Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education & Social Sciences (ICESS 2021)

Rural Tourism: Community Empowerment in Sustainable Development

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Ufi Saraswati
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10.2991/assehr.k.210918.065How to use a DOI?
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Rural Tourism, Community Empowerment, Sustainable Development
Abstract

Along with the dynamics of world and global economic growth, today a new strategy or direction is needed for Indonesia’s development policy. Development that combines growth and equality for the welfare of the entire nation takes effort strategy in accordance with the 1945 Constitution. The strategy is meant Empowerment Basic Strategy outlined in the three (3) directions discretion, include three (3) main points, namely, 1. advocation and empowerment, 2. Consolidation of autonomy and delegation of authority in the management of local development that develop community participation, and 3. Modernization by sharpening and strengthening the direction of change in socioeconomic and cultural structure rooted in local communities. One of the development strategy in order to strengthen local autonomy among them is the idea of the commission was asking the Ministry of Tourism (Kemenpar) RI, to develop alternative tourism destination for the development of tourist destinations in each province / state / city in efforts to comply with foreign tourists. Indonesia with 17.000 potential natural wealth of the 3.000 islands scattered tribes / ethnic nation is the wealth of foreign exchange at the same field for economic development, particularly in the tourism sector. Economic growth in rural communities has been classed as a people’s economy, which is defined as an economy or economic development of a community group that is developing relatively slowly, in this case in rural communities. More popular economy and micro-operational nature, therefore the development of rural tourism can be a solution in an effort to accelerate the economic growth of the Indonesian people. Today, Indonesia with 74.910 villages are the potential that can be developed for tourism in every village. Every village in Indonesia is believed to have economic potential that can be developed and built in addition to agriculture or fisheries and others, namely the Tourism Village. With village tourism as an alternative, it is hoped that the village funds provided by the Government can encourage the village economy to grow rapidly and the village to progress according to the mandate of the UUD 1945 in the corridor of sustainable development.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education & Social Sciences (ICESS 2021)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
18 September 2021
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978-94-6239-433-9
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2352-5398
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10.2991/assehr.k.210918.065How to use a DOI?
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