Local Government Partnership Strategy in Realizing Sustainable Tourism in East Lombok Indonesia

Tourism sector in indonesia is the potential sector to drive domestic economy. the strength of indonesian tourism lies on natural beauty. east lombok is the tourism destination that has such a natural beauty. sustainable tourism development is major issue in tourism development. in order to realize sustainable tourism principles, these require partnership strategy. this study aims at providing analysis, evaluation and input to policy makers on issues related to partnership between the government and the stakeholders in realizing sustainable tourism in east lombok. this research uses qualitative methods. primary data was obtained from the in-depth interview techniques with main resource persons from ministry of tourism, east lombok district tourism office, east lombok district government and several practitioners related to the research topics. the research results indicate that despite there are many challenges, there are several partnerships carried out by east lombok district government with the stakeholders in developing the tourism sector in east lombok. these include the institutional partnership with the regional tourism promotion agency (bppd), the joint partnerships with several associations in east lombok district and the partnership between the east lombok district government and tourism awareness groups. with these partnerships, there are several public ideas about how to maintain tourism with sustainable tourism concept.