Low-Impact-Development as an Implementation of the Eco-Green-Tourism Concept to Develop Kampung towards Sustainable City

AbstractKampung is an urban area (where a group of people lives) with an Indonesian settlement local identity. This characteristic of kampung has the potential to be an asset of the city tourism. The presented tourism potentials include the construction of social, cultural, environmental, and historical values. Development of the tourist-kampung, one of which is the case study in Kauman Surakarta, is still not optimal. This tendency is seen in the development of several regions that started to lose some local characters. Such character shifting is among others the changes in the function and region physical order due to the developments that neglects the environment. Therefore, this research is an applied research for the proper and integrated handling in the development of tourist-kampung. The purpose of this research is to make a model formulation of the tourist-kampung development through the low-impact-development, to put into realization an eco-green-tourism which supports the city sustainability. This research used the natural observation method with content and comparative analysis. Determining the location of the research is based on purposive random with considering the potential value of the local-wisdom characteristics that still exist and flourish. The analysis was performed through three stages. First, identified the potential tourist-kampung character dominance as a development in the tourism sector, which includes physical and non-physical aspects. Second, the empowerment of the community participatory potentials which roots in local-wisdom. Third, the arrangement based on the eco-green-tourism concept on the management of natural resources and an environmental-friendly physical development of the kampung area. The result of this research is the model formulation for the development policy of tourist-kampung, with a case study of the Kauman tourist-kampung. The policy model can be the tourist-kampung development pilot project in Indonesia. The application of the concept in this study can be implementation steps useful to enrich the eco-green-tourism concept