Tri Hita Karana and Tourism in Bali (11)
Excellent Comparison of Local Workers

The crisis currently taking place in the Balinese leadership at hotel, restaurant, travel agencies, and tourism attractions – which has many reasons, such of the locals’ weakness to take on leadership positions – should be wisely analysed while a solution is sought.
As in the comparison, it is also needed to confirm the observation result about “The Excellence of the Balinese Human Resource in Tourism Aspect”, which shows the general excellence of Balinese workers which spring from personal quality and human tolerance as follows:
1. Honesty,
2. Good behaviour,
3. High tolerance of partner,
4. Polite to a person, including guest,
5. Have a playful spirit,
6. Loyal to the company,
7. Physical excellence in suppor- ting the job.
Observing the ‘weaknesses and excellences’ above, few things that need to concern and focus, so the locals can apply for leadership positions within the tourism industry, such as:

1. To cope and deal with the perception about much of the Balinese (Hindu) lifetime when applied to domestic activity (custom and ceremony), needs to explain periodically that the Hindu essence is not only emphasized through the great/excessive ceremonies that are irrelevant within the Hindu norm. Through that link, it should emphasised that there must always be a balance between ritual, morals and tatwa. Besides that, the village awig-awig (rules) that strictly still require the settled member to tedun ngayah (socialize with the other village member in all sorts of village activities) should modified by pacingkrem (sociable funds) for each six months and also attached by consciousness of medana punia (fund for social) for village development. Therefore, the village member who also applies for a leadership position at the tourism industry can work optimally without any obligation for ‘ngayahang desa adat’ (do the social work for certain purposes at the society/village).
2. To cope with the inability of local people in managerial matters, it is time to add a tourism element into the education curriculum, therefore giving the local people a chance to apply for positions as a manager.
3. In short, the unprofessional local people in tourism managerial industry sector can be coped with by improving the local abilities such as traditional agriculture and local culture that is a comparative excellence as the tourism attraction that should be improved in generating nationality tourism. This excellence can not be acquired by any exodus or foreigner.
4. The enormous number of absorbed overseas workers that apply for leadership positions within the tourism industry environment needs to clasp tightly with a policy, so the skill and ability transfer to the local worker can be swiftly procecced. The verification for the overseas worker who is already involvde in this sector should be noticeable, therefore the government (of province and regency/town) will not lose any income resource from the tax sector.

Generally, it may be concluded that in the employment aspect of tourism sector, as the implementation of pawongan aspect, there are several things that can be noted, such as:

1. Only few local people, who absorbed in numerous numbers within the tourism industry such as hotel, restaurant, and tourism, are capable of applying for leadership positions. For one cause is that the local worker is to busy with inter nal, village or domestic business (family, ritual, and custom).
2. ‘Welcoming’ response of the locals’ to the people who join the work force from other regions or abroad. Nevertheless, the incoming workers should be arranged and restricted, because the locals’ are getting troubled with an increase in criminality, and the tourism village is getting disturbed as well.
3. Further tourism development basic is preserving the eco-tourism potency of each of regencies, without disturbing the authenticity of nature.
4. There was no synchronisation between the district regulations about tourism with the higher legislation regulation in common material.
5. There was no distribution of knowledge within the village’s functionary about the tourism legislation regulation and other legislation that is related with the application of environmental conservation basis.
6. There was no knowledge distribution within the tourism entrepreneurs about the approving compulsion of local worker according to Perda No.8/1999.
7. No satisfied service accomplished within the apparatus in out casting the tourism business permit. This manner is less supporting the utility basis application especially in attempting improvement prospect and working prospect improvement.
8. There was no loaded sanction in tourism policy for the transgressor, so the locals’ rights are unsheltered yet.
9. There are four tourism principles that can be used as the model for further improvement:
   (1) small scale,
   (2) low of contains import,
   (3) local’s capability,
   (4) environmental welcoming business.

Those models implemented well, if it supported by a policy that seem to side with the local people.
For that, several ideas that can express as a compass in making a tourism district policy and regulation with the implementation of Tri Hita Karana concept, especially of pawongan aspect, are as follows:

1. Informing people about the Hindu religion that is suitable with Veda, the holy manuscript. Therefore the balance will arise between tattwa (behaviour), etika (ethic) and upacara (ritual), and the Balinese (Hindu) worker will go national and international.
2. A necessity eed to fix the strict village rules, so it is beneficial for all villagers who mengempon (adhere) the rules and shove the citizen for achieving without fear of kesepekang (being isolated) by their own villager.
3. Improvement service needed to the tourist, because mostly the tourism industry promotion is come from friends and relatives who previously visited the island.
4. Comprehensible regulation needed, so the exodus is the one who able to protect the safety of Bali.
5. Observation required about the friendly environmental tourism by evaluating the progressing tourism to prevent the worst environment dilemma that exploited within the tourism industry development.
6. Requirement needed for the perfection of the District Regulation of Culture Tourism by loading consistently for the nationality tourism principle that poured into higher legislation regulation such as GBHN 1999, UU No.9/1990, and PP No.67/1996.
7. It is better to create one District Regulation of Bali Province about the tourism that containing general policy of Bali tourism as the resource for other tourism regulations at the regency/town. The regulation district was no longer entitled as “Culture Tourism” but “Tourism” because culture tourism is one principle of the entire tourism principle that contained in higher legislation regulation.
   
8. It needs to declare an obvious sanction in the district regulation for the transgressor to protect the locals’ right, especially for the implementation of utility principal and participatory.

It certainly needs also the regular and calculated spreading of knowledge that is contained in the national tourism principle for developing the knowledge and community behaviour, so in the end, all the community and government are united in supporting the development of a national tourism model in Bali.
(By THK Awards & Accreditations Team K.G. Dharma Putra, and Berata Ashrama/editor)