INTEGRATED AND SUSTAINABLE SPATIAL SYSTEM OF PRIMARY EDUCATION FACILITIES WITH HIERARCHICAL LOCATION-ALLOCATION ANALYSIS IN YOGYAKARTA CITY

Abstract

Yogyakarta City, which is known as the ‘City of Education’ in Indonesia, still have problem on children access to primary education. The number of junior high school is unable to accommodate all of elementary school graduates. This condition obstructs student’s access to continue their education to a higher level. School site planning is very pivotal for equitable access to quality education. This research aims to guarantee integrated and sustainable education by analyzing primary education in a hierarchical location-allocation analysis with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Hierarchical analysis is used to solve the problem of school spatial coverage and continuation. Educational facilities flow from low-level (elementary schools) to high-level (junior high schools). The different schools locations are tiered, interrelated, and interact significantly where each level of the hierarchy will have different criteria of capacity and spatial range. This research indicates that it is very necessary to add number of elementary school and junior high school in certain area of Yogyakarta City so that the hierarchical flow of educational facilities runs more effective. The appropriate hierarchy will be able to optimize primary education facilities services. Further research is needed to optimize primary education services with site location analysis.

Keywords

• hierarchy
• school
• location