Vol. 15 No. 2 (2004)

Tourism has an important role in regional development particularly in the improvement of quality of life and human life. Many tourism activities have been developed in hazard areas and consequently it has risks to the disaster. Disaster in tourism areas influences the performance of tourism particularly the number of tourist who visit the areas. The impact of disaster depends on disaster characteristics, vulnerability, and capacity of tourism areas. The impact will be experienced not only by tourist and tourism employees but also by other sectors and population in the area, as well as other…

Infrastructure, unemployment, and other social issues in Jatinangor may potentialy reduced the image of Jatinangor as a university town and implied the decline of the land value. Many concepts have been tried to solve the problems declining image Jatinangor. One of the concept that can be applied on Jatinangor is city marketing, a concept introduced by Philip Kotler and also Ashworth and Boogd. City marketing is a private sector

This paper aims at offering an approach in conceptualizing the agropolitan region by positioning the peasants at the centrum. Employing political economy perspectives it could be identified the pattern and structure of agropolitan space and therefore its classification and typology. Suggestions on regulation to support such concept are proposed.Keywords: ekonomi politik, agropolitan, struktur ruang

Alongside the economic boom experienced in Indonesia during the 1980s and the early 1990s, a remarkable land development for residential purposes has taken place. In Jakarta and its surrounding areas, for instances, the formal private developers were able to sell an average of more than twenty five thousand housing units annually and to transform 16.6 thousand hectares of land into residential areas within 20 years alone. However, due ti the unsound loan management this massive land development is believed to be one of the factors triggering economic crisis in Indonesia. For almost four years…