title: Urban development patterns in Indonesia.
abstract: The author examines recent urban development in Indonesia. "Analysis of urban developments in Indonesia has been hampered in the past by weak data.  Recently, the National Urban Development Strategy (NUDS) project has generated a set of improved data.  This paper aims at elaborating and supplementing the NUDS study.  After a discussion of definitional problems, an analysis is carried out of urban growth rates at the provincial level.  Private investment is shown to be a principal determinant of urban growth rates.  Other significant determinants are rural immigration and the present level of urbanisation.  Private investment is shown to be strongly biased towards provinces with large urban areas.  In addition, polarisation is studied at the level of individual cities.  It is found that a period of rapidly increasing polarisation has come to an end during the last decade."
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rietveld
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001210:Asia, Southeastern; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005376:Financial Management; D005843:Geography; D007214:Indonesia; D007449:Investments; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D017149:Private Sector; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Asia; Data Analysis; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Financial Activities; Geographic Factors; Indonesia; Investments; Macroeconomic Factors; Measurement; Migration; Migration, Internal; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Growth; Private Sector; Reliability; Research Methodology; Rural-urban Migration; Socioeconomic Factors; Southeastern Asia; Spatial Distribution; Urban Spatial Distribution--changes; Urbanization