Concept of Regional Development in Development Planning

The concept of developing the area was developed from the needs of an area to improve the function and its role in managing the social, economic, cultural, education and welfare of the community. The influence of globalization, free markets and regionalization leads to changes and spatial dynamics, social, and economic inter-state, inter-regional (district), to rural districts.

Globalization is also marked by the revolution in information technology, transportation and management. The revolution has caused the boundary between urban and rural areas is unclear, the polarization of regional development, the formation of world cities (global cities), city system on an international scale, the formation of inter-state development area (transborder regions), as well as the formation of regional development corridors both local scale , national, regional and international.

In the Asia globalization has created a very significant development polarization in the form megaurban region that occurred in metropolitan cities along the east coast of Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung Up . In the scale of convergence between countries occurred in the Bohai (China - Korea), Hong Kong-Guangzhou, and Sijori (Singapore-Johor-Riau). In Indonesia polarization centered along Sumetera (Medan, Palembang), and Java (Jakarta-Bandung-Semarang-Surabaya).

Mega-urban corridor is very influential on economic growth, especially the area surrounding district and surrounding villages that have economic relations and the market is quite strong.

But change is not matched by the provision of facilities and infrastructure are inadequate due to limited areas of government. Therefore, private parties and other institutions to participate in development.

Various impacts on the causes of economic globalization on local development simply as follows:

1. Changing the orientation of development which must be based on improving individual, group and community empowerment in the face of global competition, thus enabling people to survive (survive), to develop themselves and improve welfare.

2. Increasingly important role of non-governmental institutions such as, the private sector, communities, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in implementation of development and financing

3. The increase in urbanization in the suburbs than in the big city itself. This is in line with the concept developed by Mc. Gee in the 1980s. Boundary between urban and rural areas become less clear due to economic growth, where urban activities have been mingled with the intensity of the movement of rural areas with investment, economic and population increases.

On the basis of the description above, the development of the region is an important part of the development of a region, especially in rural areas are extremely vulnerable and facing severe global-scale changes. This change, if not supported by a good regional planning taking into account the internal aspects, social and economic growth will result in progressively increasing the villages left behind.

Paradigm shift needs to be done in restructuring the areas categorized poor and weak to be able to improve competitiveness, production management and locally based appropriate technology that can affect other areas of reciprocity. In simple terms the concept of regional development needs to be done in rural planning to encourage local economic growth and strengthen communities in the bottom layer can affect the market for a sustainable manner.