Collaborative Governance in Ecotourism Development: The Role of Political Actors and Institutional Challenges in Barru Regency

This study examines the involvement of local government actors in the development of ecotourism in Barru Regency, South Sulawesi. Ecotourism, as defined by Law Number 10 of 2009 and Minister of Home Affairs Regulation Number 33 of 2009, emphasizes the balance between environmental conservation, community empowerment, and economic growth. Despite Barru’s rich natural potential, the implementation of ecotourism policies remains suboptimal due to limited human resources, weak institutional coordination, and the absence of specific local regulations. Using a qualitative descriptive approach, this study reveals that local government plays a central role in planning, facilitating, and regulating ecotourism activities; however, the effectiveness of these roles is constrained by bureaucratic and financial challenges. Strengthening collaboration among government institutions, the private sector, and local communities is essential to achieving sustainable ecotourism development. The findings recommend that the Barru Regency Government formulate a regional regulation on sustainable ecotourism as a strategic step to harmonize national and local policies, promote participatory governance, and enhance the welfare of local communities through environmentally responsible tourism.

The supervision of the Regional People’s Legislative Assembly as one of the functions of Parliament is the main pillar of democracy. The supervisory function should be measurable so that the performance of the members of Regional People’s Legislative Assembly can be visible. The optimal performance of the members of Regional People’s Legislative Assembly should be ensured in order that accountable and transparent governance can be achieved. On another dimension, members of Barru Regency Regional People’s Legislative Assembly and members of Pangkajene Islands Regency Regional People’s Legislative Assembly should have the same perception of the model of supervision of Regional People’s Legislative Assembly. The same perception is expected to give birth to a positive synergy between Regional People’s Legislative Assembly and Regional Government so that it will enhance an accountable and transparent governance that will ultimately enhance the welfare of society. The long term goal of this research is the inception of the policy in the for of Draft Model Regional Regulations (Ranperda) and the Code of Conduct Supervision Model of Regional People’s Legislative Assembly based on performance against Regional Regulation in Barru Regency and Pangkep Islands Regency that has a good standard from legal and political side so that it can be manifest an accountable and transparent governance. The short term goals are (i) to develop a supervision mechanism of the Regional People’s Legislative Assembly against the Regional Regulation in Barru Regency and Pangkep Islands Regency (ii) to develop performance supervision of member of Regional People’s Legislative Assembly towards Regional Regulations in Barru Regency and Pangkep Islands Regency, (iii) to develop supervision model of Regional People’s Legislative Assembly based on performance against Regional Regulation in Barru Regency and Pangkep Islands Regency, (iv) piloted supervision model of Regional People’s Legislative Assembly based on accountable performance and valid through validation expert, practitioners review (Politician), response of Member Regional People’s Legislative Assembly and a test model in Barru Regency and Pangkep Islands Regency. This studies was designed with qualitative method with data collection validation and techniques i.e., observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The stages are (i) data reduction, (ii) data display, (iii) verification and conclusion. Data analysis is done through : (1) analysis of validity, (2) analysis of practicability, and (3) analysis of effectiveness. The result of the research indicates that the Regional People’s Legislative Assembly supervision mechanism against regional regulation in Barru and Pangkep regency is not optimal yet due to the absence of regulation which specifically regulates Regional People’s Legislative Assembly supervision mechanism through Faction, Commission, special committee, work meeting, working visit and hearing, (ii) Regional People’s Legislative Assembly performance in both Barru and Pangkep regency, especially those related to productivity, quality, responsibility, accountability, qualification is low and limited

