Agropolitan Development in Merapi Disaster Affected Areas

Abstract

Magelang Regency is a strategic city in Central Java. The regency has famous tourist destination objects such as Borobudur Temple, besides the fertile climate and soil conditions are an invaluable asset to support agribusiness development. The position of the boundary line between the city area roomates becomes the product market and the village that the production buffer zone may be developed into a competitive Agropolitan region. The obstacles that arise are Magelang Regency is the affected area of Mount Merapi activity, in addition to causing fertility in agricultural land, and the tectonic earthquake eruption become obstacles to the development of potential areas of Merapi disaster, due to the high of physical hazards such as infrastructure damage. The direction of this paper is to look for potential Agropolitan location references with the guarantee of infrastructure service support, the disaster zone equality into a node that connects the area of agribusiness-producing regions in all regency in Magelang regency. The LQ and KS methods are used to bridge the analysis studies in this paper.