Jurnal Riset Kajian Teknologi dan Lingkungan (JRKTL) ||Volume|| 2 ||Issue|| 1 ||Pages|| 31 - 37 ||2019|| p-ISSN: 2621 – 3222 || e-ISSN: 2621 – 301X SMART VILLAGE CONCEPT AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN SUMBAWA REGENCY Ivon Arisanti* Departemen of Psychology, Sumbawa University of Technology, Sumbawa Besar, Indonesia Email: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT------------------------------------------------------------ The complexity of the development problems faced by Sumbawa Regency nowadays require an acceleration to realize rural development-based development, especially the development of villages to become smart villages through: smart economy, smart mobility, smart environment, smart people, smart living, and smart government. These six elements are dimensions of Smart City that can be synergized with the development of Smart Village in advancing and developing the potential of Sumbawa Regency. The programs that can be carried out by the Sumbawa Regency Government in developing smart villages are based on the needs of each village such as the tepal village, one of the cultural villages, can attract tourists by making the bolic pan to strengthen cellular signals so that the internet is easier to accessed and tourism promotion can be intensified. For the village of Poto, the application of the command center in the village is expected to be able to easily access services and/or complaints. Services/complaints will be handled easily because they are connected to the application in the village office so that village officials can swiftly handle various complaints from the community. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) display that can monitor the activities of the community in the village especially for the important access center such as village halls, schools and health centers. The CCTV can also display the SME products. Economic improvement through the empowerment of any potential in each village can be mastered by improving the functions and roles of MSMEs and cooperatives, providing facilities and infrastructure that support tourism development such as hotels, adequate road access, directions, flood-free roads, convenient parking, cooperation between stakeholders in increasing tourism, the availability of local products as souvenirs, a clean environment, and providing tourist information center in the strategic places making it easier for tourists when visiting. Keywords – smart village, tourism ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accepted: December 2018 Published: May 2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- in the east, Indian Ocean in the south and West I. PRELIMINARY Sumbawa Regency in the west. Sumbawa Sumbawa Regency is a district located district has promising potential, especially the in the island of Sumbawa. Sumbawa Regency tourism sector. Complete tourism options is as one of the ten regencies/cities in the West ranging from cultural tourism, nature tourism, Nusa Tenggara Province, located in the religious tourism, culinary tourism, shopping western part of Sumbawa Island, with an area tours, sports tourism is one of the main of 6,643.98 Km2. In terms of topography, the attractions of tourism in Sumbawa Regency. land surface of Sumbawa Regency is uneven Sumbawa Regency consists of 24 or tends to be hilly with altitudes ranging from (twenty-four) sub-districts with the district 0 to 1,730 meters above sea level, where most capital located in Sumbawa Besar, with of them (355,108 ha or 41.81%) are at an details as follows: altitude of 100 to 500 meters. Meanwhile the Table of Division and Area of altitude for the subdistrict cities in Sumbawa Administrative Region of Sumbawa Regency Regency ranges from 10 to 650 meters above in 2017 sea level. The capital city of Batulanteh Subdistrict, Semongkat, is the highest sub- district capital, while Sumbawa Besar is the lowest sub-district capital in Sumbawa. The boundaries of Sumbawa district are Flores Sea and Saleh Bay in the north, Dompu Regency 31 Jurnal Riset Kajian Teknologi dan Lingkungan (JRKTL) ||Volume|| 2 ||Issue|| 1 ||Pages|| 31 - 37 ||2019|| p-ISSN: 2621 – 3222 || e-ISSN: 2621 – 301X In terms of development, infrastructure improvements can be achieved with the presence of Sultan Kaharuddin airport, Samota Bridge, Dams (suh as Batu Bulan dam, Mama Dam and Pernek dam) provide electricity, and providing facilities and transportation between villages and sub- districts. Other kind of infrastructures needed are such as energy, clean water, telecommunications, health facilities, banking, trade centers, sports buildings, hotels and hospitals. The availability of these infrastructures are very adequate and must be supported conducively by environmental factors for the economic and investment Data Source: Sumbawa Regency Statistics activities. Environmental factors such as ease Center 2017 of business, quality education environment, Sumbawa Regency has 157 villages and community environment will support which all have potentials not only natural local political stability. resources but also tourism. These are With all the views above, the unplanned evidenced by many natural and cultural development process will cause villages, with potentials that can be enjoyed. The Sumbawa tourism potential, to reach a phase of Regency tourism is able to attract its own stagnation in the short term. For this reason, a attention, especially the coastal areas and comprehensive handling of village small islands around Sumbawa regency, such development is needed, especially for smart as Moyo Island, Bedil Island, and Bungin villages based on tourism development in Island, Ai Beling Water Fall as one of the Sumbawa Regency. waterfalls available at Sumbawa Regency, Tering Batu Area which stores historical value II. DISCUSSION of human civilization with the existence of A. Smart Village Concept in Sumbawa sarcophagi and Liang Petang Cave which has District stalacmiths and stalcites inside it, Mamak and The concept of a smart village adopted Batu Bulan Dam area, and Istana Dalam Loka from smart city concept prioritizes a city order as a duplication of traditional houses to ease people to get information quickly. In representing NTB at the Beautiful Indonesia the concept of a smart village, the level of Mini Park, and Yellow Bala as a Royal success of a program is measured by looking Museum. at the performance carried out in managing In addition to natural scenery, cultural the resources so that resources will become tourism has its own characteristics in adding more effective and sustainable by involving the tourism attractions of this region, such as all elements in the community not only Karapan Kerbau, horse racing with jockeys government and academics but also (horsemen) age of 9-12 years old, the community social institutions. characteristic of a stilt house, berempuk With the dominant of people living in (regional boxing arts) as a manifestation of the urban areas has triggered the government to success of the harvest, karaci, weaving as one build rural areas more, so people are interested of the livelihoods of the people of Sumbawa, living in villages and utilizing the potential of Tepal village maintain the preservation of the village. This has actually been stated in the their ancestral Samawa culture and dressed government program, 3rd Nawacita, which using the traditional weaving fabric. reads: ‘building Indonesia from the periphery by strengthening regions and villages within 32 Jurnal Riset Kajian Teknologi dan Lingkungan (JRKTL) ||Volume|| 2 ||Issue|| 1 ||Pages|| 31 - 37 ||2019|| p-ISSN: 2621 – 3222 || e-ISSN: 2621 – 301X the framework of a unitary state'. In 2015 the the needs of tourists on tour, based on reasons government gradually carried out the mandate and tourist destinations. stated in law number 6 year 2014 about Based on this, the natural resources and villages where there was an obligation for the the cultural potential increasingly enriches the government to provide village funds. Village diversity in Sumbawa Regency. The funds allocated are used to develop rural areas Development of village websites has been with its aim is to realizing the independence encouraged to date but in its application there of rural communities so that the independence are many villages that have not been able to of village is sustainable. Self-sufficient take advantage of the potential that exists villages can make villages more attractive to through the information technology system to be occupied, visited or targeted for attract investors and even foreign tourists to investment. Therefore, innovative steps need come. to be taken, one of which is to create smart One of the village that can be developed villages. Smart village is a series of Universal with the Smart Village Concept is Poto Service Obligation (USO) Programs which Village which has cultural potential are intended as a means of introducing maintained until now. Cultural tourism Information and Communication Technology activities such as: traditional weaving, pottery (ICT) to the community, so that it will making, and attractions of horse and buffalo increase productivity and the economy of the racing are activities carried out sustainably. region. Poto Village can be used as a pilot villages in One way to improve the economy