planned due to an underestimation of the time needed for
cartographic processing.
The net result of these contracts has been to produce 566 new
map sheets and create a pool of better experienced managers,
Supervisors and technicians in topographic mapping. The pro-
ject was a useful learning expeience for Bakosurtanal, the
contractors and TAT alike.
P. Suharto, J. A. Bureau J.E. Drummond LREP-II - A
Land Resource Evaluation and Planning Project in Indonesia
In a dynamic country, such as Indonesia, unplanned or poorly
planned development can lead to economic and environmental
Problems. The primary aim of the Second Land Resource
Evaluation and Planning project is to augment the capabilities
of Indonesia's Physical Planners in eighteen of its provinces,
and to avoid such problems. This is to be done through
augmenting these Physical Planners spatial data analysis, deci-
sion making and spatial Information presentation skills.
This article will first describe the role of Physical Planners in
Indonesia and the nature of Physical Planning, and will then
address the means, within LREP-II, to be adopted for
augmenting the Physical Planning capabilities of the provin-
cial planning Offices.
T.R. Tichelaar
in Indonesia
BHINNEKA TUNGGAL IKA: Toponymy
Both the Netherlands Indies' topographic mapping authorities
and their Indonesian successors have paid due attention to the
Problem of defining Standards for the recording and carto
graphic representation of geographica! names. In the case of
Indonesia, this general problem is uniquely complicated by
specific historical, socio-political and linguistic circumstances.
A UN-sponsored Workshop hosted by Bakosurtanal in 1989
rallied the major linguistic and topographic agencies as well as
a number of prime users of geographicaI names to commence
a dialogue on standardization principles. Official standardiza-
tion can be realized since on 11 March 1993 Minister Rudini of
Internal Affairs by ministerial decision inaugurated a Per
manent National Committee on Toponymy. Five of the
thirteen members of this Permanent Committee did parti-
cipate in the 1989 Workshop.
The main prerequisite to come to just, hence authoritative
Standards is a sufficient degree of lexical and geolinguistic
knowledge of the many hundreds of different tongues spoken
in the archipelago. In order to assure access to the ever expand-
ing body of linguistic knowledge, it is recommended that the
topographic recording of names be jointly supervised by Bako
surtanal and the Indonesian Language Center.
T. Lukman Aziz - Cartographic education and training at the
Department of Geodetic Engineering of the Technical Univer-
sity Bandung (Indonesia)
The Department of Geodetic Engineering oj the Technical
University Bandung has provided for cartographic education
since its establishment in 1950. Up to 1975 the education was
limited, amongst other things, by a shortage of teaching ma-
terials. In 1975 with the help of Dutch development aid, the
SchooI for Photogrammetric and Cartographic Operators
(PPFK) was established. From then on cartographers at the
middle level (technicians) were trained at PPFK and moreover
students of the Department of Geodetic Engineering could
make use of the cartographic facilities for their cartographic
education. The article describes the development of the im-
provement in cartographic education and the capabilities of
PPFK to contribute to the needs of draughtsmen and carto
graphers for the manifold mapping projects in Indonesia.
A. Brown R.P.G.A. Voskuil - The Dutch contribution to
the cartographic education at the Gadjah Mada University in
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
The Geography Faculty of the large state-run Gadjah Mada
University (UGM) is the largest in Indonesia, with 62 academic
staff members in 1984. The authors describe the Dutch assist-
ance to the Geography Faculty and in particular the Cartog-
raphy Department of that Faculty during two Dutch-financed
projects in the period 1973 to 1984. Both authors took an
active part in these projects, being stationed in Yogyakarta for
2 years (Voskuil) during the Serayu Valley Project and for 3
years (Brown) during the follow-up, the Earth Sciences Pro
ject. During the Serayu Valley Project, it became apparent
that the then small Cartography Department required
strengthening if it were to play a proper part in Publishing the
research results of the Faculty and also in the running of
courses in cartography, to supply the Indonesian requirement
for highly qualified cartographers. During the later stages of
the project a cartography production unit was set up and the
technical staff were trained. During the Earth Sciences Project
the production unit was extended, three of the eight academic
staff of the Department followed courses at ITC, Enschede,
and the course curricula were further developed. By 1984, the
Cartography Department, together with the Remote Sensing
Department, were able to supply one of the eight specialisa-
tions which could be taken by students during the second
phase of their studies in Geography.
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