tourism (Regional Development Planning Agency of Kotabaru Regency (2017)). The natural potential with its flora can be used as nature tourism. The vast expanse of the coast and the cluster of small islands can have great potential to be developed as marine tourism "Nautical". The number of tourist visits in the last 10 years has shown an increasing trend (Figure 1).

Figure 1 The development of tourist visits in Kotabaru, South Kalimantan, Indonesia

 

This increase cannot be separated from the role of the Department of Tourism, Youth and Sports of Kotabaru Regency in promoting tourist attractions as well as improving facilities and infrastructure carried out by Gedambaan Beach tourism object managers to arouse the interest of tourists to visit.

Gedambaan Beach tourism object is a tour managed by the Kotabaru Regency Government. The development of tourism began around 1990 but did not have a clear development direction until 2003 when infrastructure reform activities began to be rebuilt. Gedambaan Beach is located in Gedambaan Village, North Laut Island District, which is approximately 14 km from the capital city of Kotabaru Regency. The Gedambaan beach tourist attraction offers very beautiful natural beauty, in the east, there are mountains full of green trees and in the west, you can see the sunrise, the location of the tourist attraction is on the coast of Laut Island with Sebuku Island having small wave currents so it has no effect on activity on the beach and does not require a breakwater. This condition makes swimming tourism activities at Gedambaan Beach safer (UKK BPP (2017); Irhamm (2020)).

As the tourist attraction develops, more and more problems arise both from visitors and the local community. Some of these problems, such as the destruction of the ecosystem in the form of shortcuts to avoid paying entrance tickets. Differences in parking rates on big days cause anxiety for visitors.

The existence of coastal tourism will have a positive impact on the local community if they can participate in taking advantage of it as a new business opportunity. On the other hand, this condition will have a negative impact on their livelihoods and will only reduce the ecological quality of the coast if all economic actors are not able to maintain environmental sustainability (Lopes et al. (2015); Wu and Tsai (2016); Suardana and Sudiarta (2017); Khrisnamurti et al. (2017); Maliao et al (2017).

Based on the above conditions, whether the management of the Gedambaan beach tourism object which has been managed by employees of the Department Tourism, Youth and Sports of Kotabaru Regency has involved the local community to provide work opportunities and business opportunities for them. The purpose of this study is to analyze how the public's perception of the existence of the Gedambaan Beach tourist attraction area.

 

2.    MATERIALS AND METHODS

This research was conducted from January to April 2021 in Gedambaan Village, North Laut Island District, Kotabaru Regency, South Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. This study used two types of data, namely primary data and secondary data. Primary data was collected directly at the research location through observation, interviews, questionnaires, and documentation, while secondary data was obtained from the Gedambaan Village Profile Book, Gedambaan Beach Visitor Record Book, Kotabaru Regency Tourism Object Book, and the results of other relevant previous studies.

Respondents in this study were local people (family heads) who lived in Gedambaan Village. The number of samples used in this study was 78 people, the determination of the number of respondents who used the Slovin formula approach with an error level of 10%. The Slovin formula (Sugiyono, 2011) using equation 1.

 

                                                                                                            (1)

 

Where,

n        = Number of samples

N       = Total population

e        = Error tolerance

 

Descriptive analysis of community perception

Data analysis for assessing community perceptions of the existence of Gedambaan Tourism Beach used a quantitative descriptive method, namely by scoring from the Likert scale on the answers of all respondents (Table 1) (Metri et al., 2018).

Table 1 Community Perception Assessment
No.	Statement	Score
1.	Strongly Agree (SA)	5
2.	Agree (A)	4
3.	Neither agree nor disagree (NAND)	3
4.	Disagree (D)	2
5.	Strongly Disagree (SD)	1

 

All respondents' answers were calculated using the following equation 2 for each question item.

                  (2)

 

The percentage of results was interpreted based on the following criteria (Riduwan & Sunarto, 2013):

Number of ≤ 20%                     = Strongly Disagree (SD)

Number of > 20 - 40%            = Disagree (D)

Number of > 40% - 60%        = Neither agree nor disagree (NAND)

Number of > 60% - 80%        = Agree (A)

Number of > 80% - 100%     = Strongly Agree (SA)

In this study, 10 questions were asked regarding the management of Gedambaan Beach tourism with the involvement of the surrounding community and their perceived impact. The ten questions are as follows:

1)     Does the existence of the Gedambaan beach tourism object have a positive impact on the household economy of the local community?

