The province of South Sulawesi has natural resources (NR) in some sectors are; agriculture, plantation, livestock, and industry. Each region has a sector basis and non bases in the economy so that the role of transport for the distribution of desperately needed. South Sulawesi province has many islands, so the shipping transport citizenry play a role in improving the economy as a means to support community activities and reducing the isolation of the islands. The research is descriptive quantitative, to analyze the benefits of cruise people in the economy of the islands and calculations using formula of Regional Specialization Index (IRS) and the Location Quotient (LQ). The results of this study showed the city of Makassar has a base sectors that have comparative advantages (a value LQ> 1) in the sectors of manufacturing, electricity, gas, water, building, trade, hotels, restaurants, transport, communication, finance, real estate and business services. Whereas the non base that has a value LQ <1 i.e., agriculture, mining, quarrying, and offices. While in Selayar Regency is the sector non base that has a value LQ <1 i.e., electricity, gas, water supply, trade, hotels & restaurants, industrial processing and finance, real estate and offices. By him that the Shipping Citizenry in South Sulawesi is still very necessary to distribute the demand for electricity, gas, water and the processing industry in Selayar Regency Islands of Makassar which become the flagship in the sector, but it also plays an important role in connecting and meeting the needs of the communities in the islands that easily reached by the commercial shipping. The Shipping Citizinry is called "PELRA" development need goods preparation in the marine transportation infrastructure in the province of South Sulawesi as expected unloading using cruise folk to increase until 2030.
Author Keywords:-
Citizenry services, ports, and economic sectors
e-ISSN: 2319-183X, p-ISSN: 2319-1821 Source Type: Journal
Original Language: English
Document Type: Article
Number of pages: 09
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