About the Workshop

The workshop is a three-day participatory process to develop ecotourism standard operating procedures and conservation rules for two mangrove destinations on the coast of Kabupaten Lombok Timur: the mangrove ecotourism area of Desa Sugian and the mangrove ecotourism area of Denda Seruni, Desa Seruni Mumbul.

1. Background#

Both villages receive visitors already. What neither village yet has is a written, agreed answer to the questions every visitor creates: who may guide, which routes may be used, how many people a trail can carry, who collects the fee, and how that fee returns to the people protecting the mangrove.

Without those answers the same track is used in three different ways by three different groups, safety depends on whoever is present that day, and the community that carries the cost of protection does not automatically receive a share of the benefit. The workshop exists to close that gap with procedures the villages themselves can enforce.

2. The mangrove ecotourism context#

Mangrove forest is at once a conservation area, a livelihood source and an emerging tourism asset. Those three functions are compatible only when the boundaries between them are explicit — a protection zone that is genuinely closed, a utilisation zone where activities are allowed under conditions, and a visitor route that does not cut through the first to reach the second.

Ecotourism development in the two villages is driven largely by community groups rather than by an established management body. That is the reason the workshop works on institutions, money and safety alongside the ecological material: a procedure without an owner, a budget and a safety rule is a document, not an operating system.

3. Objectives and targets#

• Develop ecotourism standard operating procedures for Desa Sugian and Desa Seruni Mumbul.
• Agree conservation rules for the mangrove area, and the zones to which each rule applies.
• Strengthen the capacity of village managers, guides and community groups through six structured learning sessions.
• Produce a financial allocation proposal that the communities can read, discuss and decide on.
• Agree an action plan and a monitoring arrangement for the period after the workshop.

4. The participatory approach#

The workshop uses a Pentahelix approach: village government and community, government agencies, academia, the private sector and media all sit in the same process. The method is deliberately practical — a short technical input from a practitioner, then group work, then joint drafting, then a simulation that tests whether the draft survives a realistic situation.

5. Two target destinations#

Ekowisata Mangrove Sugian and Ekowisata Mangrove Denda Seruni, Desa Seruni Mumbul are treated as two separate management units throughout the workshop. Each has its own SOP register, its own conservation map and its own community agreement process, because each village decides for itself.

Where the two villages share a coastline, a risk or a market, the workshop records the shared issue and leaves the decision with each village.

6. Scope of the SOP work#

The SOP registry runs from SOP-01 to SOP-12 and covers the operational spine of a village ecotourism unit: governance and mandate, reservation and visitor handling, guiding and interpretation, safety and water rescue, conservation and zoning compliance, facility and equipment maintenance, finance and revenue sharing, records and reporting, complaints, incident handling, monitoring, and periodic review.

Each procedure is written with a purpose, a scope, a responsible party, an operational sequence, a checklist where relevant, and its status. The status is not decoration: a procedure is Draft until the responsible parties approve it, and this portal never labels a draft as approved.

7. Expected results#

• A documented SOP package for both villages, with an explicit status for every procedure.
• Village conservation and spatial maps that distinguish protection zones from tourism activity areas.
• A financial allocation proposal for Sugian, and an open community agreement process for Seruni Mumbul.
• An action plan and a 30–60–90 day roadmap with owners and monitoring.
• A documented learning record that the villages and the programme can return to.

8. From learning to follow-up#

The six learning sessions are not an end in themselves. Each session feeds a specific part of the SOP package and the action plan: the governance session shapes the institutional structure, the conservation session shapes the zoning rules, the safety session shapes the emergency procedure, the budgeting session shapes the allocation policy, and the simulation tests whether the whole set holds together.

The follow-up section of this portal tracks how far each output has moved — including the parts that are still open, such as the purpose of the remaining 15 per cent of the Sugian allocation and the verification of spatial and permit status.