This tourism village website design service builds websites for the three bodies that usually run tourism in an Indonesian village. They are the village government, the tourism awareness group (pokdarwis, a community group that runs local tourism), and the village-owned enterprise (BUM Desa). It also serves privately run recreation parks, swimming pools, and pick-your-own farms.
Visitors find ticket prices, opening hours, a map, activities, homestays, and goods from the village's small businesses in one place. Groups ask their questions on WhatsApp. I build each site myself as a website engineer and technical lead, and the committee can update it without my help.
In short
- A ticket page by category, opening hours with special holiday hours, a map, and emergency numbers.
- A domain that matches the owner: desa.id for the village government, .or.id for a pokdarwis, .co.id for a BUM Desa.
- A written offer the village can use when it procures goods and services.
- Accounts in the owner's name, not a committee member's personal email, so the site stays in good hands when the committee changes.
- A WhatsApp button and a group form that ask only for the data they need.
- The build is paid once. After that you pay for the domain, plus a server if you pick one, and any malware is cleaned up free for 3 months. Start with the form on the homepage.
Tourism villages are multiplying, and so is the competition
I opened the distribution map on Jadesta, the Ministry of Tourism's tourism village platform, on 17 October 2026. For 2026 it listed 4,976 pioneering (rintisan) villages, 1,039 developing, 339 advanced, and 41 self-reliant (mandiri). Domestic travel is growing as well. According to Statistics Indonesia (BPS), domestic tourists made about 1.20 billion trips in 2025, up 17.55 percent. The peak came in April 2025, with 128.59 million trips.
In a June 2026 hearing with Commission VII of the House of Representatives, the Minister of Tourism spoke about the 50 villages that took part in ADWI 2024 (the Indonesian Tourism Village Awards). Their tourism revenue rose from Rp38.48 billion in 2023 to Rp59.60 billion in 2025, as Medcom reported. For advanced tourism villages, the ministry's mentoring now centres on stronger marketing. Thousands of villages offer similar things, so visitors pick the one whose details are clear before they leave home.
Who owns the website decides the domain and the funding
Before anyone talks about design, a tourism village website needs a clear owner. The village government, the pokdarwis, and the BUM Desa are three separate bodies. Each one uses a different kind of domain.
The village government uses a domain ending in desa.id. Komdigi, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, sets the requirements. The domain name officer at the regency or city government applies, with a letter of authorisation from the village head, and the first year is free. The domain then has to be renewed every year. In May 2026, Komdigi sent notices to 6,052 desa.id domains that had been expired for more than two years. Each regency's communications office now handles them under the new setup.
A pokdarwis is a community group, so it can use .or.id with a deed or a letter that confirms the group. A BUM Desa, as a business entity, uses .co.id. Both rules come from the registration policy of PANDI, the body that runs the .id registry. Under Government Regulation 11/2021, a BUM Desa becomes a legal entity once its electronic registration certificate is issued. Anyone can check that status on the Village Ministry's BUM Desa dashboard, and the website links to it from the page about the managing body.
Village funds and procurement: a written offer for the procurement team
Permendes PDT 16/2025 is the Village Ministry regulation on how the 2026 Village Fund should be spent. The Village Fund (Dana Desa) is money each village receives from the central government. The 2026 priorities include digital infrastructure and the development of village potential, and the annex says village websites should preferably use desa.id. Spending still has to pass the village deliberation meeting (musyawarah desa) and appear in the village budget (APB Desa). The regulation is about the village website, so a pokdarwis or BUM Desa website cannot assume the same funding route.
LKPP Regulation 12/2019 on village procurement puts self-managed work (swakelola) first. A village turns to a provider only for work it cannot do itself. That provider may be a business entity or an individual. Under the request-for-quotation method, the activity management team asks at least two providers for written quotations. The value limits come from a rule issued by the local regent or mayor.
