PENELUSURAN POSISI KOTA SEMARANG PADA SISTEM PERKOTAAN SEJAK MASA PRA KOLONIAL DALAM TULISAN-TULISAN SEJARAH INDONESIA:

Abstract

Semarang is one of big port cities in Jawa. Compared to other big port city like Jakarta or Surabaya, Semarang is relatively underdeveloped specially in this public services, physical infrastructure, and economic growth. The planology reason is that the city located in between two big poles; Jakarta and Surabaya, inthe periphery boundary. For some reasons, Semarang was included in the Regional IV, which Jakarta was the center of the region. After the 1999 crisis, Semarang became a very small economy growth and its position degraded from quadrant Il to III. It is not the worst,since some other big cities have also experienced the same thing. For example, both Jakarta and Surabaya went to quadrant IV. Considering Semarang's positicin in the colonial era, which was very important, the recent situation is not happy end story. It is, of cource, an accumulation of a long procces of events, involved many factors and actors, or started since the early exixtence ofSemarang itself caused by its intrinic natural and geographic potentialities. This study is thrying to reveal Semarang is real condition in the economic location sence, through readings and studies on Semarang, both alone and in group with other cities in Indonesia, started from its early development inthe precolonial era until recent situation after crisis in the reformation era. The aim is to see the city's position changes other's, chronologically