Power Law Signature in Indonesian Population

Ivan Mulianta, Hokky Situngkir () and Yohanes Surya
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Ivan Mulianta: Bandung Fe Institute
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Abstract: The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in two regional terms, i.e.: kabupaten and kotamadya. It is interestingly found that the rank in all kabupaten respect to the population does not have fat tail properties, while in the other hand; there exists power-law signature in kotamadya. We analyzed that this fact could be caused by the equal or similar infrastructural development in all regions; nevertheless, we also note that the first 20 kabupatens are dominated in Java and Sumatera. Furthermore, the fat tail character in the rank of kotamadya could be caused by the big gap between big cities one another, e.g.: Jakarta, Surabaya, and others. The paper ends with some suggestions of more attention to infrastructural development in eastern regional cities.

Keywords: power law; self-organized criticality; cities; population; urbanization; Indonesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2004-09-01
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 9

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