Carocok beach tourism destination is one of the integrated tourism development areas in Pesisir Selatan district, West Sumatra province which already has a Master Plan. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of infrastructure development on the development of tourism and the environment in the Carocok beach tourism area. This study is a causal method survey research involving 180 respondents, stakeholders of the Carocok beach tourism area including the Government, private parties, non-governmental organizations, tourists, and local residents. The sample selection is done in a convenient purposive sampling manner. Data analysis used path analysis which was preceded by test data requirements: normality, multicollinearity, autocorrelation, and heteroscedasticity. The research error rate was set at 5%. The results of the study show that infrastructure development has a significant direct effect on the development of tourism and the environment. Tourism development also has a significant direct effect on the environment.

Macro regional variables are engine in regional economy. Regional economyactivity must be conducted by local resources and supported regulation from localgovernment. Each regency and municipality in West Sumatera have leading sectoreconomy. There are sevent regency/municipality led at primary sector, sixregency/municipality led at secondary sector and and four regency/municipalityled at tertiery sector. Leading sector economy as economic base created goods andservice mobility through interregional trade efficienly and income multiplier effectas well as labour multiplier effect continuously. Therefore, needed governmentpolicy to accomodate the public interest bese on local potential

The research objective was to find out the views of the local community on the infrastructure of the Carocok tourist area, Painan, West Sumatra. The study involved 150 respondents who were asked to answer a questionnaire containing 22 statements. Data analysis uses Important Performance Analysis (IPA). The level of research error is set at 5%. The results of the analysis revealed that overall the infrastructure of the Carocok tourist area, Painan, West Sumatra had fulfilled expectations, as evidenced by the different perceptions and expectations using the Wicoxon Rank Test which produced Asymp. Sig (2-tailed) is 0.558 which is greater than 5%. Nevertheless, out of 22 infrastructure attributes, there are 12 attributes that have not met expectations. Of the 12 attributes that have not met these expectations based on IPA analysis there are three attributes that need to be improved, namely: clean water facilities, various festivals, and various types of arts.

This study aims to analyze the shock response between the variables of economic growth, consumption, investment, government spending, export, poverty, unemployment and income inequality in all provinces in Indonesia during 2015-2021. This research is important because promoting economic stability is a major goal of economic policy and allows other macroeconomic goals to be achieved. The novelty of this study is to analyze shocks to macroeconomic variables consisting of economic growth, fiscal indicators, monetary indicators and welfare indicators by using the Panel Vector Autoregression (PVAR). The results of the study conclude that there is a causal relationship between unemployment and export; unemployment and poverty; poverty and export; unemployment and poverty. Furthermore, variables that have a one-way relationship such as economic growth affect consumption; consumption affects government spending; government spending affects investment; investment affects export. The recommendations from this study require that the government must be proactive in encouraging other elements, such as the private sector, which has a big role in helping government programs run optimally. The limitation of this research is the research methodology because all the research variables are endogenous and only analyze balance in the long run.

Sustainable development is a comprehensive and balance concept to achieve a human quality of life all the time and generation. The sustainable development concept is a correction of the classical model of economic development that concentrates on economic growth despite failing to attain public welfare. Otherwise, the implementation of sustainable development is still hampered by the weak of an institutional system. Weak institutional system causing a conflict of interest and activities of economic rent-seekers and Free Rider, which accelerates the process of destruction and scarcity of natural resources, especially unrenewable resources. Therefore institutional arrangement and enforcement of the rules through the instrument of taxation, subsidies, quotas, and increased community participation with the local wisdom approach should be considered by the policymakers.