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Pekalongan, the focus area of this study, is a provincial town in North Coast of Central Java. It locates in the western part of Semarang, the capital city of Central Java. It takes around 1.5 hours to travel Pekalongan-Semarang. From Jakarta, traveling with train will take times of five hours. Pekalongan is a small city. The total size is 45 km2 or 9 Kilo Meters times 5 Kilo Meters. Travelling with motor cycle, it takes me around 20 minutes to travel from southern to northern part of the city; and it is around 15 minutes from eastern to western part. Traffic lights only locate in the ?centre? of the city, which cover the area of government office and business centers. Demographically speaking, the population is less than 300,000 and it spreads in four sub-districts or Kecamatan, since 1987.
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