RETIRE IN PARADISE URGENSI PENGATURAN PARIWISATA PENSIUNAN (RETIREMENT TOURISM) DI INDONESIA

Considering to a series of problems, especially on the environment posed by conventional tourism development, Indonesia should start developing retirement tourism. Compare to conventional tourism, retirement tourism has more significant benefits, whether viewed from the financial capacity of tourists, job opportunities, tourist attractions, and its proximity with the vision of sustainable tourism. This journal is aimed to analyse the urgency of regulating retirement tourism in Indonesia. This journal is a normative research, combining a statute, a conceptual and a comparative approach. The result shows that from international, national, and local regulations, Indonesia has a legal basis to create and develop retirement tourism. As regards to the construction of regulatory model of retirement tourism in Indonesia, there would be three model to be considered, namely (1) the regulatory model that considers the need and character of retirement tourist; (2) the regulatory model that supports the concept of sustainable tourism; and (3) the regulatory model that collaborates with other tourism-related institutions. Besides, this model should consider the law and practice of retirement tourism in other ASEAN countries, especially if they have much more organised system handling retirement tourism.