The Pleasant Settlement In Garden For Taqwa Communities a Synthactic Jannah Concept

Abstract

Issue of the moslems settlement have bee n debated for quite long time among the theories and practices. Many Indonesian moslems are not living in a good environment not less, they are living in marginal economic in squatr, slum area, and in formal activities, such as valley, vacant lards, incluiding greeness area and marginal phery-phery. Al-Qur’an provides a direction for a better life and living. The Moslems oght to live in the settlement as well as Jannah. But how does the Jannah concept realized?. In Al Qur`an, eight of Jannah word interpretated as the pleasant settlement in gardens. It`s something like a garden city urban design theory that populated by non moslem in 1898. This theory has long been taking inspiration from the human longing to Jannah firdaus. In Indonesia, the tropical garden city artefac is founding in Menteng – Jakarta, Bogor City, Cibeunying - Bandung, Candi - Semarang and Malang City as good ecology colonial settlement. Is not the Jannah concept better than the garden city theory ? Why does moslem less planning and living in the settlement as well as garden city? Therefore, the main idea of this paper is  focussed on the synthactical process of Jannah concept to identif settlement concept for moslem communities. Bandung City is a good case to analyze the practice of garden city theory on synthactical process of the Jannah concept.