Strategic Planning and Political Dynamics in the Management of BUMDesa in Tasikmalaya Regency, 2022-2024: A Case Study of BUMDesa Warga Saluyu in Sukaluyu Village, Mangunreja Subdistrict, and BUMDesa Walatra in Salawu Village, Salawu Subdistrict, Tasikmalaya Regency, examines how strategic planning is implemented in BUMDesa Warga Saluyu and BUMDesa Walatra, as well as how local political dynamics influence the implementation of policies. This research uses a qualitative method with a case study approach to analyze strategic planning and political dynamics in the management of BUMDesa, combining primary data from in-depth interviews and field observations with secondary data from media documentation and previous studies. The findings show that strategic planning in the management of BUMDesa in Tasikmalaya Regency, such as in BUMDesa Warga Saluyu and BUMDesa Walatra, is directed toward the development of local potential, particularly in the fields of tourism and agriculture. However, challenges include limited resources and local political dynamics that affect policy and program implementation. Based on Lorange’s theory in Bryson regarding Mission, Strategy, Budget, and Control, this study emphasizes the need for a comprehensive approach to strategic planning and the management of BUMDesa in Tasikmalaya Regency. Furthermore, the analysis also considers the implications of local political dynamics and the role of regional governments and communities in managing BUMDesa. Overall, this research provides valuable insights into the capacity of BUMDesa Warga Saluyu and BUMDesa Walatra in implementing strategic planning, highlighting the importance of effective collaboration and coordination among stakeholders to improve community welfare and promote sustainable village development.

This study investigates Collaborative Governance through Public Service Malls in Barru Regency using a qualitative, descriptive approach. Primary and secondary data sources from five informants were collected through observation, interviews, and documentation techniques, with data validity ensured using triangulation techniques. The research reveals that the Assessment phase aligns stakeholders' objectives, with the Barru Regency DPMPTSP trusted to facilitate other agencies' integration into the Public Service Mall (MPP) to realize excellent service. In the Initiation phase, the primary organizing resource is the Barru Regency DPMPTSP, while the MPP's funding sources are charged to the APBD. The Deliberation phase has been effective, demonstrating a commitment to cooperation articulated in a Memorandum of Understanding. The Implementation phase of the Public Service Mall in Barru Regency has been successful overall, as it facilitates both licensing and non-licensing services for the local community.

This study aims to critically assess government policies in implementing village authority in governance based on Law No. 6 of 2014 concerning Villages. This law grants greater authority to villages to manage and regulate the interests of local communities based on initiatives, original rights, and/or traditional rights that are recognized and respected within the governance system of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. This research conducts a literature review of various relevant sources to analyze how government policies have been implemented at the village level and the challenges faced in their implementation. The study also explores the role of village governments in governance and the obstacles that arise due to limited resources, capacity, and support from both central and regional governments. The findings indicate that although Law No. 6 of 2014 provides a clear legal framework for villages to manage their own affairs, the implementation of these policies still faces numerous challenges. These include the lack of understanding and capacity of village officials, as well as suboptimal support from regional and central governments. This research suggests the need for enhancing the capacity of village officials and providing more concrete support from both central and regional governments to ensure that village authority can be effectively and efficiently exercisedThis study aims to critically assess government policies in implementing village authority in governance based on Law No. 6 of 2014 concerning Villages. This law grants greater authority to villages to manage and regulate the interests of local communities based on initiatives, original rights, and/or traditional rights that are recognized and respected within the governance system of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. This research conducts a literature review of various relevant sources to analyze how government policies have been implemented at the village level and the challenges faced in their implementation. The study also explores the role of village governments in governance and the obstacles that arise due to limited resources, capacity, and support from both central and regional governments. The findings indicate that although Law No. 6 of 2014 provides a clear legal framework for villages to manage their own affairs, the implementation of these policies still faces numerous challenges. These include the lack of understanding and capacity of village officials, as well as suboptimal support from regional and central governments. This research suggests the need for enhancing the capacity of village officials and providing more concrete support from both central and regional governments to ensure that village authority can be effectively and efficiently exercised

