PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT DALAM POLITIK BIROKRASI PARIWISATA

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Abstract

Community Empowerment in Politics Bureaucracy of Tourism. Community empowermentin tourism activities is the expansion of freedom of choice and action on sustainable developmentof economic sectors. This freedom is very limited for the common people and also the poorsbecause of their inability to convey their aspiration. This oopportunity of powerlessness becomeseven greater if their chance to governmental access, tourism market, and traditions of societyhave been undermined by the big investors' interest. On this consideration, a small communityneeds empowerment, both in the individual and collective level of the tourism sector. Doingempowerment of small communities is tantamount to demanding efforts of eliminating the causeof the inability and improve the quality of life through revolving capital assistance, developmenttourism infrastructure aid, development of local tourism associations, strengthening partnershipsof the tourism creative industries, and the facilitation of continuous assistance.