Kendari City Government Successfully Organizes Slums, Bungkutoko-Petoaha Turned Into Waterfront City

Kendari Mayor, H Sulkarnain Kadir (ANTARA)

KENDARI - The Kendari City Government, Southeast Sulawesi (Sultra) has managed to organize several slum areas into tourist destinations through the City Without Slums (KOTAKU) program.

One of those included in the KOTAKU program is the Bungkutoko and Petoaha areas which are arranged into new tourist destinations with the concept of a waterfront city (water tourism).

This was stated by the Mayor of Kendari, H Sulkarnain Kadir, when he was a resource person at the Interactive Dialogue Outside the Lintas Kendari Pagi Studio on the topic "Development and Arrangement of the Bungkutoko and Petoaha Areas," Antara, Wednesday, September 29.

"The Kendari City Government continues to organize slum areas in Kendari City through the City Without Slums (KOTAKU) program to become a more comfortable and clean area."

With the development of this water tourism, Sulkarnain hopes that the local community will help keep it functioning for a long time. This waterfront city can improve the welfare of the community and advance the Kendari City area.

The mayor also explained that in the area there will also be a coaching program and home stay development for the local community.

"The home stay is intended for tourists to be able to enjoy water tourist destinations," he said.

In addition to pampering tourists, he said, the provision of this inn can also help the economy of local residents whose houses are willing to be used as home stays.

"We have an obsession that when the COVID-19 pandemic ends, we want a bay festival every year in the Bungkutoko and Petoaha areas. This is intended to bring people to this place so that it can have an economic impact on the government and the local community," he concluded.