Vol. 28 No. 2 (2017)

. This study intends to open a new discourse about the role and position of the center in the field of regional and urban planning by using it as a metaphor. By using a metaphoric deconstruction method, the study examines the changes in geopolitical order and in the concept of the center in the Land of Sunda, which based on the swidden tradition as an implication of Hindu and Islamic influences. The study shows that from before the arrival of Hinduism until the height of Islamic power in the 15th century, the geopolitical order in the Land of Sunda has transformed from (1) an egalitarian…

. Central to managing urban growth in the new millennium is understanding the role and nature of the resilience shown by residents and communities in growing towns and cities, and especially in what can be termed the informal city. Urban resilience is defined as the ability of cities to manage and adapt to change, and includes robustness, mitigation and adjustment at all levels. On the other hand, the informal city is about spaces, places and communities where residents adapt to the circumstances at hand using locally based rules, processes and governance. These actions are generally

. Pekanbaru is the capital of Riau which is well known as a business city with a strategic location between the trade routes of Sumatera. The city obviously has Siak River as its tourism potential. However, the river, which is one of the deepest and longest rivers in Indonesia, lately is no longer be the face of the city and is not managed optimally. This study can support the reviving of the river through riverfront tourism development. This study will discuss the consideration of development elements of riverfront tourism for Siak River, focusing on the urban villages of Kampung Bandar and…

. Social capital is a multi-faceted concept and is connected to all human interactions. We have simplified human interaction among three agents (young, adult, and old) and tried to develop an economic approach between social capital investment and migration decisions in rural areas in Indonesia. We divided the investment of social capital among human interactions of three agents living in three periods using overlapping generation theory. Social capital is made up of optimal individual investment decisions and accumulation processes. By utilizing a prototype of optimal individual investment…

. Gunung Leuser National Park (GLNP) in Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia was allocated to protect and preserve its local biodiversity. GLNP implements a national park management policy that adopts a zoning system which includes core, wilderness, rehabilitation, traditional use, utilization and other zones. Population growth causes land cover changes in GLNP and in its buffer zone. One of the approaches to assessing rapid land cover changes is by employing a remote sensing approach. The purposes of this study are: (1) to analyze land cover change between the periods of 1996, 2005 and 2014;…

. This article aims to develop a model of human resources (HR) performance measurement for the nutmeg oil (Myristica fragrans) agro-industry in Aceh based on the Human Resource Scorecard (HRSC) method. The study uses the Relief method of system formulation to assess the effect of key performance attributes and to determine the association rules to facilitate the performance measurement system by taking into account the relationships between the attributes based on the support value and confidence value using Association Rules Mining (ARM). The analysis and design of the system are conducted…