Security is the most important aspect in any tourism activities. The number of criminal acts happened in Lombok were 1.315 cases during 2013. It might be happened because there was no community organization which plays as Kelompok Sadar Wisata (POKDARWIS) that focuses to prevent any criminal acts in Jerowaru area. Based on the gap, this study aims to understand description and effect of POKDARWIS to improve tourists' security. This study used monitoring approach, community participation, educational function of tourism awareness, POKDARWIS policy socialization to community, monitoring and evaluation. This study used descriptive analysis method and the data were collected through giving questioners to the respondents (local community). The result of this study was analyzed by using a simple linear regression. The result shows that there is an effect between POKDARWIS and tourists security in amount 17,1%. The rest of 82,9% were affected by other factors which are not discussed in this study.
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