OPTIMIZATION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL ON MANAGEMENT OF ECOTOURISM 'S INFRASTRUCTURE
Abstract
Poverty in villages or rural areas is still high, including in Indonesia. A Variety of
creativity from citizens or outside the parties, such as government and nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) has efforts to reduce destitution by optimizing the
potential of the area. One sample of that is developed ecotourism by creating Tourist
Village, as is done by the Candran village, Imogiri, Yogyakarta which was introduced by
citizens as the International Tourist Village.
As a tourist village, the village requires basic infrastructure adequacy. In terms of basic
infrastructure’s management (provisioning and superintend), there are social assets in
the form of social capital that can be developed so that development activities are
implicated in increasing village’s revenue. The process of social capital development can
implicate in a participation way through PRA approach and for analyzing using analytical
approach SOAR (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results). This research
succeeded in formulating the efforts of citizens keeping and procurement infrastructure
through the optimization social capital that developing in the Candran International
Tourist Village.