Local Community Empowerment Strategy In Developing The Tourism Village Of Pulewulung Sleman

Abstract

Purpose: Local community empowerment is an effort to increase awareness, capacity and independence of the local tourism village community in developing the Pulewulung Tourism Village. This research aims to determine the empowerment strategies and analyze the inhibiting and supporting factors in the process of empowering the local communities in the Pulewulung Tourism Village.

Methods: The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative with data collecting technique through interview, observation and documentation. This research uses a theory of 3 empowerment processes according to Adriyani (2017), namely the awareness process, capacity building process, and empowerment process.

Result: The results of this research show that tourism villages often do not have sufficient involvement in developing the tourism villages. Likewise, the Pulewulung Tourism Village still needs to optimize the capabilities of the local communities in developing a tourism village. The obstacle of empowering the local communities is the limited human resources (HR) who are competent in the tourism sector and almost all local communities use tourism villages as part-time job. However, local community empowerment also has supporting factor that is adequate infrastructure which supports the empowerment and commitment of the government and the local community of Pulewulung Tourism Village.