Reformation on Local Tourism Permit Practice in Indonesia: A Case in Semarang Regency

Abstract

Tourism was programmed to increase national income by improving an effective and valuable tourist object. Nowadays, tourism was being organized by both national and local government through incorporation with the third party. Tourism is a wide part of tourist object, tourist, tourism policy, and supporting tourism facilities that all of them should be integrated to build of that effective and valuable Indonesian tourism. Tourism development area should be stipulated on government regulation in their regional urban land use planning. That could be the government guidelines to setting and mapping the tourism policy based on the land use planning. But, tourism development area in Semarang Regency was contradicted to the urban land use planning regulation where happened of a rejection of tourist resort's location permit submission because of unclear and un-related regulation substance. That resort was classified as cultural heritage-based resort according to national Indonesian cultural protection regulation hence it was concluded as tourism supporting facility. The result of the research was public permit issuance at Semarang government had bad public service because of carpe diem problem. The resort had been accused to establish above Semarang urban green space and destructing river bank next to the resort land. According to Semarang Regional Government the resort break the rule of urban land use planning for agriculture land. Besides, there is indication of corrupt mentality among the government apparatus to let the permit by asking any beneficial feedbacks. The way to reform Semarang government was by moral reformation depend on Van Peurseun cultural theory.

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