Karakteristik Pengembangan Wilayah Sebelum dan Sesudah Pemekaran Kabupaten Jayapura

Abstract

The issue of regional development in Jayapura cannot be separated from the issue of regional division. Expanding a region in Jayapura is essential to create an efficient and effective government, to generate work opportunity, to reduce poverty, and to improve health services as well as education services, followed by increasing the number of infrastructures. Furthermore, expanding the region in Jayapura district aims to equalize the distribution of population and accelerate the development process of the region. This study aims to compare the development of the region in Jayapura before and after the split, to focus on economic, social demography and infrastructure within the time frame of 2002 and 2012. This study uses quantitative method for data processing, with a comparative analysis as an approach to compare variables of economic, social demography and infrastructure. The results showed that the influence of macro expansion in Jayapura district has a positive trend, both from the economic and social aspects of demography. On the micro level, the effect of the expansion in Jayapura on economic aspects in unemployment variable rate showed a trend of negative developments. On the demography aspect, only ratio of teachers to students’ variable that has a negative trend. While, on the infrastructure aspects, showed a trend of positive development. Overall, all the districts in Jayapura has been developing after the expanding of the region.