Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, ICSS 2019, 5-6 November 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia

Research Article

Analysis of Community Participation in Managing Sipin Lake, Jambi City

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.5-11-2019.2292502,
        author={M.  Yusuf and Samsuddin  Samsuddin and Maiela  Yuskha},
        title={Analysis of Community Participation in Managing Sipin Lake, Jambi City},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, ICSS 2019, 5-6 November 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICSS},
        year={2020},
        month={3},
        keywords={community participation rise sipin lake tourism management},
        doi={10.4108/eai.5-11-2019.2292502}
    }
    
  • M. Yusuf
    Samsuddin Samsuddin
    Maiela Yuskha
    Year: 2020
    Analysis of Community Participation in Managing Sipin Lake, Jambi City
    ICSS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.5-11-2019.2292502
M. Yusuf1,*, Samsuddin Samsuddin2, Maiela Yuskha2
  • 1: Universitas Jambi, Indonesia
  • 2: Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik Nurdin Hamzah, Indonesia
*Contact email: myusuf@unja.ac.id

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the rise of community participation in the management of Sipin lake. The tourism management will be effective with community involvement, while the lack of participation caused the failure of development; even people resist the government policies. Various literature discusses this issue focus on a normative perspective that considers the community has to be involved. This article relevant to analyze the participation from the bottom perspective, which focuses on the process, actors, and factors. This study uses a qualitative explorative method, the data collected from an interview, observation, and various sources. The result shows that participation in the management of tourism objects rise from the process of taking a role by actors for reasons of economic benefits, concern for environmental and cultural conditions, and response to policies. This study highlights that the rising factor of participation is a response to the planning and policy implementation that not involve non-governmental actors.