The Obstacles of Geographical Information System (GIS) Development: A Study of Teachers' Distribution in Sukabumi, Indonesia

摘要

Geographical Information System (GIS) is an application used to process data in form of thematic maps, which is arranged overlapping to produce informations needed by the user. Employing descriptive method, this study indicated that basically the GIS development was relatively easy, but its sustainability was considered to be difficult. The Education Office of Sukabumi district have built the GIS since 2017, but the absence of GIS manager and operator made it not optimally utilized. To develop sustainable GIS, it is considered to go on these three steps, (1) Increasing the commitment of the leaders of Education Office to optimally utilize GIS in every policy making, (2) Increasing the quality of GIS management to help the process of every policy making, (3) Providing GIS manager and operator bound in official duty in the office.