Abstract
Development must be an important and strategic priority, especially in the coastal border village area to prevent economic disparity, community conflict, and national disintegration. The research aims to analyze the implementation of the empowerment of coastal border of West Kalimantan. The research used qualitative methods of Participatory Learning and Action (PLA), data were collected through in-depth interviews, observation, documentation analysis, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD). The research took place in the coastal border area of Temajuk Village, Paloh District, Sambas Regency, West Kalimantan. Informants heve been purposively selected namely activists, students, community leaders, village government, business groups, academics, and tourists. The research analysis through interactive models by collecting data, reduce, verification, categorization and conclusions. The results showed that (1) Implementation of empowerment can be carried out by conducting counseling and training so as to increase awareness, motivation, knowledge, skills and solidarity between participants from the younger generation who form ecotourism community development. (2) Community development has been successfully formed from a young generation with the name "The Borneo tail" to become an activist who preserves and manages the potential of ecotourism by having the spirit of being a public relations (tourism guide), promotional and marketing services, and typical food and beverage entrepreneurs. (3) Development must continue to be improved, namely road infrastructure, availability of electricity and access to telecommunications networks (internet) as a support in the development of ecotourism, especially in Temajuk Village which is still limited and dependent on Malaysian territory. (4) The village and regional governments, academics, activists of empowerment, environmentalists and tourists need to collaborate in carrying out sustainable ecotourism empowerment programs for Borneo tails as community development.
Highlights
Development in the outer areas of the coastal border becomes important and strategic because it involves the image of the country in the frontier, remote and backward areas of social security, strengthening of the coastal economy, food sovereignty and maritime affairs
The research used qualitative research methods of Participatory Learning and Action (PLA), the stages process of program planning to implementation and monitoring and evaluation of implementation are important set of results, analysis and research discussion. This can be constructed based on the results of the 2018-2019 study which contained several major problems, namely the community of Temajuk Village still has a dependency in meeting their daily basic needs and earning a living by working in Malaysia as a farm laborer, fisherman, carpenter and building maker
The result is recommending to carry out ecotourism empowerment to form young groups concerned about the environment and tourism with the target of student high school in Tmajuk Village with the aim of (1) students have high motivation, attention, concern and participation in participating in the empowerment process for the preservation and development of ecotourism-based tourism
Summary
Development in the outer areas of the coastal border becomes important and strategic because it involves the image of the country in the frontier, remote and backward areas of social security, strengthening of the coastal economy, food sovereignty and maritime affairs. Excerpts from Dharmasaputra (2009), Khairunnisa et al (2017), Firdaus and Rahadian (2018) showed that there a lot of economic potential, especially fisheries and tourism commodities in the prospective coastal border areas They need to be developed seriously and wisely by maintaining, preserving and developing the potential to create prosperity for the community, the development in the coastal border areas is so important, strategic and characterizes the development of a nation. The economy of rural communities is still dependent on Malaysia's neighboring countries, namely as farm laborers in oil palm plantations, rubber plantations, livestock, construction laborers, carpenters, and domestic servant Many ecotourism potentials such as mangrove forests, and processing of food from mangrove fruit, sea turtle breeding, were unplanned, unwell-managed and unwell-organized beach tourism. There are problems in the border area development infrastructure such as the gap of transportation road facilities that are still not good
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