Abstract
The social, cultural, economic, and environmental potentials in Subak Sembung are not well-developed, such that these potentials have not been adequately explored by the local community. This study aimed to describe the synergy between subak and the ecotourism in supporting the sustainable national food stability program. Subak Sembung selected as the study location because its location in the middle of Denpasar City and already developed as ecotourism sites. There were 66 participants involved in this study. Formal surveys, rapid appraisal, and map-making through satellite imaging from the Google Earth Pro (GE) application were used to collect the data. Result revealed that the social economy social activities conducted by the farmer were: (1) seed-producing tools, fertilizers, pesticides, agricultural tools, (2) land-tillage, nurseries, cultivating, preserving the plant, harvesting, (3) marketing, and (4) the correlation between farmers, subak and ecotourism; worth to be developed as a tourist attraction site.
Highlights
The tourism sector in Bali is rapidly developing
The result of this study found that the development of community-based-ecotourism in Banda performed based on the sustainable concept by forming an organization consisted of expertise in ecotourism and community member who actively involved in ecotourism, to maintain a sustainable development in its economic, social, and environmental aspects
This study aimed to describe the synergy between the subak and ecotourism in supporting the national food stability programs that divided into two specific aims: 1) mapping the social economy activity of the farmer in Subak Sembung and 2) digitally map the Subak Sembung area
Summary
Despite its positive impact on the economic aspect, it caused extreme agricultural land conversion to settlements or tourism supporting facilities in Denpasar city. Those land conversions contributed to the massive decrease of the rice paddy field and threaten the existence of the subak (Bali’s traditional water control system in rice paddy field). To respond to this issue, the Bali government transformed the rice paddy field area in Bali as a tourism object which based on the ecotourism principles, expected to maintain the subak existence in Denpasar City. The appearance of ecotourism as one of the tourisms that focus on the nature, undoubtedly supported
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