Tourism has contributed significantly to economic growth, and the government is the leading actor in the tourism development process. This article aims to discuss the role of village government in rural tourism development. The research was conducted qualitatively with a case study in Pujonkidul, a tourist village that is growing and developing into a rural tourism destination rapidly in Indonesia. The research data were collected through a series of in-depth interviews with village governments and main actors in the rural tourism development process. Observation and study of document also carried on during the process of collecting data at the village. The result of study show that the local government is able to carry out all government functions in tourism development (coordination, planning, regulation and legislation, entrepreneurship, stimulus and promotion, social tourism role and boarder role of interest protection). This study also found a new function of government in tourism development which is the main finding of this study, namely institutional development. Therefore, the authors argue that the village government can conduct rural tourism development locally and effectively with its functions and authorities. This finding of study can be adopted and developed in the other villages in the process of rural tourism development. The limitation of this study has ignored the discussion of villagers' participation in the rural tourism development process that is the essential form of rural development issues. This limitation is an important topic for future research.
Contemporary peasant movements are still important to be studied, especially under the reformation era (or the democracy transition). The objective of this study were to analyze the relationship of the determinant factors on peasant movement. Qualitative approach was applied in this case. Data was employed in triangulation using dept interviews, documentations, and secundary data. Result showed that the combination of political opportuniiq structure and structure of resource mobilization affords groups a certain structural potential for action, they remain, in the absence of two other factors, insuffisient to account for peasant movement. The two factor were the sub-culture of peasant opposition as the antecedent factor and collective framing as the mediating factor.Key words: peasant, movement, opposition, political opportunity, resource mobilization, framing collective.
This article deals with the role of social capital in Manggarai on the basis of the following assumptions. First, the incapacity of the poor farmers to develop social capital themselves caused by external and internal constraints. Empowerment and policy approaches are primary in social capital formation. Second, combination of empowerment and policy approaches which seem to be relevant for problem solving. This article is based on field research where qualitative approach was used. Both farmers belonging to Ecopastoral and Non- Ecopastoral clusters have been developing social capitals for themselves used in their trajectories of conversion. The groups belonging to the clusters are important for further policy development through resource mobilization of social capitals own by government, civil society organization and market.
Tarif telekomunikasi menjadi penghambat akses komunikasi masyarakat. Transmisi kabel tembaga yang susah dan rumit serta berbiaya sangat mahal untuk di implementasikan hinga sampai ke desa-desa membuat kondisi semakin tidak baik dan desa semakin tertinggal. Cara terbaik untuk hal tersebut di atas maka “ Fixed Wireless Access” ,merupakan solusi komunikasi radio frekuensi dengan dampak telepon berbiaya murah di daerah perkotaan dan pedesaan sebagai pengganti teknologi kabel tembaga. Indonesia dapat menghindari biaya mahal penggunaan peralatan telekomunikasi asing dengan biaya murah, berkualitas tinggi, dengan peralatan produksi di negeri sendiri seperti membuat perangkat telephone yang murah Pada akhir tahun 1990s, kebutuhan untuk broadband data meningkat, dan channel bandwidth mampu dinaikkan hingga 10 atau 20 MHz. Akses komunikasi murah yang telah dilakukan di daerah terhadap teknologi cdma fixed wireless access (FWA-CDMA) dapat mengatasi gap komunikasi yang terjadi saat ini di Indonesia.
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