EVALUATION OF POLICY IMPLEMENTATION 2018 VISIT YEAR AS AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE THE ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE OF THE COMMUNITY IN SUMENEP REGENCY

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the implementation of visit year 2018 policy as a way to developed regional tourism and increase regional economic independence . The program of visit  year 2018 started to be planned as policy featured local of  Sumenep government  since  2016. The policy as the program featured to develop a variety of tourism potential of the region, such as marine tourism, health tourism, tourism keris, culture and palace. But in fact, the increase in the economy of Sumenep district from 2016-2018 was quite slow, the increase was only 0,20 percent, the lowest compared to other districts in East Java . This condition is related to the ineffective implementation of the 2018 visit year policy. Good policies without effective implementation, policies will not be success (Akib and Tarigan, 2008). Policy implementation needs to get more attention, because policies will not find expectations if the implementation is not optimal (Pulzl and Treib. 2014: 127). This study uses a qualitative descriptive method. This study explained that the policy implementation of the visit year 2018 was not effective. 4 (four) indicators of policy implementation as in Edward III's theory, and the environmental aspects of implementation proposed by Nakamura and Smallwood (1980) , not running optimally, 1) human resources are not optimally prepared, and development is slow, 2) coordination and communication between actors in tourism development is still weak, 3) The dispositions didn’t work systematically organized, 4) The aspects of bureaucratic structure still occur over lapping between each OPD .The study recommends that need to be did developing human resources, the coordination and effective communicate between actors in the policy, and the disposition clearly, especially in the OPD. Keywords: Evaluation , policy implementation , visit year 2018, economic independence