COASTAL TOURISM IN TULUNGAGUNG, EAST JAVA

By: Asri Jul Megita (11614748) – 3SA01

Tourism is one of sector who get many attention in every country. One of area in East Java who development tourism is Tulungagung Regency. Begin from a district named Ngrawa, it develops into regency in East Java and now Tulungagung is as same as the other town in Indonesia. Tulungagung regency has thousands tourism object that interesting to be enjoyed by both, domestic and foreign tourists. However, the coastal tourism is the most popular among them all.  

Tulungagung is located in the southern part of East Java province, which is geographically adjacent to Indian Ocean. Therefore, this regency has many beaches and bay collections which very interesting and excellent. The beach attractions include Popoh Beach, Sine Beach and Molang Beach. 

1. Popoh Beach

The famous beach of Tulung-agung is Popoh Beach. This beach has known by both domestic and foreign tourists. Popoh is faced directly with Hindia Ocean and offers its exotic of beach. This attraction is located in the south of the city is about 30 km which is precisely in the District Besuki. It lies in the bay area, making waves on the beach is not so great. The natural landscape is very exotic beaches where there will be cliffs around the coast.

In this tourism object, you can enjoy the beautiful of nature scenery, astonished with a thousand temples; enjoy the swimming pool, and fauna. In this Popoh Beach is also equipped with lodges facility, fish market, marine tourism, and a few places for fishing. The communities around always held a traditional ceremony called ì Labuh Semboyoî by wash away sacrifice of two goatís head to the sea for the ìrulerî of south sea (Indonesia Ocean). That ceremony is aimed to get a lot of fish from south sea.

These are the analysis of Popoh Beach based on SWOT analysis:
Strength
* Have a regular art performances attractions
* Have a lot of facilities
* Security preserved conducive
* Name already popular
* The access to the beach is very easy to reach, and there’s a public transportation to get there
Weakness
* Type of rocky coastal and wide beach just 6 m
* A lot of PKL (Pedagang Kaki Lima) or the seller who free to selling inside the beach
* Cleanliness is not well maintained
* Many agencies that houses so they overlap
Opportunities
* The number of visitors continues to rise
* There are boat tours
* There are already governing regulations of the development beach tourism
* Integrate the Reco Sewu object as supporting tourism
Threat
* There are no investors involved in the development of coastal
* Lack of awareness of visitors to the maintenance of attraction
* Travelers can not do the activity because the narrow beach and not sandy
* Damage to the beach by sewage and garbage from the river mouth Niama

2. Sine Beach

Not far from Popoh beach, there is a tourism beach that has already to welcome the visitors. It is Sine beach tourism, which located in Sine sub-village, Kalibatur village, Kalidawir district, about 35 km to east side of Tulungagung city. Sine Beach is a brownish white sandy beach, which usually used for sun bathing, with the waves that is quite large.  Not only that, in bright weather from this beach, we can see sun rise directly. The beautiful of sunrise in the sea, is the special characteristic of this beach. So that, many visitors called Sine beach as the Sun Rise beach.

Sine beach is absolutely a hidden heaven. The visitor can feel like it personal beach, because the beach is still deserted. There is no many food seller, or souvenirs, but just a fisherman village which is peace. The visitor will also meet with many tiny crabs here to accompany them walking along the beach.

In the north side of the beach there are cliff which has a lake and there is also a forest.

The accessibility to get there is so hard. The visitor must go through a long way with hard cliff on the side of the road. The direction board is rare. The main road to enter the tourism object have a cavity, but can still be traversed by vehicles. In addition to playing the water and enjoy the natural charm of its beaches, you can also see the activities of local fishermen who will go to the sea.

These are the analysis of Sine Beach based on SWOT analysis:

Strength

* It has a sandy beach, long and wide beach

* Cleanliness is well maintained

* Security preserved conducive

Weakness

* The promotion is only done when there is activity

* The infrastructure supporting a relatively minimal travel

* There are no coastal managers

* Hard access to get there

Opportunities

* Wave is harmless so it can do water sports

* It can developed educational tours of mangroves

* There are already governing regulations of the development beach tourism

Threat

* The number of visitors has not been recorded so that there is no income for the area

* No investor

* Risk of Tsunami

3. Molang Beach

Molang beach is one of beaches that has beautiful scenery as well as being one of the favorite beaches in Tulungagung of East Java. This is because the condition of Molang beach is still very clean, as well as the surrounding natural is still so preserved from damage. So obviously, it makes Molang Beach has become a favorite tourist destination for the traveler to take a vacation while at Tulungagung.