I work as an individual. I can prepare a written offer that sets out the scope of work, the schedule, and the cost of each stage. I am not a village facilitator (pendamping desa) or a village finance consultant, so budget decisions and procedures stay with the village government and the village meeting.
What visitors look for before they set off
Family visitors usually want a handful of answers. How much is a ticket, what time does it open, how do we get there, and what can we do once we arrive? The tourism village websites I build answer all of that on the home page. Each answer then gets its own page with the detail.
- Tickets split into adult, child, student, group, and extra rides. Notes on entertainment tax or local levies are written plainly, because Law 1/2022 puts water rides, agritourism, and fishing spots under the entertainment services tax. Regional regulations set the rate.
- Weekday and weekend hours, plus special hours for the Lebaran (Eid al-Fitr) holiday, which is usually the busiest stretch of the year.
- A map with parking spots, whether a tour bus can get in, and the state of the road to the site.
- The activities and packages on offer, such as a village walk, a batik class, fruit picking, camping, or a yearly festival.
- Homestays in residents' houses, and village products that people can order on WhatsApp.
Law 18/2025, the third amendment to the Tourism Law, gives tourists a right to information on disaster mitigation and emergencies. It also gives them a right to facilities for people with disabilities, pregnant women, older people, and children. So the visitor page also lists evacuation routes where they exist, emergency numbers, and honest accessibility notes. A typical note says that a certain footpath cannot take a wheelchair yet.
Recreation parks, swimming pools, and pick-your-own farms
Privately run tourist businesses need much the same pages, with a few additions. A swimming pool needs its rules written before visitors arrive: which swimwear is allowed, how deep each pool is, and which children must come with an adult. A pick-your-own farm needs a harvest status that the managers update through the panel. Then nobody makes the trip while the fruit is still unripe.
The legal page can show the business identification number (NIB) and the business code from KBLI 2025, Indonesia's standard business classification. Examples are 93210 for amusement parks, 93296 for agritourism, and 55201 for homestays. A village that also sells full travel packages with transport needs a different licence. I cover that case in the tour operator website article, and the local tourism office is the best place to ask first.
School and office groups: WhatsApp and a form that asks only what it needs
Groups nearly always ask before they come. The WhatsApp button on the website opens a chat that already holds the date, the number of people, and the package they want. The group form asks only for the name of the person in charge, a WhatsApp number, the date, and the group size. It never asks for a photo of an ID card (KTP). Article 20(2) of Law 27/2022 allows data to be processed to meet the request of the person who sent it. Data the village does not need is better left uncollected.
Village products are ordered the same way. An online shop with a cart only pays off once at least one person is dedicated to handling orders and chat can no longer keep up. It costs far more to build, so the village should not rush into it. I weigh the options in the article on catalogue stores with WhatsApp ordering.
Jadesta, tourism village awards, and Google Maps
The village profile on Jadesta still needs to be filled in, and the website links to it. The digital criteria for ADWI 2024 mention managing a website and social media, along with accurate, good-quality information about the village. The 2026 edition runs as the tourism village category of the Wonderful Indonesia Awards, and the digital side is still judged. A tidy website helps a village meet those criteria. Winning is another matter, and I promise nothing there.
On Google Business Profile, a village can fill in regular hours and special holiday hours, attributes such as wheelchair access, and event posts for festivals. The profile has no free link for selling tickets. So the link it does allow points to the ticket page on the website, and the details on both are kept identical.
I build each site to pass Core Web Vitals, since visitors often open it on a phone on the road with a weak signal. The site you are reading follows the same approach, and on 12 October 2026 its Lighthouse mobile score was 94. The content is also arranged so Google can find it and AI answers such as AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity can quote it.
Who looks after the website when the programme ends?
Many village websites are made during a university community service programme or a training scheme. When the programme ends, the site is left alone. Nobody renews the domain. The password sits in a student's email or a former committee member's inbox, and no one knows how to change the ticket price.
