Efforts to Alleviate Underdeveloped Areas by Clustering Regional Characteristics in Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims to cluster the underdeveloped regions in Indonesia according to the criteria of the underdeveloped indicator to mitigate the underdeveloped regions in Indonesia. This research was conducted to help the various efforts made by the government to deal with the underdeveloped regions, by grouping the underdeveloped regions, it is hoped that the government can focus on increasing the dominant criteria in the regions according to the cluster. The grouping method used is K-means with the results of 62 underdeveloped districts in Indonesia divided into 3 clusters. The first cluster includes 23 districts grouped based on human resource criteria, the second cluster consists of 28 districts based on infrastructure/facilities criteria, and the third cluster consists of 11 districts based on economics criteria.