The Efforts of Regional Government in Increasing Locally Generated Revenue (Case Study of Lake Weekuri Management, Southwest Sumba Regency)
The aims of this research was to find out the efforts of Southwest Sumba Regional Government in Managing Object Lake Weekuri to Increase Locally Generated Revenue (PAD). This research used descriptive qualitative approach in which the researcher as the key instrument in collecting the data by doing interview to some informants. The results show that the efforts conducted by Tourism Office and Bappeda Institute the Southwest Sumba Barat regency as organiser includes: developing guard houses (gates), developing lopo to intermediate stepping stones and tourists, for the destruction of their forests mangrove, the rehabilitation and planting of new trees in locations that do not exist step by step, providing counseling to the perpetrators and the community is an effort to provide tourism services so that they have a sense of ownership and concern for Lake Weekuri tourism objects and to increase the human resources workforce. Bappeda Institute gave tourism officials, attended seminars, and conducted comparative studies. Factors that encourage the development of Lake Weekuri attractions include: the attractiveness of Lake Weekuri, the means of good relations, management side by side with the Tourism Office and the Bappeda Institute, conditions around the lake that are still experiencing. While the inhibiting factors consist of, lack of concern of the actors and the community towards the efforts of tourism services and professional labor. The contribution of the Lake Weekuri destination object for local revenue is still small even though per year it almost always increases.