Community suitability of Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia
Marginally suitable confidence B · live score 56
75
best land · p90
73%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Governance, safety & tenure 49
Society, freedom & health 100
Land & water 57
Climate, growing & hazards 79
Autonomy & access 25
Where it pushes back
AccessibilityWater availability & qualityGovernance & corruption
Within Sulawesi Utara — 9 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Minahasa Selatan
strongest Society, freedom & health (100) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (49)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 70
Minahasa
strongest Society, freedom & health (100) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (49)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 66
Minahasa Utara
strongest Society, freedom & health (100) ·
weakest Land & water (35)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 65
Kota Tomohon
strongest Society, freedom & health (100) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (49)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 64
Kota Bitung
strongest Society, freedom & health (100) ·
weakest Land & water (29)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 62
Bolaangmongondow
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 59
Kepulauan-sangihe
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Currently not suitable 23
excluded excl
excluded excl
Reading the land, criterion by criterion
Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.
Education & schooling freedomcountry B HSLDA + UNESCO UIS
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
Governance & corruptioncountry A World Bank WGI + Transparency CPI
Disease / vector burden A Malaria Atlas + dengue Index P
Soil quality A SoilGrids (ISRIC)
Water availability & quality A WRI Aqueduct + AQUASTAT
Terrain & buildability A SRTM / NASADEM
Land cover & degradation A ESA WorldCover + Global Forest Watch
Biodiversity & alignment B Biodiversity Intactness Index
Climate & natural hazards A ThinkHazard + NASA FIRMS + USGS
Growing conditions A CHELSA / FAO GAEZ
Food & forage diversity B FAO GAEZ crop suitability + GLW
Coastal risk B Climate Central CoastalDEM
Energy potential A Global Solar Atlas + Global Wind Atlas
Natural building materials B SoilGrids clay + forest + geology
Environmental quality A SEDAC PM2.5 + VIIRS night-lights
Connectivity A Ookla + ITU (+ Starlink)
Accessibility A Malaria Atlas friction surface
Remoteness / surroundings A GPWv4 population density
Contamination legacy C Maus mining polygons + WRI power plants
Phase-1 desk screening
These are desk numbers from open data. Soil tests, water rights and the welcome of actual neighbours all wait for a visit — we'd rather say so than pretend.
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