Empowering Pecalang To Pursuit Drug-Free Bali Tourism
I Wayan Sukawinaya

Warmadewa University

Abstract

The dominant existence of pecalang has been known on socio-cultural among people of Bali. Despite his role to maintaining security, pecalang has also been a role model symbol of orderliness among traditional society. To utilize this respected figure, pecalang could be a potential asset to pursuit Bali as a tourist destination which free from illicit drug trafficking
and abuse. Tourism business doers could recruit pecalang on guarding their tourist or entertainment site from illicit drug abuse and trafficking, in order to providing a safe and conducive tourism activity. However, pecalang can^t involved to crime eradication including drugs crime yet, due to limited authority which given by existing law, either traditional or
national law. Thus, this paper is aimed to making a new law, in terms as legal basis to empowering pecalang on drugs crime^ eradication, to work together with existing law enforcement officers. Yet, authority restrictions to avoid abuse of power and inefficient function on drug criminal system, must be concerned on that new legislation design. This normative writing is a prescriptive and applied writing, uses literature and sociological approaches, sourced by primary and secondary data with document and literature study collecting technique. First, this paper analyzes role and authority of pecalang, given by all existing law in Bali. Then author will reconcile it to drugs crime national law, before formulate a new law for pecalang as an important role to pursuit drug-free tourism in Bali,

Keywords: Pecalang, Drug-Free Tourism, New Legislation.

Topic: Law on Tourism