Local community’s perception, attitude, and participation towards different level management of geopark: A comparison Geosite case study, between Muroto Cape and Rammang-rammang Geosite

Community’s participation is a principal success key of a geopark. Community’s participation has relation with development of geopark. Analysis of community’s participation is complicated, there are many variables that can influence it that might come from internal and external of community’s perception. In addition, some of the variables that influence community’s participation sometimes imaginary, that must be analyze deeply to find their effect and relation among other variables. Through this research, it expecting to analyze all of the variables in scope of geosite. Case study were used from two geosites at different level management (UNESCO Global Geopark/UGG and National Geopark). Thus, the conclusion from this study can be used as reference information for introspection between case studies, and also information to accelerate the development of geopark without regard the aspects of sustainability. This study used a case study model with quantitative-qualitative analysis through analysis of EFA, SEM, and MANOVA. This analysis equipped with questionnaire to collect data based on role observation carried out at the beginning of the study. The results of this study indicate that there are differences in the level of community participation that are not paralel with level of management status of the geopark itself. This is caused by various variables which include internal and eksternal variable of participation itsel. Both case studies indicate weaknesses with each other that can complement each other. Therefore, final results of this study conclude that the importance of quality and quantity of social relations are evenly distributed in the management of geopark. As well as strengthening internal relations in a geopark, it is considered more important that external relations in the development of a geopark.