VISA-FREE POLICY: ELIMINATING OR PRESERVING BALI LOCAL WISDOM?

The foreign policy that is being developed by the government in order to enhance number of tourists coming to Indonesia seems to be a cause of pros and cons from various circles. The amount of foreign exchange generated through the tourism sector is indeed amazing seeing government as a solution to improve our economy in the current era of globalization. The high level of competition between states has caused Indonesia to start thinking about how to enhance the number of tourists coming to Indonesia. Bali in particular as a tourism area become an area that is so encouraged to be able to continue enhance the number of tourists every year. But the question is whether government is able to boost the economy in this sector without seeing various effects that can appear, one of them is number of tourists that is increasing in quantity but not in quality of the tourists also their purchasing power in this state. Another thing is that many tourists come from China.In terms of language, our society must adapt to their language to be able to treat tourists who come. Practically, lots of tour guides being brought to Bali came from outside of Bali, therefore this causes concern for local Balinese who feel unrivaled. From this research, researchers will conduct a study on whether this policy will eliminate or preserve the values of existing local wisdom to the welfare of the local society and whether there is a role that can be done by government to protect the local society along with their values so that they can keep on preserving the local wisdom as one appeal of the Island of the Gods.