Rural-Urban Integration in Java
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Vincent Rotg, was bom in France in 1959. He is the holder of a Ph.D in Geography with a specialization in economic geography and regional development from Sorbonne University (Paris IV), and he studied at Yale University, USA, where he was granted a Masters Degree in Environmental Design. He was also granted a M.Phil (DEA) in Development Studies with a specialization in geopolitics by the School for Higher Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, in 1987, and a professional diploma in architecture and physical town planning in Paris in 1983. Since 1998, he has been the Operations Project Manager for a EC-sponsored decentralized cooperation programme, which focuses on urban development projects in South and Southeast Asia. Prior to this, he was involved on behalf of the European Commission with the Commissions programmes for the revitalization of European inner-cities (Urban Pilot Projects UPP) and the employment of youth, and he was the Team Leader of the Rural Towns Development Study (RTDS) appraisal mission in Bangladesh. As a Visiting Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), Paris University, he taught courses on Indonesia and Southeast Asia between 1996 and 1997. In 1993, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Between 1989 and 1992, Vincent Rotg was a researcher at the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) in Nagoya, Japan. While at UNCRD, as the team leader of 10 assistants and university counterparts within the framework of a 4-year programme initiated by UNCRD and the Government of Indonesia, he designed and implemented fieldwork in villages of Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia, on the implications of the strengthening of rural-urban linkages for the development of hinterland communities. This included the study of forward and backward economic linkages, local resources and demographics, agricultural and nonagricultural income, income disparities, labour mobility and remittances.
Vincent Rotg has published and presented papers on metropolitan development and land-use policies in industrialized countries, and on rural-urban linkages, employment, and regional integration in Asia.
Ida Bagoes Mantra , was bom in Bali in 1931. He graduated from the Faculty of Geography of Gadjah Mada University (FG-UGM), Yogyakarta, in 1964, and was granted a Ph.D. in Population Geography by the University of Hawaii in 1978. Ida Bagus Mantra holds a chair in Population Geography at Gadjah Mada University, and is a senior researcher at the Population Research Centre (PPK) of the same university. He was appointed visiting professor at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 1994.
Prof. Mantra has presented papers in various conferences on Population Mobility and published his work in Indonesia and abroad, such as: Population Movement in Wet Rice Communities (Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1981), and Urbanization in Indonesia (Nagoya: UNCRD Working papers series, 1990). His work on demography is published in textbooks, which are widely used in Indonesian universities.
Ryanto Rijanta , was born in Yogyakarta in 1962. He graduated from the Faculty of Geography of Gadjah Mada University with a specialization in Population Geography in 1986, and obtained a Masters of Science Degree on Survey Integration for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC) in Enschede, The Netherlands, in 1990.
He is a permanent staff-member of the Department of Rural and Regional Development Planning at the Faculty of Geography of Gadjah Mada University (FG-UGM), and a researcher at the Centre for National Development Planning Studies at the same university. Ryanto Rijanta has published articles in national academic journals in Indonesia.
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Background of this Work
In 1989, the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) and the Ministry of Public Works, Government of Indonesia, established a joint-programme in development planning. The Special Region of Yogyakarta (D.I.Y.), one of the most densely populated and oldest settled regions in Asia, was selected as a pilot-area. This programme included several different research and evaluation projects. One important component of the programme was to assess the role and prospect of increasing rural-urban linkages for the development process and planning of Yogyakarta Special Region, and beyond this monographic work which is useful for the planning of this specific region, to draw lessons and conclusions for other Indonesian and ASEAN subnational regions.
This book draws from the result of the fieldwork conducted in Yogyakarta Special Region in 1991 and 1992, with the aim of assessing the consequences of the strengthening of urban-rural linkages upon local development in five hinterland communities. Emphasis was laid on employment issues especially with regard to diversification of the economy and the process of urbanization in suburban communities for socioeconomic and physical changes. This work required intense effort and care during the initial fieldwork and data-processing phases, both in Indonesia and at the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) in Nagoya, Japan. The rural-urban linkages evaluation project was coordinated by Vincent Rotg who designed the research objectives, organized and attended to the overall fieldwork in Indonesia, undertook the enormous task of statistical analysis, and edited the research material, a large part of which he also wrote. The Regional Planning Board (BAPPEDA) of Yogyakarta Special Region and the Ministry of Public Works of Indonesia provided their continuous support. This, together with the generous hospitality of the residents of the studied communities, enabled those involved to bring this project to a successful conclusion.