2)     Does the Gedambaan beach attraction provide job opportunities for the local community?

3)     Is local community participation needed in its development?

4)     Is it necessary to involve the local community in the conservation of the surrounding environment?

5)     Are socialization and training needed to increase community skills in supporting the development of tourism areas?

6)     Is there a need for a good relationship between the manager and the local community?

7)     Are local people absorbed as labor in the management of this beach tourism object?

8)     Does the existence of this Gedambaan beach attraction open up business opportunities for the local community?

9)     Does the local community support the development of this Gedambaan beach attraction?

10) Do people know that the development of this tourist attraction is a tourism industry?

 

3.    RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

Natural potential in Gedambaan Village

Gedambaan Village has very interesting natural potential. Along the road entering the village area, you can see a green mountain forest area on the right side of the road, namely Mount Mamake (Figure 2), and on the left side of the road you can see a vast expanse of ocean decorated with bagang fisherman. Gedambaan Beach was formerly often called Tiung's Nest Beach, it was said that the story is that many Tiung Birds are living on this beach, so it is called "Tiung's Nest". In 2012, the government expanded Sarang Tiung Village, a tourist attraction that was originally located in Sarang Tiung Village after the expansion of the village, the tour was entered in Gedambaan Village. Now the tourist attraction is called Gedambaan Beach (Figure 3) which comes from the name of the village where the tour is located. The beach manager interprets the name "Gedambaan" as a term from "Dambaan", namely Dambaan Beach for the community.

 

 

 

Figure 2 Mount Mamake, South Kalimantan, Indonesia

 

Visitors can enjoy the beautiful view of the beach and also the beautiful nature of the mountains which are beautiful and green at the same time in one place. The Gedambaan beach tourism area has provided adequate facilities and infrastructure such as an information center, control tower, cottages, open stage, prayer room, gazebo, food and gift stalls, photo spots, playgrounds, and toilets in the form of boats, and swimming pool rides which will soon be reopened after being renovated.

Gedambaan Beach not only provides a variety of comfortable and complete facilities and offers beautiful views, but the manager was also very concerned about the cleanliness of the environment around the tourist attraction to ensure the comfort of visitors with adequate environmental hygiene supporting facilities.

Figure 3 Gedambaan Beach, South Kalimantan, Indonesia

 

 

Community perception of the existence of Gedambaan beach tourism objects

The perception of the Gedambaan Village community towards the existence of the Gedambaan Tourism Object in Kotabaru Regency based on the ten positive questions is illustrated in detail in Figure 4.

Figure 4 Community perception of the existence of Gedambaan beach tourism objects

 

The results of the calculation of the score on the weight of the select scale with the frequency of each respondent's answers are presented in Table 2. Table 2 describes the respondents' perceptions on each question item.

Table 2 Community Perception Score
Questions	Frequency × Weighted Value					Total	%	Category
	SA	A	NAND	D	SD
Positive impact on the local economy	15	44	57	64	13	193	49,49	NAND
Provide job opportunities for local community	10	16	33	68	27	154	39,49	D
Need community participation in development	150	152	30	0	0	332	85,13	SA
Need community involvement in environmental conservation around	140	160	30	0	0	330	84,62	SA
Need socialization/training to increase community skills to support development	205	124	15	2	0	346	88,72	SA
There needs to be a good relationship between the manager and the local community	185	148	12	0	0	345	88,46	SA
Absorption of local people as labor	45	8	0	6	64	123	31,54	D
The community is involved in the development of tourism objects	5	4	24	108	14	155	39,74	D
The community supports the development of tourism objects	315	48	0	6	0	369	94,62	SA
Public knowledge that the development of tourism objects as a tourism industry	360	16	3	2	0	381	97,69	SA

 

Table 2 shows the community views that the existence of Gedambaan Beach Tourism Objects did not have a positive impact on their household economy (score 193 = NAND), this was strongly supported by their perception that the existence of Gedambaan Beach Tourism could not open up job opportunities for them (score 123 = D) because all managers were employees of the Kotabaru District government. This was inseparable from the condition of the level of education of the local community which was relatively low (42% finished elementary school).

