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Indonesia government assessed several regions to move the Indonesian capital. one of them is in East Kalimantan. This research focuses on deforestation in East Kalimantan from 2001 to 2018. It aims to analyze and to learn as much as possible from the data set of East Kalimantan as new Indonesian capital about the trade-offs between economic and social growth, and also environmental degradation. It uses spatial information and as tools to describe and analyze environmental degradation. It examines data Landsat Imagery between 2015 and 2018 for calculating the deforestation area in East Kalimantan. Moreover, addressing deforestation this research analyzes the impact of tree loss that used for agriculture, mining, housing, infrastructure and other land use. This research concludes that deforestation in East Kalimantan affect the economic and social growth. In some areas that deforestation rates are relatively high, it’s have also contribute significant rates economic and social growth.

Deforestation; Spatial Information; Landuse; East Kalimantan.