The purpose of this study is to analyze and describe the role of local government in improving the economy and welfare of the Wamensa great tribal community in West Papua, through a sustainable customary forest development program in the perspective of Collaborative Governance in Public Service. Collaborative governance is an important process in the Indonesian government today. The government implements Collaborative governance by providing space for other actors to participate, such as the national private, foreign, and public. Collaborative management aims to reduce conflict, facilitate learning, and increase consensus among stakeholders. As a legal administrator, the government should work effectively and efficiently in providing good public services to all citizens. Currently, West Papua still has around 81% of sustainable forest remaining, with a wealth of various types of wild animals with ecosystems in it (mega-biodiversity). Local Government as key in making policies has impacts on improving the economy and people's welfare. This research used a qualitative method with a case study in the customary forest of the Wamesa great tribe in West Papua. The study results showed that there are 3 main indicators to support the success of the Government's role in sustainable forest development, such as; economic, social, and ecological. However, there is a governance Pillar in the paradigm of public administration to show the success of collaborative governance. It required collaborative governance management synergically between government and non-government actors. The aim is to consensus on adaptive solutions through forest resource management. They are concerned with economic, social, and ecological complexities, as a concrete form of the vision and mission of the Regional Government in providing public services, as a portfolio documentation of national development.

Regional autonomy is an important concept in the system of government in Indonesia, which aims to give freedom and authority to the regions in managing government and development affairs. This study aims to analyze the implementation of regional autonomy from the perspective of national legal politics by focusing on several regions in Indonesia. This research uses a qualitative method with a case study approach. Data were obtained through in-depth interviews with local government officials, legislators, academics and other stakeholders involved in the implementation of regional autonomy. Apart from that, data was also collected through analysis of documents and policies related to regional autonomy. The results of the research show that the implementation of regional autonomy in Indonesia still faces several political and legal challenges. There are tensions between the central and regional governments regarding the division of powers and the allocation of resources. Some regions have succeeded in implementing autonomy properly, while there are also regions that have experienced problems in optimizing the authority they have. Political factors, such as local political dynamics, the influence of political parties and certain political interests, influence the implementation of regional autonomy. In addition, legal aspects, including complex laws and regulations and differences in legal interpretation between the central and regional governments, are also obstacles in the implementation of autonomy. This research produces policy recommendations to improve the implementation of regional autonomy in Indonesia. A more comprehensive approach is needed to improve coordination between the central and regional governments in making strategic decisions. Strengthening capacity and fostering human resources at the regional level is also the key to increasing the implementation of regional autonomy that is more effective and efficient from the perspective of national legal politics.

IntroductionThe need to deal with complex problems in contemporary society has given rise to a growing interest in collaboration across the public, private, and non-profit sectors (Ferlie, Hartley, and Martin, 2003; Osborne, 2006; Christensen and Laegreid, 2011). As such, collaborative governance initiatives emerge in public organizations with the aim of involving stakeholders in co-creating solutions for problems related to issues of policy and service innovation (Ansell and Gash, 2008; Sorensen and Torfing, 2013). The assumption is that interorganizational collaboration can co-create public value and innovation through:[A]n emergent process - one driven more by a concern about solving certain common problems than by a desire to respond to narrowly conceived incentives. This emergent process of bringing together parties to identify opportunities for public value creation leads to strong demands for a kind of 'simultaneous engineering' [...] as a process of collaborative design. (Ansell and Torfing, 2014: 10)However, in addition to its potential, the literature highlights considerable challenges of multi-actor interactions and interests. These issues are addressed in conceptual and practice-based models as design and implementation issues in terms of, for example, stakeholder inclusion, decision-making processes, power relations, and trust building (Vangen, Hayes, and Cornforth, 2014).As such, social interaction within and between collaborations is stressed as the potential source of both success and failure owing to actors' idea generation and value creation, but also interest conflicts, and goal confusion (Bryson et al., 2012). For instance, various actors concerned with healthcare issues, such as nurses, doctors, politicians, and patient organizations, may have different definitions of a shared problem. Through collaboration, they engage in dialogue that may broaden their understandings of both the problem and its possible solutions. However, this may also cause misunderstandings, frustration, and ineffective work. Despite efforts to theorize such aspects in terms of design and implementation issues, the practices to organize this form of governance remain tricky accomplishments (Huxham, Vangen, and Eden, 2000; Vangen and Huxham, 2011). Thus, a growing interest in understanding the emerging processes of collaborative governance designs and their socially dynamic and open-ended generative mechanisms is stressed (Ansell and Torfing, 2014: 3; Bryson et al., 2012: 24). This makes communicative interactions and discourse critical aspects to consider in relation to design and implementation in collaborative governance theory and practice (Purdy, 2012). However the conceptualizing of such is underdeveloped and their significance to understanding the organizing of this form of governance remain unexplored in greater detail.In light of this, the article contributes with theorizing and unfolding communication and discursive aspects of the emerging processes of collaborative governance designs with the aim of understanding such accomplishments in greater detail. In so doing, it draws on organizational discourse studies of interorganizational collaboration and change, although these are not particularly concerned with public organizations (Hardy, Lawrence, and Grant, 2005; Thomas, Sargent, and Hardy, 2011). These offer useful concepts of communication and meaning negotiations, with which the article explores how collaborative governance designs emerge, are organized and change. The findings are based on an ethnographic case study of two local governments' collaborative governance practices in an effort to innovate quality - management methods for public daycare services in Denmark. Here daycare is a central welfare area, as up to 97% of all 0-6 year-old children are enrolled in daycare services. As such, these both ensure the gender equality in the labor force and serve as part of the overall Scandinavian education model (Plum, 2012). …

