Analysis of Community Participation in Managing Sipin Lake, Jambi City

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.