Bibliometric Analysis of Socio-Political Research on Capital Relocation: Examining Contributions to the Case of Indonesia

Abstract

The idea of ​​building a new capital city is a recent issue that has been widely discussed in Indonesia. To help observe the urgency of these ideas, research results are needed by analyzing several published documents available globally. This helps study the evolution of the discourse of moving the new capital city through research results. This study aims to fill the gap in previous research on moving the State Capital with a bibliometric analysis approach. The bibliometric analysis research method maximizes the analytical tool, namely Vosviewer. This approach explores relocating the National Capital by reviewing publications and research globally, especially in the socio-political field indexed in the Scopus database. This study found 176 most relevant publication documents and was considered influential on other published documents. In line with the discourse on relocating the Indonesian capital, this study finds that the tendency of Indonesian researchers to distribute publication documents is very minimal globally, but the results of this study view that the study of the relocation of the National Capital has the potential to be extensively researched in the future, especially in the socio-political field. Some topics are relevant to be studied, including urbanization, regional development, economic development, political geography, government relocation, modernization, identity construction, state-building, climate change, and others. The contribution of this research becomes a reference for further researchers in determining the position of contributions to the development of more relevant research in the future.

Bibliometric Analysis of Public Policy Research in Indonesia 2011-2021

“…Bibliometrics helps provide datasets that policymakers, academics, and other stakeholders may utilize to enhance the quality of research (Hamidah, Sriyono, & Hudha, 2020). The bibliometric method is also a comprehensive and reliable way of studying and evaluating scientific publications to comprehend the growth of a specific topic (Baharuddin, Nurmandi, Qodir, Jubba, & Syamsurrijal, 2022;Nafi'ah et al, 2021). All data used in this study were taken from the Scopus database on June 16, 2022.…”

Smart City Development in the New Capital City: Indonesian Government Plans

“…People also think that budgets will have an effect on how smart cities develop in the future, especially when moving new capital, which costs a lot of money. The budget capacity is projected to fulfil infrastructure, technology, human resources, and others (Baharuddin et al, 2022). In general, the development of smart cities also considers costs and budget allocations from the government or investment returns from many supporting parties (Voda & Radu, 2019;Tan & Taeihagh, 2020).…”

“…The Indonesian government is considering building a new capital city because of environmental problems, the number of people living in cities, the risk of natural disasters, and the idea of sustainable development (Shimamura & Mizunoya, 2020;Baharuddin, Nurmandi, Qodir, & Jubba, 2022;Ramadhan et al, 2022). In addition, the development idea is also based on the national development equity plan and the development of a smart city system (Baharuddin et al, 2022). Researchers all over the world are interested in the development of smart cities (Mora, Bolici, and Deakin, 2017;van Twist, Ruijer, and Meijer, 2023).…”

“…The government has made severe projections for this idea to be built in the new capital city (Rachmawati, Haryono, & Rohmah, 2021). The new capital city is currently planned to be moved from Jakarta and built in the Kalimantan region (Baharuddin et al, 2022;Teo, Lechner, Sagala, & Campos-Arceiz, 2020). Kalimantan was chosen with the consideration that the population is not significant and the land is also available (Shimamura & Mizunoya, 2020;Baharuddin et al, 2022).…”

“…The new capital city is currently planned to be moved from Jakarta and built in the Kalimantan region (Baharuddin et al, 2022;Teo, Lechner, Sagala, & Campos-Arceiz, 2020). Kalimantan was chosen with the consideration that the population is not significant and the land is also available (Shimamura & Mizunoya, 2020;Baharuddin et al, 2022). The characteristics of this development idea lie in the infrastructure that is different from other regions in Indonesia (Muzady & Berawi, 2022;Spencer et al, 2023).…”