Indonesia, a country with the fourth-largest population in the world, requires carefully considered decision-making processes. Integrating GIS with various methodologies offers a promising approach to enhancing location-based decision-making processes. The literature review in this article focuses on location-based decision-making in Indonesia from year 2017 to 2024. This study aims to explore the implementation of location-based decision-making in Indonesia by identifying the methods that are often used and providing a comparison between advantages, limitations, and challenges across these diverse sectors. Based on the results, GIS is often used in Disaster Response, Infrastructure, Agro-Fishery, Economy, Power Plants, and Intelligent Systems. GIS and AHP are the most often used methods as they offer a robust framework for location-based decision-making. These methods integrate complex spatial data, identify priority areas, and provide tools for simulating and evaluating the geographic impacts of decisions. © 2026, Prince of Songkla University. All rights reserved.