Journal article
Migration, Ethnicity, and the Educational Gradient in the Jakarta Mega-Urban Region: A Spatial Analysis
GW Jones, H Rangkuti, A Utomo, P McDonald
Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Published : 2016
Abstract
The Jakarta mega-urban region (MUR) is one of the largest such regions in the world. In this article, we revisit Castles’s seminal 1967 article, based on the 1961 Population Census of Indonesia, on the educational and ethnic composition of Jakarta. Using data from the full-count 2010 Population Census, we examine spatial patterns in the educational gradients of the population across the Jakarta MUR and look to determine whether these patterns can be explained by internal migration and ethnic composition at the kecamatan (subdistrict) level. We find that population movement from the core to the outer areas has softened the historically extremely sharp gradation in educational attainment acros..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This research was supported by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (LP120200381). We would like to thank the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific's Carto-GIS team for producing the census maps (appendix figures A1-A4). We would also like to thank the anonymous referees for their comments on earlier versions of this article.