Urban Population Growth and Their Implication to Agricultural Land in the Process of Metropolitanization: The case of Kabupaten Sukoharjo, in Metropolitan Surakarta

Abstract

Extended urban spatial formation has been a major phenomena in many cities’ development, in Indonesia, including big, medium and smaller size of cities. Using the case which occurred in the Kabupaten Sukoharjo, an adjacent kabupaten of the City of Surakarta, this paper discusses the process of population growth, land expansion and their impact on the agricultural land outside the city’s perimeter, in the metropolitanization process of Surakarta as a secondary metropolitan growth in Java based on a medium city size as the core of the metropolitan. The analysis applies time-serial statistical data gathered from the kabupaten’s monographs. It also applies comparative analysis among the kecamatan (districts) in the kabupaten that are classified into two types of kecamatan: the adjacent and the non-adjacent. The analysis indicates a dramatic changing of urban land, which confirmed the impact of uncontrolled urbanization into agricultural land in the peripheries in terms of losing of fertile agricultural land. It also indicates that the process leads to the needs to develop other agricultural land to substitute the loss of fertile agricultural land. Therefore, the analysis indicates the double impacts of metropolitanization process into agricultural land, such as: the loss of fertile agricultural land in its peri-urban and the implication of efforts in producing fertile land in other areas.

Dynamics and Predictions of Urban Expansion in Java, Indonesia: Continuity and Change in Mega-Urbanization

“…During this timeframe, it is evident that there was an increase in built-up areas and a decrease in rice fields which also can be seen in some previous research [51,[57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68]. Rice fields are more susceptible to conversion into built-up areas as they are often located in regions highly coveted for urban development or infrastructure projects [33,63,[69][70][71][72]. Consequently, the economic value of these lands tends to rise, driving the conversion into built-up areas [73].…”

“…more susceptible to conversion into built-up areas as they are often located in regions highly coveted for urban development or infrastructure projects [33,63,[69][70][71][72]. Consequently, the economic value of these lands tends to rise, driving the conversion into builtup areas [73].…”

The impact of transportation growth on the increase SO2 and NO2 gases in Surakarta City during 2013 - 2020

“…The development of air pollution of NO2 and SO2 gases was analyzed using time series to determine the spatial process and trends in the development of NO2 and SO2 gases that occurred during the period 2010 -2020. Time series analysis can be used to analyze and compare temporal data over a certain period of time, time series analysis can also be used to find out the spatial pattern distribution of certain phenomena over a period of time [37,38]. This study aims to determine impact transportation developments on increase in air pollution of SO2 and NO2 gases in Surakarta City during 2013 -2020.…”

Transformasi Wilayah Kabupaten Demak Sebagai Kawasan Pinggiran di dalam Proses Metropolitanisasi Semarang

“…Pada tahun 2000, Kabupaten Demak memiliki kepadatan penduduk rata-rata 1.092 jiwa/km 2 dan mengalami peningkatan pada tahun 2020 menjadi 1.291 jiwa/km 2 . Mardiansjah et al (2019) menjelaskan bahwa pola pembangunan kawasan/kota juga dapat dilihat dari perubahan atau transformasi demografis dan populasi perkotaan di suatu kawasan, yang juga dipengaruhi oleh adanya reklasifikasi wilayah dari kawasan yang terkategori sebagai perdesaan di suatu masa menjadi terkategori perkotaan pada masa selanjutnya. Perubahan status kawasan ini juga mengubah status penduduknya menjadi penduduk perkotaan, yang turut mempengaruhi jumlah penduduk perkotaan secara keseluruhan.…”