Tangerang Regency is a strategic area in the tourism industry. The regional apparatus that has the authority to provide services for tourism in this area is the Department of Youth, Sports, Culture and Tourism. Situ Kelapa Dua, which is located in Kelapa Dua Village, Tangerang Regency, is a tourism area that has potential attractiveness as environmentally-based sustainable tourism or called ecotourism. This study aims to explain how the authority of local governments in developing ecotourism potential in Situ Kelapa Dua, Tangerang Regency and explain the inhibiting factors and supporting factors of local governments in carrying out their authority. The research method used in this study is an empirical juridical method based on a qualitative data approach sourced from primary data through interviews and field research at the relevant government agencies, namely the Tangerang Regency Youth, Sports, Culture and Tourism Office. Based on the results of the study, it was found that the authority had not run optimally, due to the absence of regional regulations that were formed related to the implementation of tourism in Tangerang Regency. However, the agency has plans related to the preparation of a tourism regional regulation which will take place in 2022. The need for cooperation between related institutions and local communities in overcoming the problems that are inhibiting factors in this development.
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