JAKARTA, Saco-Indonesia.com -
Sektor pariwisata memberikan kontribusi penting bagi negara. Di Indonesia, pariwisata menyumbang
perekonomian sebesar empat persen. Selain itu, pariwisata menyumbang tenaga kerja di Indonesia
sebesar enam sampai tujuh persen.
"Di sektor jasa, pariwisata terbesar
kedua setelah Kereta Api Indonesia. Jadi, pariwisata merupakan sektor penting, oleh sebab itu
perlu prioritas dalam program nasional," ungkap Menteri Pariwisata dan Ekonomi Kreatif
(Menparekraf) Mari Elka Pangestu saat Pengukuhan Pengurus DPP Ikatan Cendekiawan Pariwisata
Indonesia (ICPI), di Jakarta, Selasa (4/6/2013).
Setiap tahunnya semakin
banyak pengajuan pembukaan Perguruan Tinggi Pariwisata yang baru. Pertumbuhannya mencapai 12
persen di tahun 2010. Menurut Mari, ilmu pariwisata adalah kombinasi dari berbagai ilmu, mulai
dari desain, arsitek, ekonomi, dan komunikasi.
Menparekraf mengemukakan
selama ini ilmu pariwisata tidak selalu melalui pendidikan non-formal. Ibarat seorang empu atau
ahli keris, walau tidak pernah mengikuti sekolah formal, tetapi seorang empu tahu seluk-beluk
tentang keris.
Oleh karena itu, tambah Mari, ilmu pariwisata perlu untuk
pengembangan sumber daya manusia yang kompeten, terutama untuk kemajuan pariwisata
Indonesia.
Editor
:Liwon Maulana
Sumber:Kompas.com
Mari: Pariwisata Adalah Sektor Penting
WASHINGTON — During a training course on defending against knife attacks, a young Salt Lake City police officer asked a question: “How close can somebody get to me before I’m justified in using deadly force?”
Dennis Tueller, the instructor in that class more than three decades ago, decided to find out. In the fall of 1982, he performed a rudimentary series of tests and concluded that an armed attacker who bolted toward an officer could clear 21 feet in the time it took most officers to draw, aim and fire their weapon.
The next spring, Mr. Tueller published his findings in SWAT magazine and transformed police training in the United States. The “21-foot rule” became dogma. It has been taught in police academies around the country, accepted by courts and cited by officers to justify countless shootings, including recent episodes involving a homeless woodcarver in Seattle and a schizophrenic woman in San Francisco.
Now, amid the largest national debate over policing since the 1991 beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, a small but vocal set of law enforcement officials are calling for a rethinking of the 21-foot rule and other axioms that have emphasized how to use force, not how to avoid it. Several big-city police departments are already re-examining when officers should chase people or draw their guns and when they should back away, wait or try to defuse the situation
Police Rethink Long Tradition on Using Force