Purbayakti Kusuma Wijayanto / JPAS Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018) 39-46 39 Journal of Public Administration Studies URL: http://www.jpas.ub.ac.id/index.php/jpas Local Autonomy: State-Centered Government Wrapped in Citizen-Centered Governance in the Tourism Development Purbayakti Kusuma Wijayanto a  Soesilo Zauhar a , Luqman Hakim a , Abdullah Said a a Brawijaya University, Malang, East Java, Indonesia 1. Introduction Local autonomy has turned a small tourist village into a famous tourist city. That place is called Batu City. A small tourist village that was originally based on natural tourism turned into a modern-made tourist city. Tourism that uses modern technology in providing tourist experiences for tourists. Tourism that requires large capital to build it. As a new autonomous region, of course, it does not yet have the budget to build it. Local original income is still small. Local original income has not been able to finance the construction of modern-made tourism objects, but in reality, currently nine modern- made tourist objects are built in Batu City. Nine modern-made tourism objects were built by Jatim Park Group. Jatim Park Group is a business firm owned by a capitalist who has a strong relationship with the Second Mayor of Batu City. The presence of modern- made tourism objects cannot be separated from the authoritative actions of the Batu City Government. It is ———  Corresponding author. Tel.: +62-878-2422-5857; e-mail: tanya.purbo@gmail.com suspected that the Second Mayor has an important role in it. The presence of nine modern-made tourism objects contrasts with the traditional life characteristics of the Batu community. The use of modern technology in modern tourism contrasts with the simple agricultural equipment used by the Batu people for farming. The idea of developing modern tourism is certainly not the idea of the Batu community which tends to be closed. In fact, Batu City has become a modern tourism city now. Great modern-made tourism objects have existed in Batu City. More than four million tourist visits have been achieved by Batu City tourism. But many people said, "That is not ours." "We can't do anything.” “Miserable." Some authoritative actions of the local government appear to be different from the established policies. There was a conflict from communitiy elements. Local autonomy (Nordlinger, 1981) speaks about the appropriateness of policy preferences with the authoritative actions that are implemented. Batu City has indeed been established as an autonomous region through ARTICLE INFORMATION ABSTRACT Article history: Data submission : 11 October 2019 1 st revision: 10 November 2019 Accepted: 16 December 2019 Available online: 1 February 2020 This city is called Batu Tourism City. Nine great modern-made tourism objects exist in this city. Four million tourist visits occur in this city. All built only since 16 years of local autonomy that they get. But many people said, "That is not ours." "We can't do anything.” “Miserable." Some authoritative actions of the local government appear to be different from the established policies. There was a conflict from communitiy elements. How exactly is the management of tourism development carried out? The results found four patterns in the management of tourism development. Tourism policy preferences regulated through participatory planning, tourism development is set to improve people's welfare, tourism development is facilitated by the Mayor and the City Government of Batu, and tourism development tends to be carried out by private capitalists through the entrance of tourism business investment. State-Centered Government Wrapped in Citizen-Centered Governance. Local autonomy that occurs is a type of autonomy in which the local government relies on its strong power to translate preferences into public policy under conditions of divergence. A type of autonomy in which public officials use the autonomy authority and the opportunities to free themselves from obstacles from social actors who have different preferences. 2020 FIA UB. All rights reserved. Keywords: local autonomy, tourism development, local government, local governance. JPAS Vol. 5, No. 1, pp 39-46, 2020 © 2020 FIA UB. All right reserved ISSN 2548-902X e-ISSN 2541-6979