ANALISA KARAKTERISTIK PERGERAKAN KE KAWASAN INDUSTRI ROKOK DI KABUPATEN KUDUS (STUDI KASUS KAWASAN MEGAWON KECAMATAN JATI KABUPATEN KUDUS)

Abstract

ABSTRACT The development of activity centers located in Kudus makes the town the most frequently visited area for that kind of activities. The residents of areas around Kudus work in the town because Kudus is an industrial and trade center. The number of people visiting and work in the town then causes the occurrence of settlement regions in Kudus. Amongst the types of industry that grow in Kudus are rattan manufacture, wood-made furniture, the industry of sack production, industries in the field of electronics such as the manufactures of active speakers, television, television tube, radio, tape-recorder, paper industry and printing, textile and cigarette industries. One of the industries that become the main icon of Kudus is cigarette industry, even the huge range of the industry in the town emerge a popular slogan of “Kudus Kota Kretek” or “Kudus the Cigarette Town.” It is understandable since the industry of cigarette is considerably huge. It is noted that from this cigarette industry, as many of 100.000 work forces have been employed in the industry that spread in many factories and braks throughout the region. The braks here refer to places in which the cigarettes are produced manually using human capital. The activities in the braks are the processes of rolling the cigarettes, cutting the tip of tobacco so that will be neater and packing the cigarettes. Currently, the biggest cigarette industry is PT. Djarum with total number of work forces more than 50,000 men which are distributed in lots of braks region throughout Kudus. The entire braks owned by PT. Djarum is 25 with production capacities approximately 58,000,000 cigarettes per day. One of the braks of PT. Djarum located in Megawon has the biggest number of employees. The Megawon region that is situated in the subdistrict of Jati, Kudus is one of the regions that become the location of cigarette brak of PT. Djarum. The brak in the Megawon region itself has 8000 employees with production capacity of 9,000,000 cigarettes a day. The problem in this research is how the trip attraction habit pattern to the Megawon region in the Jati subdistrict, Kudus, considering the number of work forces that mobile to the region is high enough. It is also that the Megawon is a settlement region, so that it needs an identification of trip attraction habit pattern in the region. It is hoped, therefore, that the identification will provide an advantage to increase the development and arrangement of the region in Megawon, Kudus as well as the need of means and infrastructure of transportation. The administrative area of Kudus regency constitute of areas as large of 42,515,664 hectare that administratively consists of 9 subdistricts, 124 villages, and 7 sub-subdistricts. The town is situated on the regional transportation lane of Semarang-Kudus-Surabaya, Jepara-Kudus-Surakarta.