Primarily, the central government of Indonesia during its associated ministries have to be serious about creating the lake and its surrounding regions, the government is expected to creating very good use of their funding allocated via the formation of one authority with jurisdiction to come up with the lake and its surrounding regions as formerly done in different regions in Indonesia. The funding set aside to enhancing the lake and its surrounding regions have to be well and rigorously utilized in its installation and have to tackle the goal unlike the funding formerly allocated before always tainted from the regional governments who have been put in prison on account of their corrupt manners.
Second, following one authority responsible for creating the lake as well as its regions nearby has been shaped, the authorities through local governments in this instance acting as one jurisdiction establish a strategy or a blue print that is completed to build up the lake and the surrounding regions along with the local community that reside in the lake and round it.
Thirdly, the blue print that is composed of the entire strategy to develop the lake should comprise all of the programs of this only tourism jurisdiction without putting aside the requirements and advantages of the men and women who reside at Lake Toba, Samosir Island along with the seven regencies who’ve been living there from generation to generation. The Lake Toba ecosystem and its neighboring regions that serve the folks residing in the region has to be well-maintained, Lake Toba is recognized as the biggest permanent lake body in Southeast Asia along with the participation of this basin and catchment region through fishing and farming as sources of food provides into the community, as well as the woods around the lake at the regencies offer wood and assorted water and herbs to provide two hydropower plants in Siguragura and Tangga in the lake. There are a lot more advantages to human beings, that the Lake Toba ecosystem functions lots of lives, plays an essential role in regulating the water flows and water program, helps resides modulate the air and climate, and dampens environmental disturbances such as storms and flooding, helps as a biological control mechanism to reduce destructive inhabitants and it also encourages the practice of soil formation, photosynthesis, pollination and nutrient cycling.
Fourthly, the government is expected to be busy in assisting the community to maintain their cultural, religious, recreational and aesthetic benefits for individuals in which the Batak tribes in the region are still attached to and preserve their traditional civilization, handed down from generation to generation which cannot be seen in different tribes around the Earth, the indigenous individuals still practice traditional rituals admired by being buried in their homeland, Toba the land of the ancestors, is something many Batak individuals most want and the individuals still maintain tombs and cemeteries containing graves from prehistoric times to the present.
Fifthly, it’s very important that the authorities encourage individuals to conserve their regions as well within the previous two decades population increase and growth has influenced the ecosystem of the lake due to widespread deforestation, drought, and water level decrease, water-quality degradation, invasive species and loss of biological diversity. The individuals ought to be forced to realise how significant it’s to create their areas to stop from being destructed that may have a negative influence on their own lives and in their productions’. The local community across the lake must be assured that by creating the lake as well as their regions, there could be fiscal and financial benefits through tourism sector that’s a favorable way impacting many different parties like tour operators, tourist entrepreneurs, and neighborhood residents as well as the central authorities too.
Sixthly, the authorities during the related government should apply regulations upon those who create land erosion, habitat destruction and widespread deforestation that impacts the slope and property around the lake both individuals and corporates to get profit-seeking company for example for land-use conversion for commercial and industrial development, for agricultural agricultural practices and floating-cage aquaculture from the lake resulting in contamination, both by a compound utilized in agricultural practices and fish foods.
Seventhly, the authorities should consider also the adverse impact of high concentration of tourists that cause water, air and aesthetic pollution apart from growth of solid waste, sewer and littering. Additionally, the lack of biological diversity may happen through tourism activities that in the long term generates the degradation of the ozone layer and climate change, and plenty of negative effects which needs to be taken into consideration by the authorities.
Eventually, the neighborhood ought to be prepared with both arms to confront huge changes to their regions to flip Lake Toba to a world-class tourist destination, so they need to be prepared to confront disruption of the cultural structures and be ready to accommodate themselves to the new scenario that’s advantageous to individuals from now on by inviting visitors to arrive at the lake and into their own areas.
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