DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7446095 673 | V17.I12 VILLAGES STRENGTHENING IN CONSERVATION OF RIVER WATER AS A NEW NORMAL INTEGRATED TOURISM DESTINATION IN BALI I MADE SUWITRA 1 , I KETUT KASTA ARYA WIJAYA 2 , I MADE GIANYAR 3 , NI MADE SUKARYATI KARMA 4 and NI PUTU SAWITRI NANDARI 5 1,2,3,4 Faculty of Law Universitas Warmadewa Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia 5 Faculty of Law Universitas Pendidikan Nasional Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia Email address: 1 madesuwitra27@gmail.com, 2 kastaaryawijaya@gmail.com, 3 mdgianyar63 @ gmail.com, 4 sukaryati64@gmail.com, 5 sawitrinandari@gmail.com ABSTRACT River water in Bali has the potential as an integrated tourist destination and attraction in the New Normal era. Therefore, it is necessary to construct the concept of coexistence in the legal system for the management and utilization of river water. The Covid-19 pandemic has become a challenge in designing the potential of river water which has been neglected and even used as a place to dispose of garbage and household waste. In its utilization, it is no longer managed by the village (Indigenous Villages and Official Villages), river water management is carried out by environmentally concerned communities in the form of Foundation. The succeed in its management starts from education, especially to the community around the river to raise awareness and participation in conserving river water and preserving the environment. River water management is integrated with water attractions, baths, culinary, jogging tracks and fitness parks, and children's playgrounds. The creation of this new tourist destination is beneficial for the micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) market opportunity which directly becomes a new source of income for rural communities. Therefore, a coexistence pattern is needed in the management of river water in the perspective of "ecotourism". Keywords: coexistence. ecotourism, education, water atraction. 1. INTRODUCTION Bali has a duality in the village government system, namely the Traditional Village and the Official Village as a characteristic that does not exist in other regions in Indonesia. The existence of Traditional Villages and Official Villages is Bali's strength and advantage to compete in the global grid. However, the existence of the Traditional Village was hit by first storm with the issuance of Law no. 5 of 1979 which provided the opportunity to be merged as an official village. Likewise, the issuance of Law no. 6 of 2014 was the second storm because it provided a registration menu to become an Administrative Village. Meanwhile, the terms village and customary village in the Village Law are very clearly different from the term Traditional Village which is regulated in Regional Regulation 06 of 1986 which has been replaced with Regional Regulation 3 of 2001 in conjunction with 3 of 2003 and lastly substituted with Regional Regulation 4 of 2019 concerning Traditional Villages in Bali. Through the efforts made by Team 8 (eight) of Denpasar City Government together with the Legislature to re-declare that the Indigenous Village is maintained and not registered according to the Village Law No. 6 of 2014. The struggle from Denpasar for Bali was not easy because