Discovering Public Preferences for School Location in Surabaya

Publics school in Surabaya became the major choice for Surabaya citizen in schooling their children. Their zero tuition fee, good quality, and good facilities are the strong attraction. However, the school's location is not well spread in whole city location, especially the secondary level and high level schools. Some analysis to improve this spread has been conducted and good new school location has been noted. Nevertheless, whether this new school location is accepted by the public, moreover, the good school spread is important or not for the public have not been discovered. This research uses Public Participatory GIS concept to discover public preferences in choosing school location. Using web base application at http://participatorygis.net, an online survey has been run about a year. By analyzing the collected data with some programming and spatial analysis tools, it can be seen the preferences level of a whole area in the city. This preferences level area will explain the public acceptance of current condition or the proposed new school location.