Abstract
In order to avoid further detrimental impact on development, and to achieve agricultural sustainability, a method of land use adjustment is introduced. Land use adjustment is defined as an activity to determine, based on certain rules for the priority of land use, whether a parcel of land is suitable for a certain utilization. The objective of this study is limited to the adjustment of land suitable for both paddy and settlement and the determination of which of them in a case study area in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Artificial ranks for land suitability, which is estimated by quantification-2, are employed for the adjustment. The result of analysis shows that this method contributed to land use planning in the identification of land to be adjusted for: (a) paddy fields (and which has been so cultivated), (b) settlements (and which has been so occupied), (c) paddy fields (but which has not been so cultivated), and (d) settlements (but which has not been so occupied). The areas to be conserved, the settlement areas which had grown in an unexpected place, and the land recommended for settlement growth could also be spatially mapped.
