Proceedings of the International Conference on Rural Studies in Asia (ICoRSIA 2018)

We are honored to bring you the conference proceedings volume contains the written version of all of the contributions presented on the International Conference on Rural Studies in Asia (ICORSIA) 2018. The international conference was held by the Faculty of Social Sciences Universitas Negeri Semarang on October 10-11, 2018 at Hotel Santika Premiere, Semarang, Indonesia.

This International Conference focussed to five cluster issues: (1) Nationality and Democracy; (2) Portrait of Rural Education; (3) Rural Dynamic on Historical Issues; (4) Social-Cultural Studies in Rural Development; (5) Spatial and Environmental Studies on Rural Areas. We expect that the conference can provide significant contributions both academic and practical to the actual condition in rural development.

This conference has received 95 submitted papers. The submitted papers were selected and reviewed to find qualified papers both in substance and language, and also the ones relevant to the conference scope. The review process resulted the 81 selected papers published in the proceedings of ICORSIA 2018 by Atlantis Press.


We would like to thank all participants and presenters for their contributions to the conference program and the proceedings. We also would like to thank all reviewers, committee members for making this conference successful. We hope that all participants and other interested readers find benefit scientifically from the proceedings.

Chairman of the Conference

Dr. Gunawan, M. Hum