Maritime Tourism Essay

I. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study Indonesia is one of the country in Southeast Asia that is crossed by the equator and located between Asia and Australia, also between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea and also has been called as archipelago or a chain of islands because it consists of a number of islands between 13,000 and more than 17,000. It is bordered by Malaysia (on Borneo), Papua New Guinea (on the island of New Guinea), Timor-Leste (East Timor) on the island of Timor (Mccoll, 2005). As an archipelago country, Indonesia has lots of natural wealth with various cultures, customs, and religions which can certainly be utilized in the field of tourism as a commodity sector that is very good for the economy and as a second

The governments have to know how to make our maritime tourism stand out by issuing a regulation or policies to protect the environment, provide the best facilities, and started to build a good infrastructure to support it. Therefore, the maritime tourism can be known and could be attract many tourists to come to Indonesia. Not only to increase the capital, but the government also can use the maritime tourism as a tool to promote Indonesian culture to the world, so the culture can be recognized and cannot be stolen. Just by looking at the previous years, the roles of the governments to increase the maritime tourism is not too adequate or enough to strengthen the Indonesian tourism itself. In fact, Indonesia has lots of islands that can be used for opening new maritime tourism destination. However in reality, the governments only focus on some island that is already famous and bring lots of income to Indonesia. The example of this issue are Bali and Raja

1.4 Research Objectives

This research aims to find out the role of the government under Joko Widodo administration in order to promote the maritime tourism. Also, want to know how the government improves and manage the maritime tourism nowadays. Moreover, this research also wants to explore how much tourism contributes toward national income and analyze the factors or impacts of the improvement itself. Furthermore, the research also will investigate the success and the obstacles of the government.

1.5 Significance of the Study

The significance of this research is expected to give a development of study in International Relations in the future and also can give information as a material of study for student, especially in International Relations study and observer of this issue. Although since the president has give lots of efforts and contribution to improve the maritime tourism that can be very beneficial for Indonesia, the author would like to describe that the process and how the government involves to improve the maritime tourism to achieve its national