Community Perception on Preparation of Brebes District's Expansion
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MIMBAR, Vol.34 No 1st (June) 2018 pp. 224-236 Community Perception on Preparation of Brebes District’s Expansion 1 2 3 EPPY YULIANI, ARDIANA YULI PUSPITASARI, SHABRINA AYU ARDINI 123 Program Studi Perencanaan Wilayah dan Kota, Universitas Islam Sultan Agung Semarang, Jl. Raya Kaligawe km 4 Semarang email: [email protected]; 2 [email protected]; 3 [email protected] Abstract. Brebes Regency is the largest area in Central Java Province with the southern region distance where central government situated to northern region of ± 55 Km. Such condition affects public services. It reinforces the emergence of territorial expansion issue in Brebes Regency, particularly in region of South Brebes. The territorial expansion that may apply to Brebes Regency, based on Government Regulation No. 78 year of 2007, is a formation since the objective to be achieved is granting a new status to South Brebes region as a regency. The purpose of this study is to analyze the perception of community towards the preparation of regional expansion in Brebes Regency. This research uses a rationalistic quantitative descriptive approach method with four variables to measure public perception, namely attention, experience, mindset, and expectation. The conclusion of the research on the attention factor, mindset, and needs of community perception is very good. The territorial expansion is expected to improve public services and welfare. While the perception of experience factor is less good, due to lack of socialization. Keywords: Expansion, perception, community. Introduction as a regency. The latest research related to the feasibility of the expansion of Brebes Territorial expansion is carried out Regency was conducted by Brebes District to achieve the optimization of government Government in 2015. The results obtained implementation and facilitate public service in from the research were “requirements of new autonomous regions. One of the benefits expansion”, focusing on scoring each indicator of regional expansion is the formation of of expansion. Nevertheless, the research new autonomous region that is expected to conducted by Brebes District Government increase the efficiency and effectiveness of was only used 2 out of 3 requirements local governments in providing public services of expansion stipulated in Government to the community, which ultimately would Regulation Number 78 Year 2007 regarding prosper the community in the expansion area. Procedures for Formation, Elimination and Brebes Regency is the largest regency in Regional Merger. Whereas there are 3 basic Central Java after Cilacap. It has a landscape requirements for the establishment of a of hills and beaches, as well as two different New Autonomous Region, namely technical, cultures, namely Java and Sunda. Brebes physical, and administrative requirements. district is a developing district whose location The feasibility and success of the is surrounded by large urban areas such as expansion of the region is not only about Cirebon, Tegal, Purwokerto. Such condition the technical and physical aspects of the reinforces the emergence of territorial territory, but also take into consideration expansion issue in Brebes Regency, precisely the opinions or aspirations of the affected in region of South Brebes. The territorial people as the goal of expansion. Therefore, expansion that may apply to Brebes Regency, community aspirations need to be explored based on Government Regulation No. 78 year through the analysis of public perceptions on of 2007, is a formation of New Autonomous the feasibility of Brebes Regency expansion. Region since the objective to be achieved is Most of the time, planning process occurred granting a new status to South Brebes region in Brebes Regency was only involved the Received: December 07, 2017, Revision: March 27, 2018, Accepted: June 09, 2018 Print ISSN: 0215-8175; Online ISSN: 2303-2499. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29313/mimbar.v34i1.3264.224-236 Accredited B based on the decree No.040/P/2014, valid on February, 18, 2014 until February, 18, 2019. Indexed by DOAJ, Sinta, IPI 224 224 ISSN 0215-8175 | EISSN 2303-2499 EPPY YULIANI, et al. Community Perception on Preparation of Brebes District's Expansion. community as a listener in the socialization of the message. Richard S. Crutchfield activities of territorial expansion. Based on describes related factors that can influence the theory of Arnstein, peoples participation in a person’s perception in the environment South Brebes is only at level 2, namely level or society (Supratman and Adi, 2016: 72). of therapy. Local Government should more First, functional factors, derived from the involve the community in planning, so that the needs, experience, motivation, the process of plan of Brebes Regency expansion can be in formation of impression, and personality or accordance to society requirement, which also individual characteristics. Second, structural improving the prosperity and public service in factors, derived from the nature of the New Autonomous Region (NAR). physical stimulus and the nerves inflicted by the individual. While the important factors The problem occurred today is that that affect perceptions according to Kenneth the southern Brebes region has a distance of is attention. Attention is very influential on +55 km to the central government of Brebes the emergence of perception in a person Regency, so that people have difficulties in (Rakhmat, 1990: 52). Whether a person obtaining public services. Consequently, the is interested in an object or a stimulus is community proposed the expansion of the influenced by 2 factors, namely internal region into South Brebes Regency. factors derived from the habits, interests, The purpose of this study is to analyze emotions, and biological state of a person the perception of the community towards the upon receiving the stimulus; and external readiness of regional expansion in Brebes factors derived from the intensity, movement, Regency. Targets prepared to achieve the and repetition of the stimulus. In addition to objectives are: (a) Identification of the South the above factors, Krech and Crutchfield (in Brebes region; (b) Identification of population Rakhmat, 1990: 56) explain the formation of of South Brebes region; (c) To analyze the a person’s perceptions influenced by several readiness of Brebes Regency expansion plan. factors, namely: attention as the focus (d) To analyze people’s perception on the of individual towards the object; mindset readiness of the expansion of Brebes regency. defines as an individual mindset in receiving stimulus; need comes from the impulse in a Regional development is carried out in person related to the object, such as desire, accordance with the principles of autonomy demands, ideals, and so forth; the value and decentralization. Local governments have system as a system of social values and full authority to develop regional economic norms that applied; and personality s an management institutions, their human individual characteristic, such as educational resources, a business climate that can attract background, religion, age, gender, culture, capital and investment, and the active role and social stratification in society. of the private sector and community through ongoing coordination with all development Territorial expansion is an effort stakeholders both at regional and central to establish a new autonomous region levels. Local Government acts as facilitator through 3 forms, namely split-off, enlarging, and catalyst for the growing interest of and amalgamation (Sjafrizal, 2008: 266). investment in the region (Yana Tatiana, et al Separation is an attempt of regional expansion MIMBAR, Vol. 31, No. 2 (December, 2015): from old administrative area into a new one. 295-306). Expansion usually occurs in urban areas whose development has expanded into Perception is an attempt to recognize rural areas, thus affecting the structure of objects or information through the process of space and its economy. While unification is observing, understanding, or interpreting the a merger of two or more old administrative stimuli received by the senses (Maramis, 1999 areas into a new administrative region within in Sunaryo, 2004: 94). Another definition of a single governance system. Each form of perception is the experience of an object, regional arrangement has different objectives, event, or relationships obtained through considerations, and impacts on the relevant a sensory stimulus (Rakhmat 1990: 51). regional development process. Expansion of The perception formed is done by deducing the region by Nainggolan (in Silitonga, 2000: information and interpreting the message. 90) is the process of expansion and merging Desiderato (in Supratman and Adi, 2016: of the region in an effort to strengthen the 45) has similar definition on perception, relationship between the community and i.e an experience of objects or stimuli by the new autonomous regional government. a person through sensing, then summed An expansion would create more effective up into an information and interpretation Accredited Sinta 2 based on the decree No.040/P/2014, valid on February, 18, 2014 until February, 18, 2019 225 MIMBAR, Vol.34 No 1st (June) 2018 pp. 224-236 interaction because local government can Methodology find out the aspirations and needs of the The approach used in this research is community, so that public services can be rationalistic quantitative descriptive method. done optimally and lead to the improvement Descriptive research is a research for