The location of Molang Beach attractions are located in Pucanglaban district, Tulungagung regency of East Java or more precisely in the village of Pucanglaban. Located in the southern part of Tulungagung downtown make the location of Molang Beach is also located near the border Blitar regency between Tulungagung.

The access Molang beach is quite easy to reach by the visitors who want to enjoy the beauty of Molang beach. To reach Molang beach you can through Pucanglaban district of Tulungagung. From Pucanglaban there will be an access road leading to Molang beach location. But the road to get there still has cavity.

Molang beach is on the southern part of Tulungagung facing the Indian Ocean. The beauty is so visible because the beach is a white sandy beach with some parts of the coast in the form of coral. However, due to Molang beach is one of the beaches that are the south coast of East Java, known as a fairly large waves of the Indian Ocean. Therefore you should not swim or play water at this beach because the waves were quite big rolls may be harmful your safety. During the trip to the beach, the visitors will also witnessed the panoramic from shrimp farms. Besides, there are two sources of freshwater that flows throughout the year. The water source named Umbul Drono and Umbul Pacar.

These are the analysis of Molang Beach based on SWOT analysis:

Strength

* In this beach can enjoy a panoramic view of the open sea and sunsets

* Cleanliness is well maintained

* Promotion intensively conducted for local support

* Security preserved conducive

Weakness

* The beach is steep and the slope is quite steep coast

* The access road is quite difficult and far from the city center

* There are no coastal managers

* Infrastructure supporting a relatively minimal travel

Opportunities

* It can enjoy the waves were quite loud

* It can developed a special interest tours fishing especially shrimp farms

* There are already governing re-gulations of the development beach tourism

* Got a local support

Threat

* The number of visitors slightly because access is difficult and far from the city center

* No investor

* The shrimp farm waste pollution around the coast

* Vulnerable to tsunami hazard and landslides

All and all, every beach in Tulungagung has their own characteristics. First, Popoh beach, based on SWOT analysis, is the most popular beach destination in Tulungagung. Many facilities are available in the beach and the access to get there is very easy and near the city center. However, Popoh beach cleanliness is not maintained well and many agencies that houses so they overlap.

Next, Sine Beach, based on SWOT analysis, is the nearby beach from Popoh beach but not as popular as Popoh beach. It is because the access to get there is hard and the facilities is not complete. Therefore, However, the Sine beach, which called Sun Rise beach, has beautiful sand and really clean and peace. Because the beach is still deserted.

The last, Molang Beach, based on SWOT analysis, is white sandy beach with some parts of the coast in the form of coral. The condition of the beach is also clean and there is shrimp farms there. However, the road access to get there still has cavity, the facilities is still not complete, and the visitor may not swim or play water at this beach due to the waves were quite big rolls. 

Criticism and Recommendation

This analysis shows that tourist activity in coastal tourist attraction in Tulungagung district has potential to be developed even better. The formulation of the strategy of the development of coastal tourist attraction is required to figure out the direction of short-term to long-term attraction development of beaches in Tulungagung district. Some of strategies that must be applied to take advantage of the Beach that is having good paved road access and having the event activities held regularly every year. The tourist support facilities and infrastructure around the beach also must be repaired so the tourist can be served properly. Those strategy of the development of coastal tourism in Tulungagung district can be used as master plan in the reorganization of the Regional Tourism Development in Tulungagung district to increase the number of tourists visit, marketing and promotion of tourism in a coastal tourist attraction.

A good tourism activity can provide benefits against the economic growth for the region, in particular towards the surrounding communities that have activity at the sights. The majority of personnel or members of the provider of tourist activity on the tourist attractions is the community that is far from the sights so that the impact of significantly less perceived attractions entirely by the community around tourist attractions. Recommended in particular tourist attraction development managers can be taken, the workforce of the community around tourist attractions. The development of tourism was expected to be a local community based so that economic growth can be felt all layers not only managers and local governments but the surrounding communities.

Development of coastal tourism in full is not entirely delegated to local governments only. Recommendations for beach attractions are to be open and loyal in order to attract investors or private parties to establish cooperation officially in the management and development of coastal tourist attraction. The same work can be done with the company the developer area or non-governmental organizations in the promotion and marketing minimally, hopefully there can be an attractive event or tourism zone establishment in coastal area in Tulungagung district.

P.S.

This beautiful nature is made by God not to be vandalized and destroyed. The tourist will always remember this: “Do not bring anything except photo, do not kill anything, do not leave anything but sweet memories.” Say no to vandalism!