLUSIONS