The Progress of Indonesia’s Administrative Boundaries Mapping after 72 years of Independence

Bambang Riadi, Tri Patmasari

administrative boundaries, segment, trend.

Administrative boundaries are belong to the fundamental dataset of national base map. These information have an affect to the management of home affairs such as natural resources, tax, land administration, natural disasters. Indonesia proclaimed its independence in 1945. It means, Indonesia is 72 years old in 2017. Now, One Map Policy becomes one of hot issues in Indonesia especially for geospatial society. Every region needs definitive administrative boundaries for their activity but not available yet for all region. This paper aim is toexplain the development or trend of Indonesia’s administrative boundaries mapping after 1945 in order to get the information of Indonesian government performance in the “national boundary making”. The method of this research is comparing the spatial and numerical data of Indonesia’s administrative boundaries which are limited to the province and regency/city boundaries.The result of this research shows that there are 3 significant periods which are affect Indonesia’s administrative boundary mapping i.e. 1998-2005, 2006-2012, and 2013 to this day.The conclusion of this studyis the definitive boundariesof The Republic of Indonesia in 72 years after independence reached 472 segments or 48.31% of total 977 segments.

10.22161/ijaers.5.11.22