Urban slum area is related to the high prevalence
of TB.11 Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, is a highly
populated urban area of Indonesia which has a
distinctive condition of TB burden and a wide
variety of community. It is necessary to analyze
underlying problems before developing further
strategy to sustain existing achievements and address
remaining constraints and challenges.12 Despite its
large access to both public and private health care
services, Jakarta’s TB prevalence is higher than
national prevalence.3 Plausible factors underlying
this problem, instead of availability of health care
services, are social determinants. This study aims to
obtain social determinants of community knowledge
and perception of pulmonary TB.