LEARNING MEDIA

OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

BY
Hariyanto

ECONOMIC
GEOGRAPHY
KNOWING ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
ALTHOUGH SOME BASIC IDEA ON ECONOMIC
GEOGRAPHY WAS TAKEN BY ECONOMY, BUT STILL THE
ESSENCE OF GEOGRAPHY. BECAUSE OF ASSESSING
OF GEOGRAPHY IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
SPACE-TIME-AND BEHAVIOR, SO ITS CREATED THE
DIFFERENCE OF APPEARANCE PHYSICAL-CULTURE
BETWEEN ONE AND OTHER AREAS.

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY FOR ANSWERS

WHERE IS THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

LOCATED?
WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISITC OF
THE ECONOMIC ACT?
FOR WHAT OTHER PHENOMENA IS THE
ECONOMIC ACT RELATED?

QUESTION LATER ADDED

WHY IS THE ECONOMIC ACT

LOCATED WHERE IT IS ?
WOULD IT NOT BE BETTER LOCATED
ELSEWHERE, TO BETTER SATISFY
CERTAIN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
CRITERIA?.

Analysis The Structured content

of Place
1.
2.
3.

Density (Kepadatan)
Dispersion (persebaran)
Pattern (pola)

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ECONOMIC

ACTIVITIES AND NON ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

Economic activities is oriented towards profit

(commercial). Examples : TKI (Indonesian
Workers)
Non-economic activities are not profitoriented. Examples housewife, SAR etc.

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
1.

2.
3.

PRIMER (activities are related to the

exploitation of natural resources
directly, such as agriculture, mining,
hunting)
SECONDARY (activities related to
processing / resource)
TERTIARY (activities related to
services)

SUMMARY
ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

1.

2.

Economic geography study the overt

result of economically oriented behavior
as they appear in the landscape
The subdicipline draws on the basic
concepts of two diciplines geography
and economics, but in addition to
spatial and economic factors, physical,
cultural, anad political influensces are
also taken into account.

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3. Put in simple terms, economic geography
in the past have posed five basic
queations concerning the location,
characteristics, relationships, decision
making, and nornative conditions of
economic activities
4. however, in the last thirty years a number
of changes have occured which modify
and/or advance these basic questions

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5. Quantitative techniques have been
developed, for example which can aid
the empirical investigations involved if
they are used judiciously and carefully.
Similary, the use of a nondeterministic
approach (probability) has also widened
considerably yhe techniques available
for describing the overt result of human
decisions.

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6. The used of models-notions or ideas set
in a simple diagrammatic fashionenable us to hand on generalized
information in a compessed form,
provides a simple working picture in
classroom, and the heightens
understanding by allowing a comparison
between the basic abstract features of
the model and real world conditions

continue
7. To supplement the descriptive approach
(idiographic) so long used in geography,
nomothetic approaches have been
utilized. This latter format stresses
generalization, board principles, and
basic conceptualization, rather than the
uniqueness of phenomena

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8. Statistical representation, the search for
law-like principles, description, and the
use of models have been supplemented
by increasing interest in the concept and
notion of neighboring diciplines. One
result of this convergence has been a
concern with behavioral factors and the
process of perception

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9. Finally, the adoption of systems analysis
has aided economoc geography. A
system is simply a set of identified
elements so related that together they
form a complex whole. The use of such
a conception stresses the study of the
whole as well as of the parts. Thus the
world economy can be regarded as a
set interlocking parts and subsystems.

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10. Two of these changes- the behavioral
approach and systems analysis- are
utilized in this book as frameworks for
studying and analysing economic
activities.

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11. Whitin those bound of study, emphases

is placed on man the satisficer, rather than
economic man. Hence, in analyzing the
decision making processes generated by
economic activities, we are dealing with
man bounded by his own inabilities to
perceive all of the environment, learning as
he proceeds, but groping forward in an
uncertain and incomplete invironment.

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12. These frameworks and notions will be
developed in later chapters before they
are applied to the core of economic
geography, the sussystems of
agrculture, manufacturing, tertiary
activities, and transportation ect.

ECONOMIC SECTOR
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Agriculture
Mining
Industry
Trade
Energy and mineral resources
Construction
Banking/Finance
Tourism and hospitality

AGRICULTURE
Agriculture is the cultivation of plants or
animals to obtain the result (fruit, wood,
eggs, etc). sub-sectors:
Food Agriculture,
Horticulture,
Livestock,
Fishery,
Plantation,
Forestry,

Pictures of Food Agriculture

MINING

It is the exploitation of natural resources

in the form of minerals, oil, or gas (to be
given)
Types of mining
The role of mining in the economy
(OPEC countries, industrialized
countries generally supported by mineral
resource wealth)

Mining Activities

INDUSTRY MANUFACTUR

The different types of industry, industry

classifications
The leading types of manufacturing
Role in the construction and
manufacturing industries

11. Classification of industries

based on the Decree of the Minister
of Industry
a. Basic Chemical Industries (IKD
b. Basic Metals Industrial Machinery and
Electronics (IMELDE)
c. Various Industry (AI) (textiles, soap,
ceramics, etc)
d. Small Industries (IK)
e. The tourism industry

Jumlah industri di
Indonesia
Jenis
industri

Jumlah
unit (%)

Tenaga
kerja (%)

Nilai
tambah (%)

Inds besar
dan
menengah

0,8

32,7

82,2

Inds kecil

6,2

14,9

6,8

Inds rumah
tangga

93,0

52,4

11,0

The Automotive Industry

CONSTRUCTION

The definition of contract-construction

industries and the classifications of
production
Levels of efficiency of production
Intra-industry comparisons
Inter-industry relationship
The housing problem and land-use
planning.

Transportation and other public utility industries

Definition of transportation services

Definition of information services
The role of transport and information in
development

Transportation Activities

Commerce sector
1. Classification of commerce industries
a. wholesaling
b. Retailing
c. Finance, Insurance, and real estate
2. Localization of commerce industries
a. intra-industry and inter-industry comparison
b. the central business district
3. International trade
a. the balance of trade of payment
b. geographic distribution as international trade.

BANKING AND FINANCE

Banking and financial services, including of

tertiary activity
The main function of a bank is regulating
the stability of money.
Bank is a financial institution that has the
function of providing intermediary services
and other financial services to its
customers, with the ultimate goal to
maximize the wealth of the owner /
customer.

CENTRAL BANK FUNCTION

(BI)
Duties as the Central Bank of Indonesia, namely:
Organizing the circulation of money in Indonesia
(Bank Circulation)
As a last storage (Lender of last resort)
Setting the Indonesian banking (Bank to Bank)
Setting up credit
To maintain currency stability
Asking printing / additions rupiah, etc.