The websites I build are handed over with accounts in the owner's name and a simple panel for tickets, hours, and activities. The next committee receives a written guide. The domain renewal date is recorded in the handover document. If management later moves to someone else, my access can be revoked and the website carries on.
Tracking, only if the village advertises
If the village or the operator advertises on Google or Meta, the website can count taps on the WhatsApp button and group forms sent. The tags come from the managers' own ad account, and they switch on only after the visitor agrees. When there are no ads, there is no tracker.
Security, and a free 3 month malware cleanup
Intruders can use a hacked village website to show online gambling pages or spam under the village's name. That damages visitors' trust and the village government's reputation in one blow. The websites I build are secured to the standard of this site. On 12 October 2026 it earned an A+ on securityheaders.com and on Mozilla HTTP Observatory, and your committee can check its own site with those two tools. I keep the protective measures off public pages, so intruders get no map to follow.
Should malware hit the website within 3 months of launch, the cleanup is free. That period is written on the proof of payment, and other packages give 1 to 6 months. I remove the malicious code, restore the files from a backup, and close the gap in the website I delivered. The guarantee is a cleanup service, not compensation for losses.
After that period, a cleanup becomes a separate job, and a severe case can cost tens of millions of rupiah. The guarantee does not cover shared passwords or a committee member's infected device. It also leaves out changes made by others, outages at the server or domain provider, and components that age once the guarantee lapses without renewal. For a village committee, the terms page lists each of these limits in full. Cleaning malware out of websites is part of my regular work, and that is why I can offer this guarantee.
Cost: paid once, with light yearly costs
A tourism village website is paid for once, in stages. The written breakdown can go straight into the procurement file. The recurring cost is the domain, plus a server if you choose one, and a site like this rarely needs a monthly server. For desa.id, the renewal fee follows Komdigi's rules.
Support after handover is optional. When the committee wants it, it covers fixes, updates to website components, and limited help. Later the village may want an English version for foreign visitors, a page for each homestay, or a bigger product catalogue. I build those additions at a special rate, lighter than a new project.
Ready to use and in the owner's name; source code if needed
The owner receives a ready-to-use website. That means the built files running on its own domain, the domain and accounts in its name, a panel for editing content, and a handover document. The site can move to another hosting provider, including one chosen by the regency's communications office.
The source code, the project files used to rebuild the website from scratch, is not in the default package. For a village, leaving it out keeps the price down. Tickets, hours, and activities still change through the panel, and my support covers the version I handed over. The code earns its cost when the regency has its own developer team or its procurement rules demand it. It carries a separate and much higher price, and it may be unavailable when the site relies on licensed components.
The village's choice: AI on your own, an unclear agency, a free template, or an engineer?
| Consideration | Building it yourself with AI | An agency with no clear accountability | A free hosting template | Built by an engineer (this service) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domain | A free or random domain | Often in the agency's name | The provider's subdomain | desa.id, .or.id, or .co.id in the owner's name |
| Tickets and hours | Often out of date | Depends | Typed once, rarely changed | By category, with holiday hours, edited through the panel |
| After handover | No guide | Gone once paid | Depends on the host | Institutional accounts, a guide for new committee members |
| Village procurement | No documents | Depends | None | A written offer in stages |
| Security | Nobody watches it | Untested | Updated along with thousands of sites | Tested with public tools, free 3 month cleanup |
| Yearly costs | Tool subscriptions | A monthly retainer | Free until you need a feature | The domain, plus a server if chosen |
AI can make a beautiful village page in an hour. If it invents the ticket prices, opening hours, and emergency numbers, though, a school group may arrive on a day the site is closed. I described that kind of mistake in the case of an online store built entirely by AI. An agency with no clear accountability sometimes registers the domain in its own name, and the village loses its address when the contract ends. A free template is fine for one page. It is rarely designed to hold tickets by category, homestays, and village products together.
Who is behind this tourism village website design service?
