International Journal of Marine Science 2016, Vol.6, No.6, 1-10
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Research Article Open Access
Co-management: Valuating Social Communication of Sustainable Coastal
Tourism, in Indonesia
Hengky S. Halim
Triguna, School of Economics, Director of SHINE Institute, Indonesia
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International Journal of Marine Science
2016, Vol.6, No.46 doi
Received: 12 Sep., 2016
Accepted: 10 Nov., 2016
Published: 15 Nov., 2016
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Halim H.S., 2016, Co-management: Valuating Social Communication of Sustainable Coastal Tourism, in Indonesia, International Journal of Marine Science,
6(46): 1-10 (doi
Abstract
The aim of this study is to respond to the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy of Indonesia on a “Wonderful
Indonesia Program. Based on Co-management program, this study is going to valuate social communication of sustainable
coastal-tourism in Karawang regency, Indonesia by qualitative and quantitative research, and it’s tabulated by content analysis. The
outcomes of this one-year study found that there are two domains would be strengthening: government and local community sides.
Firstly, the government gets to strengthen training and interactive learning’s program as well as counseling about the ability of
sustaining coastal-tourism and their benefit. Finally, the local government gets to be more care on conserving the environmental
along the coastline as well as aligning their policy, especially on maintaining the highway. Both efforts would raise local
community’s awareness.
Keywords
Social Communication; Training; Interactive Learning; Raising Awareness; Indonesia
Introduction
The tourism industry in Indonesia has increased considerably that supported by the economic and political
stability, being one tourist destination for both domestic and foreign tourists. Established on the rest of the
National-Tourism Statistics, the development of tourists and the archipelago occurred meaningfully from 2014 to
2015 with an average-growth pace of 3-5% per annum (Ministry of tourism of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016).
The Ministry of Tourism ensures that the progress and acceleration of the tourism sector should be given in 2019
the Ministry is targeting Indonesia visited by 20 million international tourists or double digit number of tourists in
2015. In 2016, tourism generated foreign exchange resulted in $ 13.2 billion and the routine of local tourists as
much as 260 million trips with the money spent amounted to $ 17.2 billion. While, tourism's contribution to gross
domestic product (GDP), will increase to 5%, and the number of tasks created to 11.7 million workers (BKN,
2016).
The main issue that needs to gain a complete answer is professional limited human resources in tourism and how
its development and environment conservation around this tourist-area can be implemented both in the sense
oriented conservation effort's attraction and conservation of the coastal environment functions. In sum, many
social problems we meet in tourists’ society and to its developing on the issue of acculturation and the
environment (Taslim, 2016).
Indonesia was visited by 7.65 million global tourists in 2011. It’s representing 9.24 per cent growth compared to
2010, and it generated $ 8.55 billion for its improved 12.51 percent cumulatively, between January and September
2013, the number of intercontinental tourists visiting Indonesia has reached the figure of 6,414,149 tourists,
growing 8.8% compared to the same period last year 5,895,288 tourists. With this movement, foreign tourists this
year's target of achieving 8.6 million international tourists will be met (Saputra, 2013). Nevertheless, the
competitiveness of Indonesian tourism continues to ameliorate. Between 139 countries, Indonesia is the number of
70, up to four positions compared to the previous ranking (Fajar, 2014).
