Te Impact of Urban Sprawl on the Socioeconomic Conditions of the Population in Tamanan Village, Indonesia Sri Rum Giyarsih Faculty of Geography, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia ISSN 2354-9114 (online), ISSN 0024-9521 (print) Indonesian Journal of Geography Vol 55, No 1 (2023): 137-147 DOI: 10.22146/ijg 74137 website: htps://jurnal.ugm.ac.id/ijg ©2023 Faculty of Geography UGM and Te Indonesian Geographers Associaton Submit : 2022-04-16 Received: 2022-04-21 Accepted: 2023-01-10 Key words: Urban sprawl; social condition; economic condition; technological condition; outskirt. Correspondent email: srirum@ugm.ac.id Abstract. Tis study aimed to analyse the impact of urban sprawl on the (1) social, (2) economic, and (3) technological conditions of the population in Tamanan Village, on the outskirts of Yogyakarta City. For data collection, this survey research employed structured interviews with 40 respondents selected through multistage random sampling. It also used complementary in-depth interviews with seven (7) purposively sampled key informants to deepen the analysis. Te answers from the structured interviews were analysed with descriptive statistics in the form of single-frequency tables, while the data derived from the in-depth interviews were processed using a qualitative descriptive approach. Te results show that the impact of urban sprawl on the social (37.5%) and economic conditions (40%) was mostly high, while the efect on the technological conditions of the population in the study area fell mainly under the medium category (47.5%). In conclusion, the phenomenon of urban sprawl in the study area has afected the social, economic, and technological conditions of the population. ©2023 by the authors. Licensee Indonesian Journal of Geography, Indonesia. Tis article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution(CC BY NC) licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. 1. Introduction Tis research was motivated by the recent emphasis accorded in the regional development discourse to the increasing phenomenon of intensive urban sprawl (Brian, 2016; Dadi et al., 2016; Giyarsih & Harini, 2020a; Giyarsih & Marfai, 2017; Queslati, Alvanides, & Garrod, 2015; Skog & Stelnnes, 2016; Sriartha & Giyarsih, 2017). Tis study defnes urban sprawl as the process of propagation of the appearance of urban physical characteristics from the inner city towards the urban fringe area. Symptoms of urban sprawl can develop due to the availability of open space; this is an increasingly rare commodity in the inner city, meaning that residents and various urban functions spill over into urban fringe areas. On the one hand, urban sprawl is understood as a process towards the advancement of civilisation (Debbage, Bercitschaf, & Shepherd, 2016; Guo, Xiao, & Yuan, 2017; Hatam, Rijanta, Yunus, & Giyarsih, 2016; Lincaru, Atanasiu, Ciuca, & Pirciog, 2016), while on the other hand, it is a concern for various parties, particularly due to its diverse negative impacts (Buxton, Carey, & Phelan, 2016; Dupras, Marull, Pancerisas, Coll, & Gonzalez, 2016; Ewing, Hamidi, Grace, & Wei, 2017; Giyarsih, 2017; Wang, Liu, Li, & Li, 2016; Weilermann, Seidl, & Schulz, 2017). Examples of the negative impacts of urban sprawl include the massive conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural land resulting in an impact on the food security system, security disturbances, social conficts, land degradation, and the reduced serviceability of socioeconomic facilities (Kovacs et al., 2019; Lu, Li, & Xu, 2023). Te outskirts of Yogyakarta City include Tamanan Village, Banguntapan District, Bantul Regency. As seen in the outskirts of other Indonesian cities, the area has experienced the symptoms of urban sprawl (Amri & Giyarsih, 2022; Giyarsih, 2014; Giyarsih & Harini, 2020b; Giyarsih & Marfai, 2018). In the Yogyakarta City outskirts, such symptoms have begun to appear in specifc spatial patterns and processes. People living in the outskirts, as well as in Tamanan Village, are then inevitably impacted by the social, economic, and technological impacts of urban sprawl. It is against this background that the study analysed the impact of the symptoms of urban sprawl on the social, economic, and technological conditions of the population. Tis research ofers two benefts, namely theoretical academic and practical empirical benefts. Regarding the theoretical academic benefts, the study is believed to contribute signifcantly to the development of Urban Geography. From a practical empirical perspective, it makes a signifcant contribution as an input for the formulation of development policies in the outskirts. Te input referred to here concerns the formulation of appropriate development policies to reduce the various negative impacts that are currently, will, and are expected to occur in suburban areas that experience urban sprawl symptoms. To the author’s knowledge, no prior study has specifcally documented the impact of the symptoms of urban sprawl on the social, economic, and technological conditions of the population in the study area. Te originality of this research therefore lies in this assertion. Indonesian Journal of Geography, Vol 54, No. 3 (2022) 463-470 RESEARCH ARTICLE