A Minapolitan Regional Development and Its Application to the Regency of Bombana, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia

摘要

A minapolitan approach is a fishery-based rural development, a new concept of regional development in Indonesia. This approach is expected to strengthen the urban-rural linkages in economic activities and to reduce the gap of urban-rural development. In this study, we develop a minapolitan model based on the existing social and cultural conditions. The study focuses on; (i) analyzing both externally and internally the accessibility of the minapolitan area with its hinterlands; (ii) analyzing the performance of the minapolitan model on the regional economic development, and (iii) formulating a regional development model based on the minapolitan approach. Data were collected from the various local agencies in the district of Poleang and its hinterlands, in the regency of Bombana, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, and analysed by using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative analysis is used to identify the performance variables of both minapolitan and regional economic development such as the availability of suitable area for the development of fishery production. For the quantitative analysis, a gravity analysis approach is used to determine the interaction between the minapolitan area and its hinterlands whereas the accessibility analysis is performed to measure how easy the movement of people or goods to a particular location. The regional configuration of the developed minapolitan model is analysed by using the principal component analysis (PCA). The result of regional potensial analysis shows that the subdistrict of Poleang is a potential area to be the center of the minapolitan region in the district of Bombana. Poleang is connected to and easily accessible either by other regions in Bombana or regions in other districts even other provinces such as the province of South Sulawesi. The Primary Component Analysis shows that only seven variables, out of 10 significant variables in the minapolitan performance system, was considered to determine the total variation and they can be used to cluster all districts in Bombana according to the performance of minapolitan system.