The low level of education almost occurs in people in all coastal areas in Indonesia which makes it difficult for them to be able to enter directly as managers or workers. Prihandoko et al stated that fishermen in the North Coast region in West Java on average only attended formal education for about 5 years or the equivalent of 5th-grade elementary school (Prihandoko et al. (2012)). Generally fishermen around and out of the area has low knowledge (Sofia (2017)). In Most beach resorts can open business opportunities such as parking services, mat rental services, bathing places, and stalls to the surrounding community according to their capital capabilities and skills. However, in the Gedambaan Beach Tourism area, Kotabaru Regency, the community felt that the existence of this beach tourism object did not provide new business opportunities for them, it could be seen from the results of the analysis which show a total score of 154 or in the category that states they disagreed (D) on the question stating whether the community can make the area a tourist attraction as a new business opportunity for them. This condition was different from Asmara Beach tourism in Jorong Regency which has a positive impact on improving the community's economy as evidenced by the results of the analysis obtained 65.7% of respondents strongly agree and agree, 26.0% neither agreed nor disagree and 8.3% strongly disagree and disagree. The existence of beach tourism provides business opportunities to 166 people (>10% of productive age) who are involved in user fees, security, parking management, homestay business, food and beverage shops, and public facilities services such as bathrooms and toilets (Hidayat and Agusliani (2020)). This positive impact on job opportunities and business opportunities for the surrounding community was also conveyed by Hermawan (2016) who researched the Nglanggeran Tourism Village and Fyka et al. (2018) who examined Bokori Island Tourism, Soropia District. Even according to Sahir et al. (2014) besides opening job opportunities and business opportunities the existence of Camplong Beach tourism, Sampang Madura Regency is also able to improve the quality of local human resources with various training and increase local revenue. The results of a study explaining that the existence of coastal tourism has a positive impact on the local economy with community involvement have also been carried out by previous study (Andriyani et al. (2012); Cahyo (2014); Dewi (2014); Laksono and Mussadun (2014).

Community involvement in development is necessary, as is the development of coastal tourism. Based on the results of the calculation of the score from the Likert scale, it was found that the people of Gedambaan Village, Kotabaru Regency were of the view that the development of this tourism area needs involvement (330 = SA) and local community participation (332 = SA) as well as good relations between managers and the surrounding community (345 = SA). But unfortunately, the local community felt that they were not involved (155 = D) even though they felt very supportive of the development of this coastal tourism perspective (369 = SA). The tourism awareness group (POKDARWIS) was originally formed but is now no longer active because they felt that the local government was not serious about involving and making it a partner in the development of this coastal tourism area.

Based on the analysis of community perceptions, the Kotabaru Regency government needs to evaluate the governance of this Gedambaan Beach tourist attraction so that the surrounding community can be involved and build togetherness in the management and development of the area while at the same time being able to accept the results of this development to improve the economic conditions of their households apart from income. area. In addition, to increase the Regional Original Income, the community should also be able to feel the benefits of increasing these tourist attractions in improving and distributing community welfare (Zakiah (2019)). Local communities are more aware of the potential that exists in their area (Mahbub et al. (2018)) so that the community cannot be ignored in the development of tourism activity. Policies that prioritize local communities can reduce the number of unemployed in the region (Hadi (2019)). According to Palimbunga, the involvement of the surrounding community can be done at the planning stage where the community is allowed to have an opinion and at the program implementation stage by providing technical guidance to strengthen skills (Palimbunga (2018)).

The lack of quality education can be overcome with training such as homestay/how to receive guests, cooking training, tour guide training, and outbound training (Pamungkas and Muktiali (2015)) or training that produces handicrafts as typical souvenirs. So that person who initially does not have the skills to be able to produce innovations to improve their quality of life. This was potentially done because the people of Gedambaan Village themselves strongly agree that skills training was very necessary for them (346 = SA) and they were very aware that the development of tourism objects is a tourism industry (381 = SA) which continues to require development so that visitors feel comfortable enjoying the natural beauty of the place.

 

4.    CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

The community around the Gedambaan Beach tourist attraction perceives that the existence of the tourism area did not have a positive impact on the local economy because there were no job opportunities and business opportunities for them. The local community also considers that the manager of the tourism area did not involve the community in the management and development of the tourism area. Meanwhile, the local community views that it was necessary to have community participation, cooperation, and support so that the management and development of the area could have a positive impact on the household economy of the surrounding community in addition to increasing the Regional Original Income. The local government of Kotabaru Regency needs to review the management policy of the Gedambaan beach tourism area which is more oriented towards the involvement and empowerment of the local community.

 

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