Analisis Kesesuaian Kawasan Peruntukan Pemakaman Umum Baru Berbasis Sistem Informasi Geografis (Sig) (Studi Kasus : Kecamatan Tembalang, Kota Semarang)

The increasing population and the limitation of public cemeteries in Tembalang caused problems such as lack of cemeteries area. To overcome this problem, it is needed a plan for new cemetery location so that it can be fulfilled for those who need it. As a plan for the location of new public cemeteries, it is required a system of structural informations which consists of aspects such as policy, economic, physical, environmental, social and cultural. This system is known as geographic information system. A plan step for a new cemetery locations is doing by arranging the main criteria, i.e. land use type, physical, economic, and ecological. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) based on spatial analysis was used to calculate weight criterion which the next is used to obtain a map of the suitability of each criterion. By using the ArcGIS 10, it was done the process of overlaying map by each suitability map which was appropriate to criteria so that can be obtained the convenient map for the cemetery locations in Tembalang, Semarang. The results can be acquired influenced by those parameters with landuse, physical, economic, and ecological of 56.99%, 24,63%, 12, 13%, and 6.26%, respectively. By the overlaying process, it also can be obtained the results with the very suitable category area, the corresponding category area, lacked category area, and inappropriate category area of 99,06 Ha, 815.95 Ha, 487,80 Ha, and 1746,18 Ha, respectively