FOREST AREA TOURISM VILLAGE MANAGEMENT: REGULATORY ANALYSIS IN KARANGANYAR REGENCY AS AN EFFORT TO REALIZE SUSTAINABLE TOURISM

Abstract

The existence of regional autonomy which is a process of decentralization of authority provides space for local governments to regulate and manage their own government affairs and community interests in their territory. One form of authority is in terms of tourism management contained in Article 12 paragraph (3) letter b of Law Number 23 Year 2014 concerning Regional Government. With this authority, the regional government has the right to establish policies to organize tourism management in its area. One of them is Karanganyar Regency which has a lot of tourism potential and there are 29 tourist villages. Therefore, the regulations and policies issued by the Regional Government must be based on the principle of sustainable tourism in accordance with the mandate of the Tourism Law and further contained in Permenparekraf Number 9 of 2021 concerning Sustainable Tourism Guidelines so that the ecological function of the forest is not disturbed. This study aims to analyze the regulation and implementation of tourism village management in the Karanganyar Regency forest area in implementing the principles of sustainable tourism. The method used in this research is normative legal research method, which is legal research from the point of view of applicable norms and is prescriptive. With the research approach used is a statutory approach and conceptual approach. The statutory approach is used to analyze the regulations related to the management of tourist villages in the forest area of Karanganyar Regency. While the conceptual approach is used to analyze legal issues in the management of forest area tourism villages that are associated with the hope of sustainable tourism.