Partisipasi Masyarakat dalam Pengelolaan Wisata Alam Volcano Tour Merapi

Gunawan Siringoringo, Agus Heruanto Hadna

2015 | Tesis | Manajemen dan Kebijakan Publik

ABSTRACT This study examines society‘s participation in managing nature tourism volcano tour Merapi in DesaUmbulharjo, KecamatanCangkringan, KabupatenSleman. The observed participations are idea participation, brawn participation as well as utilization participation and examination on factors affecting the participation level of the local people in managing volcano tour nature tourism. This study‗s background is the uniqueness in this volcano tour nature tourism. This type of tourism can belong to dark tourism category. Dark tourism is a location that attracts visitors who are interested in disasters, slaughterhouses and other dreadful incidents. With background like Mount Merapi eruption that happened in 2010, local people considered it as an opportunity to develop the location into a tourist area. Society worked together in rebuilding this tourist attraction after Merapi eruption by naming it as ―volcano tour‖ which previously known as ―lava tour‖ and the idea came into fruition. Since the re-opening of the area as tourist area with various tourist attractions, the tourists rolled in for the sake of curiosity about the impacts of the eruption to watch the remains of Merapi eruption. The visitors that came are not only domestic tourists but also a lot of foreign excursionists. As time goes by, the numbers of the visitors coming to volcano tour nature tourism began to dwindle and it impacted to the amount of society‘s participation, whether in terms of idea, brawn or utilization. For this reason, author thinks that it‘s necessary to conduct a study at the volcano tour nature tourism location to observe the level of participation of society in managing the nature tourism and to study factors influencing level of the participation. The research method used in this study is qualitative descriptive with data sampling using interviews, direct observations and document recording. The footage method that will be employed is―Purposive Sampling‖. The respondents are 20 volcano tour nature tourism managers. There are two data analysis methods used in this study, statistical descriptive analysis and descriptive associative analysis. The result of this study shows that the participation levels preferred by the society who manage volcano tour nature tourism are brawn or physical strength participation, while participations in idea are still moderate and utilization participations are still low. This is because brawn participations don‘t have much impact to the participants‘ education level which only reaches junior high school level or even below. The participations of idea are moderate because the education background of the society has impact on their confidence to talk in front of many people, while the utilization participations are still low for lack of capital in financial support from society that hinders their eagerness to open any business in the tourism area. Factors that influence the growing and development of people participation was done by using CLEAR modelsuch as: Can Do – have the resources and knowledge to participate;Like to – have a sense of attachment that

Kata Kunci : Partisipasi Masyarakat; Pariwisata