The commitment of the Ngawi Regency Government to preventing corruption in public procurement can be observed through the implementation of the collaborative governance concept. This study aims to analyze how collaborative governance practices are implemented in preventing corruption in the procurement of goods and services in Ngawi Regency, as well as to identify the factors that support and hinder the effectiveness of such collaboration. The research data were collected through observations and in-depth interviews, as well as documentation review of relevant literature and previous studies. The informants in this study included officials responsible for public procurement within the Ngawi Regency Government, the Ngawi Resort Police, the Ngawi District Attorney’s Office, and representatives of non-governmental organizations. Data analysis employed an interactive approach that emphasizes the cyclical, simultaneous, and iterative nature of the analytical process, which begins at the initial stage of data collection and continues through to the drawing of conclusions. Overall, the findings indicate that collaborative governance practices in preventing corruption in the procurement of goods and services in Ngawi Regency have shown a positive direction; however, further strengthening is still required in terms of the substantive aspects of collaboration. Existing collaboration tends to be more prominent in the form of administrative coordination among government institutions, while the involvement of the private sector and civil society remains limited. This condition suggests that collaborative governance has not yet been fully understood as a process of shared decision-making and joint oversight, but is still perceived primarily as a form of formal institutional cooperation.

This article discusses the role of the manager in collaborative governance studies. These studies identify a new managerial role as facilitator of stakeholder collaboration when pursuing public policy and service innovation. But the complications of role changes are underexplored; hence this article addresses the emerging challenges. Drawing on organizational discourse studies, it theorizes and analyzes managers’ positioning during collaborative governance practices in cases from the Danish daycare area. The findings demonstrate how public managers construct old and new roles related to various public management discourses, and their struggles to change accordingly. However, the findings also show how managers empower their new role and gain agency to steer collaborative outcomes. Thereby the article unpacks the challenges of becoming a facilitating manager alongside other roles: the struggles of identity and agency constitutive to particular ways of managing, as well as struggles over multiple roles. It suggests paying greater attention to constitutive aspects of changing roles to understand the managerial challenges and effects implied through emerging public management discourses.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the existence of collaborative governance in the development of marine ecotourism in a sustainable manner in Bintan Regency, Riau Islands Province using a collaborative governance model approach. This study uses a qualitative approach, where the researcher performs one stage of qualitative data collection at a time, simultaneously (concurrently). This research is useful for increasing basic knowledge about the relationship between marine ecotourism development institutions, and also enriching the knowledge base, especially in the field of public administration. Besides, this research does not provide practical applications that can be applied in the short term but can become a basis for knowledge in solving problems and making policies related to improving institutional relations between institutions in the development of marine ecotourism. Then, it can be implemented by stakeholders and also the Regional Government of Bintan Regency in the development of sustainable marine ecotourism.
 The collaborative institutional strengthening model has an important role in building community involvement. This model can strengthen network systems and information flow and reduce disagreements between stakeholders. An important role in the development of local indigenous-based tourism potential, not only in the role of the central or regional government but also the role of all actors in the tourism community who have an important role in developing sustainable tourism.

