Urbanization Of Indonesia Case Study

1. Introduction Urbanization is a common phenomenon in a country, particularly developing countries such as Indonesia. Urbanization occurs due to factors push and pull that causes people switching to another area. The dominant factor is the economic problem. The reason people move from one area to another in order to increase the community's economy and find better economic resources. It usually occurs in rural communities who migrated to urban area, because they expect a good job there and in urban area able to give their lives more colorful, and hope recording for better pay and higher if living in a urban area. Some factors pointed to drive increased urbanization, such as: First, differences in growth and inequality between village

The level of urbanization of all provinces in Indonesia showed an increase. Five provinces which have enhancement in urbanization, like, Jakarta and East Kalimantan, DI Yogyakarta, North Sumatera and West Java. This is reasonable because the five provinces have the economic attractiveness of higher than other provinces in Indonesia (Chotib, 1997). In the future, the demographers estimate that the process of urbanization in Indonesia will be more due to rural-urban migration. This estimate is based on the natural growth of population in lower in urban areas, the relatively slow pace of change in the status of rural areas into urban areas, as well as the relative strength of economic policy and development, thus increasing the attractiveness of urban areas for people living in rural areas. That is why in the future, the issue of urbanization and mobility or migration becomes difficult to be separated and will be an important issue in the population policy in Indonesia. If in the past and today, the issue of birth (fertility) and death (mortality) still dominate the population policy, in the future when the birth and death rates have become low, family size becomes smaller, and vice versa welfare of the family and society increases, the desire to perform mobility for the majority of the population will increase, and especially towards the urban