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
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!