This article critically examined Indonesia’s policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change within the global climate regime and local political dynamics. A qualitative method and a multilevel governance approach were utilized, emphasizing the dispersion of power both vertically among various levels of governance and horizontally among different quasi-governmental and non-governmental organizations and actors. The analysis unveiled that Indonesia’s climate change policies have involved supranational governance facilitated by global-level regimes and institutions. The government has played a strategic role in aligning itself with these global environmental regimes by implementing laws and policy measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions, control deforestation rates, and address forest degradation. Achieving these governance tasks involved active participation from local governments, municipalities, and non-state actors such as businesses and the community.

The general election directly conducted to vote for the regent and vice regent (Pemilihan Kepala Daerah, abbreviated to Pilkada) by the people in Badung Regency in 2005 was the first one. The people’s direct involvement in the local political life moved highly dynamically. The struggle for power by various strengths affected various dimensions of the people’s lives; therefore, it is interesting to investigate the local political dynamics in the Pilkada directly conducted in Badung Regency in 2005 in the perspective of cultural studies. There are three problems formulated in this study. They are (1) what was the dynamics of the Pilkada directly conducted in Badung Regency in 2005 like?; (2) how the relation of strengths affected the local political dynamics in the Pilkada directly conducted in Badung Regency in 2005?; (3) what were the implications and meanings of the local political dynamics of the Pilkada directly conducted in Badung Regency in 2005? The results of the study show that fluctuative changes took place continuously with regard to the form and functions of societal structure. Culturally, the people’s ideology changed from being mono centric into being multi centric. The relation of strengths became segmented into three main strengths forming a new formation of strength referred to as trisula. This led to an institutional configuration, differentiation of power and locality sedimentation, and provided meanings to competition and tolerance, emancipatory, political comodification, adaptive leadership and local democratic cultural strengthening. Keywords: dynamics, local politics, and direct pilkada in Badung Regency

Scholars have engaged in an ongoing dialogue about the relationships among management, politics, and law in public administration. Collaborative governance presents new challenges to this dynamic. While scholars have made substantial contributions to our understanding of the design and practice of collaborative governance, others suggest that we lack theory for this emerging body of research. Law is often omitted as a variable. Scholarship generally does not explicitly include collaboration as a public value. This article addresses the dialogue on management, politics, and law with regard to collaborative governance. It provides an overview of the current legal framework for collaborative governance in the United States at the federal, state, and local levels of government and identifies gaps. The institutional analysis and development framework provides a body of theory that incorporates rules and law into research design. The article concludes that future research on collaborative governance should incorporate the legal framework as an important variable and collaboration as a public value.

This study aims to analyze licensing and local business legalization, collaborative governance, and simultaneous digitization of public services. This study takes a case study in Barru District, South Sulawesi. The reason for choosing this case study is because Barru Regency is one of the regencies that has implemented breakthrough innovations in the field of business licensing and has been recognized nationally. This research uses a qualitative approach by relying on online research methods (ORMs) to collect data and information through official government websites. The analysis tool used is Nvivo 12 Plus for data coding. The findings of this study indicate that the Government of Barru District has adopted the concept of collaborative governance and digitization of public services to encourage licensing and legalization of local businesses. It involves the involvement of local governments, the private sector and the general public in a more transparent, accountable and efficient licensing process and business management. The government has also explicitly set up a licensing agency to personally visit business actors. In addition, the government also initiated website-based digital services. The government's official website in Barru District has positively contributed to providing easy and fast access to public services, such as information on business licensing applications, investment opportunities, service standards, and sectoral data mapping. Complaint services and call centres are also available to assist the community in providing input and complaints related to public services regarding licensing and legalization of local businesses.