Abstract
The policy of strategy ecotourism development in the border area is actually to improve the function of the autonomous village as promised by the Jokowi-JK government policy, which is to build from the periphery. . The development process should not fully follow the logic of the governance structure, but by looking at the needs and the conditions of the asymmetrical region. At least there are several reasons that underlie a policy research. First, because of the condition of the border communities that live in poverty, many migrants work in Malaysia; Second, the inequality of infrastructure facilities between Indonesia and Malaysia which leads to inequality of optimism in public services; Third, the occurrence of business transaction processes that cause dependence on Malaysian society to fulfill their daily needs. The results of the research with a qualitative approach can be concluded that the government does not yet have a strategic agenda for ecotourism development and quantitatively the results of hypothesis testing are significantly proven that there is a natural potential that can be used as an asset of scientific information for the development of an ecotourism model.
Highlights
It can be said that the tourism sector is a leading sector that is very important for each country to increase foreign exchange, job creation, cultural development and education, as well as various business activities in the private sector which are all key of economic growth
This study focuses on community-based sustainable ecotourism to support sustainable tourism in the border region
From the description of the research and the development methodology perspective above, this research is designed based on the principles and development of the following research : Analyzing the ecotourism development policies that have been carried out by the government in the tourism sector in the concept of ecotourism, and arranging the formulation of ecotourism development models in the Indonesia-Malaysia border region
Summary
It can be said that the tourism sector is a leading sector that is very important for each country to increase foreign exchange, job creation, cultural development and education, as well as various business activities in the private sector which are all key of economic growth. At the ASEAN level in the early 1980s, Indonesia especially in tourism sector was the third most successful country in foreign exchange earnings, after Singapore and Thailand. Santosa (1: 2014) in 2016, Thailand outperformed all ASEAN countries in terms of tourism growth with percentage 11.3%, while Indonesia's percentage was only 9.5%. Tourism in Indonesia is an important economic sector in Indonesia. In 2009, tourism was in third rank in terms of foreign exchange earnings after oil and gas commodities and palm oil. Based on 2014 data, the number of foreign tourists coming to Indonesia was 9.4 million or growing by 7.05% compared to the previous year
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