Geoclogs: The Potential of a Special Economic Zone in Halmahera Utara Regency

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10.2991/assehr.k.201014.043How to use a DOI?

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geo cluster, geologistic, geostrategy

Abstract

This study aims to review the economic potentials of Halmahera Utara Regency with Geo cluster, geologistic, and geostrategy variable approach, these three variables named geoclogs are still minimal terms discussed in previous studies. Geoclogs defined as a geographical or geographic approach by emphasizing the relationship between economic and financial investigations. Geocluster’s potential analysis shows that Halmahera Utara Regency has a very creative community. Handicraft mat pandan from Halmahera Utara is very famous until exported out of the country. Almost all people in Halmahera Utara have a mat making skill. This skill is inherited gradually from generations. This product is usually used in traditional wedding ceremonies in Halmahera Utara. Geologistic potentials, Halmahera Utara, will be very fast forward if transport there repaired. Not only ground transportation but air transport and sea transportation. Halmahera Utara has a very extraordinary natural beauty, and if the access to transportation to go to the place is smooth, more and more tourists, both local and international, so encapsulate become one of the factors for the economic growth of Halmahera Utara Regency. Potential Geostrategy, this district is a remote or distant region, both from the capital city and provincial capital, Sofifi. However, its position has a high bargaining value because it is on the Pacific Rim, dealing directly with countries in the Pacific recesses, let alone ASEAN countries. That is, Halmahera Utara has a value of geostrategic worth reckoned, in addition to the abundant natural resources.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Magdalena Wullur
AU  - Joyce C Kumaat
AU  - Apeles L Lonto
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/15
TI  - Geoclogs: The Potential of a Special Economic Zone in Halmahera Utara Regency
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 194
EP  - 199
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201014.043
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201014.043
ID  - Wullur2020
ER  -