Kajian Isu Pemekaran di Kota Medan: Tinjauan Berdasarkan Kondisi Ketimpangan Wilayah

Abstract

Generally, disparities between regions and inter-regions happened because of concentration, agglomeration, external factors, globalization, internal factor, grouping, critical growth or polar development, institution involvement in economic activities. Initially development in Medan concentrated in several sub-districts as the center of government and trade activities. Based on long-term development plan of Medan 2006-2025, stated that development policy in Medan not notice of the regional gap. Disparities development between north and south of Medan are the problems for segregation issue at fourth sub-districts in the northern part of Medan. The purpose of this research is to analyze the gap condition in economic, social demography and the infrastructure’s service in Medan related to the emergence of segregation issue in North Medan. The analysis that used in research is descriptive statistic analysis, analysis of statistical correlation, crosstab analysis, and verification of statistic results using interview method so that at the end of the research will be generated economic, social demography and infrastructure services index for every sub-district in the Medan to know the development difference. The result of correlation analysis shows that there was a correlation between disparity and segregation issue. Descriptive analysis produce the index for four sub-districts in the north side have the medium category while 17 sub-districts in the south have a good category. Crosstab analysis shows that there is a correlation between disparities condition and the emergence of segregation issue. Crosstab analysis also shows that variable education facilities (senior high school), population density, and labor variables show the disparity condition significantly.