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Uncontrolled urban expansion resulting from urbanization has a disastrous impact on agricultural land. This situation is being experienced by the densely populated and fertile island Java in Indonesia. Remote sensing technologies have developed rapidly in recent years, including the creation of Google Earth Engine (GEE). Intensity analysis (IA) is increasingly being used to systematically and substantially analyze land-use/land-cover (LULC) change. As yet, however, no study of land conversion from agriculture to urban areas in Indonesia has adopted GEE and IA approaches simultaneously. Therefore, this study aims to monitor urban penetration to agricultural land in the north coastal region of West Java Province by applying both methods to two time intervals: 2003–2013 and 2013–2020. Landsat data and a robust random forest (RF) classifier available in GEE were chosen for producing LULC maps. Monitoring LULC change using GEE and IA has demonstrated reliable findings. The overall accuracy of Landsat image classification results for 2003, 2013, and 2020 were 88%, 87%, and 88%, respectively. IA outputs at interval levels for all categories showed that the annual change-of-area rate was higher during 2013–2020 than during 2003–2013. At the category level, IA results showed that the area of agricultural land experienced net losses in both periods, with net loss in 2013–2020 being 2.3 times greater than that in 2003–2013 (∼1,850 ha per year). In contrast, the built-up area made net gains in both periods, reaching almost twice as much in the second period as in the first (∼2,030 ha per year). The transition-level IA performed proved that agricultural land had been the primary target for the expansion of built-up areas. The most extensive spatial distribution of land conversion from agriculture to built-up area was concentrated in the regencies of Bekasi, Karawang, and Cirebon. These findings are intended to provide stakeholders with enrichment in terms of available literature and with valuable inputs useful for identifying better urban and regional planning policies in Indonesia and similar regions.

Pemerintah Indonesia telah mengeluarkan Inpres No.7/2016 yang ditujukan untuk percepatan pembangunan sektor perikanan. Natuna merupakan salah satu lokasi yang ditetapkan sebagai Sentra Kelautan Perikanan Terpadu (SKPT). Tujuan penelitian adalah menyusun strategi bagi percepatan fungsionalisasi SKPT Natuna. Kajian diawali melalui analisis situasi terhadap keberadaaan SKPT Natuna untuk dapat mengidentifikasi peluang dan tantangan, dilanjutkan dengan memberikan rekomendasi langkah-langkah strategis bagi percepatan fungsionalisasi SKPT Natuna. Hasil penelitian dapat diidentifikasi peluang dan permasalahan untuk percepatan fungsionalisi SKPT Natuna, yaitu potensi sumberdaya ikan pelagis dan demersal memiliki peluang besar untuk dimanfaatkan dan adanya peluang ekspor produk segar untuk ikan demersal. Permasalahan yang dihadapi diantaranya yaitu, usaha penangkapan ikan merupakan usaha skala kecil dengan pengetahuan dan keterampilan nelayan rendah, tempat pendaratan ikan tersebar di beberapa lokasi, terbatasnya ketersediaan es untuk melaut, usaha pengolahan ikan masih skala rumah tangga dan terbatas pada olahan tradisional, terbatasnya kapasitas tenaga kerja, mahalnya biaya pengemasan, dan terbatasnya aksesibilitas untuk pemasaran. Langkah-langkah strategis yang dapat dilakukan yaitu optimalisasi pemanfaatan sumberdaya ikan pelagis dan demersal melalui peningkatan keterampilan nelayan, peningkatan armada penangkapan yang dikendalikan dengan perizinan dan pendataan, serta perlunya perencanaan secara terintegrasi pengembangan industri penangkapan, pengolahan dan pemasaran. Kata kunci: fungsionalisasi SKPT, Natuna, peluang, permasalahan, strategi