Abstract:
Banjarbaru City is one of the cities in South Kalimantan
Province which is developing quite rapidly from year to
year. Hence, it is necessary to research and study changes
in land use and their suitability with the city development
plan. The purpose of this study is to examine changes in
the area and types of land use changes in Banjarbaru City
within a period of 8 years, from 2013 to 2021, determine
the rate of land use change, and assess the suitability of
land use changes to the applicable Banjarbaru City spatial
plan. This research method is an overlay to see changes in
land use and the suitability of changes in land use with the
direction of spatial functions in the Regional Spatial Plan.
The result of this research is that in an area of 16,414.00
ha (53.7%) there is a change in land use in Banjarbaru City
in the period 2013-2021. The biggest land use changes are
dry land agriculture, vacant land, wetland agriculture,
housing, and villages. The use of dry land and agricultural
land has the largest decrease in area, which is 15,090.71
ha or a decrease of 365.5%. The use of vacant land
increased in an area of 14,715.684 hectares or an increase
of almost 4 times. Wetland agriculture has decreased in
an area which is reduced by 986.55 ha or decreased by
65.8%. The use of land for housing/residential in the form
of housing or villages has also undergone considerable changes. The use of residential land has increased by
528.105 hectares (44.626%) and the village area to 444.32
ha (21.2%). The suitability of land use with the RTRW in
Banjarbaru City is 16,742.86 ha (54.8%) categorized as
appropriate, while an area of 13,779.69 ha (45.2%) is
categorized as not in accordance with the applicable
RTRW.