摘要：Security is the most important aspect in any tourism activities. The number of
criminal acts happened in Lombok were 1.315 cases during 2013. It might be
happened because there was no community organization which plays as
Kelompok Sadar Wisata (POKDARWIS) that focuses to prevent any criminal
acts in Jerowaru area. Based on the gap, this study aims to understand
description and effect of POKDARWIS to improve tourists’ security. This study
used monitoring approach, community participation, educational function of
tourism awareness, POKDARWIS policy socialization to community,
monitoring and evaluation. This study used descriptive analysis method and the
data were collected through giving questioners to the respondents (local
community). The result of this study was analyzed by using a simple linear
regression. The result shows that there is an effect between POKDARWIS and
tourists security in amount 17,1%. The rest of 82,9% were affected by other
factors which are not discussed in this study.
