Oleh:Muhammad Nizar
Solomon Islands, dependence from United Kingdom 7 July 1978, is located at Melanesia. Actually, Solomon Islands has good tourism in beach sector, it means diving because it is archipelago state which has good coral atoll views. But there are many problems with the limitation of transportation and infrastructure. Many people say that almost the conditions of tourism in Pacific Islands are look like ‘paradise’. It is true because of the naturally condition of Pacific Islands especially for Solomon Island.
The effort to develop the tourism sector will face the ancient problem, it is financial. Financial aid is very essential for growing up this tourism. The limitation of aid will only reduce the income of Solomon people. Principal aid donors to Solomon Islands are Australia $247 million per year (2006 est), New Zealand $14 million per year (2004 est), European Union, Japan $40 million (2005 est), and Taiwan (Republic of China) $20 million per year. From the data above, we can get the point that Solomon Islands use many ways to receipt the aid. Especially case for Taiwan, Solomon Islands approved Taiwan as independence country from the mainland which is Peoples Republic of China (PRC). This foreign policy is very pragmatic for Solomon Island and Taiwan do all the things to get recognition from all countries to fight Mainland China at United Nations Convention. Because of Taiwan foreign policy act, Solomon Islands get the benefit in order to develop the potential service industries especially tourism.
Solomon Islands is very depending on eco-tourism. But, there is a problem on the ecosystem. Last time, many countries did nuclear testing in the Pacific Island especially in the coral atoll islands. The impact of this activity will face Solomon Islands in the future. Even though, Solomon Islands wasn’t directly as targeting of nuclear testing, the impact of that will be predicted to Solomon Islands. Because of that, Solomon Islands protest to the former colony to give aid in order to survive from the lack of environment. Beside of that, Solomon Islands is also very vulnerable to the natural disaster like earthquake resulting Tsunami which was occurred on April 2007, and UNICEF took a part in rescuing the victims of Tsunami in Solomon Islands.
In the other hand, tourism is not only giving positive effect in economy, but also giving negative effects in environmental. Some tourists don’t respect the cleanness of atoll area. Atoll area is very essential in getting much income, because it’s beautiful diving area. If there isn’t clean atoll, the consequence is there isn’t tourist who wants to come and enjoy the diving area. This will be Solomon Islands’ awareness to maintain the cleanness of eco-tourism which is one of the top of income source.
Beside the eco-tourism, US Department of states noted that Solomon Islands also has sex-tourism. This will be problems because prostituted in Solomon Island is illegal, but there are a lot of cases that did not enforced by the law and was a serious problem. This case is also being human right activist which has interest in saving the right of women. The government of Solomon Islands should fully concern to fix the sex-tourism problem in tourism in order to increase the Human Development Index (HDI).
The other negative effect is foreign tourism investment. The profit of this investment will be brought to overseas by the investor, and the local peoples only take the trickle down effect of this tourism. Solomon Islands only get surplus in capital account, but in the future, the profit of tourism will be out to the foreign investors. Meanwhile, the expensive cost to the area tourism of Solomon Island will be highly concerned by the tourists who want to visit in this country. All of positive and negative of foreign aids and tourism above will be our concerned in analyses more deeply, especially in the capacity of international relations scholars.
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The effort to develop the tourism sector will face the ancient problem, it is financial. Financial aid is very essential for growing up this tourism. The limitation of aid will only reduce the income of Solomon people. Principal aid donors to Solomon Islands are Australia $247 million per year (2006 est), New Zealand $14 million per year (2004 est), European Union, Japan $40 million (2005 est), and Taiwan (Republic of China) $20 million per year. From the data above, we can get the point that Solomon Islands use many ways to receipt the aid. Especially case for Taiwan, Solomon Islands approved Taiwan as independence country from the mainland which is Peoples Republic of China (PRC). This foreign policy is very pragmatic for Solomon Island and Taiwan do all the things to get recognition from all countries to fight Mainland China at United Nations Convention. Because of Taiwan foreign policy act, Solomon Islands get the benefit in order to develop the potential service industries especially tourism.
Solomon Islands is very depending on eco-tourism. But, there is a problem on the ecosystem. Last time, many countries did nuclear testing in the Pacific Island especially in the coral atoll islands. The impact of this activity will face Solomon Islands in the future. Even though, Solomon Islands wasn’t directly as targeting of nuclear testing, the impact of that will be predicted to Solomon Islands. Because of that, Solomon Islands protest to the former colony to give aid in order to survive from the lack of environment. Beside of that, Solomon Islands is also very vulnerable to the natural disaster like earthquake resulting Tsunami which was occurred on April 2007, and UNICEF took a part in rescuing the victims of Tsunami in Solomon Islands.
In the other hand, tourism is not only giving positive effect in economy, but also giving negative effects in environmental. Some tourists don’t respect the cleanness of atoll area. Atoll area is very essential in getting much income, because it’s beautiful diving area. If there isn’t clean atoll, the consequence is there isn’t tourist who wants to come and enjoy the diving area. This will be Solomon Islands’ awareness to maintain the cleanness of eco-tourism which is one of the top of income source.
Beside the eco-tourism, US Department of states noted that Solomon Islands also has sex-tourism. This will be problems because prostituted in Solomon Island is illegal, but there are a lot of cases that did not enforced by the law and was a serious problem. This case is also being human right activist which has interest in saving the right of women. The government of Solomon Islands should fully concern to fix the sex-tourism problem in tourism in order to increase the Human Development Index (HDI).
The other negative effect is foreign tourism investment. The profit of this investment will be brought to overseas by the investor, and the local peoples only take the trickle down effect of this tourism. Solomon Islands only get surplus in capital account, but in the future, the profit of tourism will be out to the foreign investors. Meanwhile, the expensive cost to the area tourism of Solomon Island will be highly concerned by the tourists who want to visit in this country. All of positive and negative of foreign aids and tourism above will be our concerned in analyses more deeply, especially in the capacity of international relations scholars.
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