Spatial analysis of educational facilities services pattern in Malang peripheral areas

Abstract

Educational facilities in Indonesia has important function especially to enhance and support community activities, and it's must be provided for all settlement areas. In general, provision of educational facilities still carried out on the basis of population size and spatial availabilities until now, which means for the new facilities development used the scale and capacity of services analysis on related facility. This study conducted based on the characteristics of facility services especially on elementary school facilities on traditional or historical cities. As previous study that had been carried out, the measurement was done with the cell/grid catchment (CGC) analysis to identify the service rates from each areas. Based on the analysis result, rate of elementary school services in the Malang City peripheral areas defined by the grid/cell approach was 134% and it was lower than Malang Regency areas rate with 247%. The pattern of school services in Malang City areas relatively similar between its districts while in the Malang Regency areas has significant differences especially southern and northern districts.