I run this tourism village website design service on my own. I am Dicky Ibrohim, website engineer and technical lead, and my work history is on the about page. Day to day I build websites and applications, repair broken ones, and clean up those hit by malware, and I have handled thousands of cases. AI helps with the repetitive parts. I test the final result myself, down to pressing the group WhatsApp button on a phone.
I am not a village facilitator, a tourism consultant, or a licensing consultant. Ticket prices, hours, the legal status of the managing body, and safety details come from the managers. The material I supply is licensed, while the village vouches for the photos and text it provides.
Process: from the village meeting to launch
- Tell me about your village or tourist site through the form on the homepage: who runs it, the main attraction, and whether there are homestays or village products.
- A written offer for the village lands within one or two business days. It lists the pages, the schedule, the cost per stage, server needs, the malware guarantee period, and what support covers.
- A short interview with the committee about tickets, hours, activities, and the questions visitors ask most.
- Text and design: I prepare both, then the committee checks them, ticket prices and emergency details above all.
- Phone testing, including on a slow connection, until the WhatsApp button and the group form work every time.
- Launch, after which I hand over access, the ownership documents, and the committee guide.
What the managers need to prepare
- The name of the managing body, the tourism village decree if there is one, and its legal status.
- Ticket prices by category, opening hours, and the holiday schedule.
- A list of activities, packages, homestays, and village products.
- The managers' WhatsApp number, emergency numbers, and the location pin on the map.
- Photos the village owns, and the link to its Jadesta profile if it has one.
Eight questions before choosing someone to build your tourism village website
- In whose name is the domain registered? (The managing body's, matching its type.)
- Can the committee change ticket prices without help? (Yes, through the panel.)
- Is there a written offer for procurement? (Yes, broken into stages.)
- What happens when the committee changes? (The accounts and the guide pass to the new committee.)
- Does the form ask for an ID card photo? (No.)
- What if malware gets in? (Free cleanup within 3 months of launch, as written on the proof of payment.)
- Which costs recur? (Domain renewal, plus a server if you choose one.)
- Can an English version come later? (Yes, at a special rate.)
First step: tell me about your village
Visitors choose the tourism village with clear tickets, reliable hours, and directions that are easy to follow. This tourism village website design service builds a site that holds all three. It is registered to the owner and stays looked after when the committee changes.
Tell me about your village or tourist site through the form on the homepage, or write to hello@dickyibrohim.com. I will reply with a proposed set of pages, a cost breakdown per stage, and an estimated launch date.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a tourism village website cost?
The build is paid once, in stages, with a written breakdown that can be attached to procurement documents. The only recurring cost is the domain, plus a server if you choose one. The figure depends on the number of pages, homestays, and village products; I send it after you fill in the form on the homepage.
Can the Village Fund (Dana Desa) pay for a website?
Permendes PDT 16/2025 includes digital infrastructure and mentions village websites on a desa.id domain. Spending still has to pass the village deliberation meeting (musyawarah desa) and the village budget (APB Desa). The rule covers the village government's website; it does not automatically cover a website for a pokdarwis or a BUM Desa.
How does a village get a desa.id domain?
The domain name officer at the regency or city government applies through Komdigi's domain service, with a letter of authorisation from the village head. The first year is free, and after that the domain has to be renewed every year.
Can a pokdarwis use a desa.id domain?
The desa.id domain is reserved for village governments. A pokdarwis, as a community organisation, can use .or.id, while a BUM Desa uses .co.id.
What is the difference between a village website and a tourism village website?
A village website serves residents: administrative services, the budget, and village news. A tourism village website serves visitors: tickets, hours, maps, activities, and homestays. The two can link to each other.
What should a good tourism village website contain?
Tickets by category, regular and holiday hours, a map, activities and packages, homestays, village products, emergency information, accessibility notes, the managing body, and a WhatsApp contact for groups.
Can an individual provider build a village website?
LKPP Regulation 12/2019 says a provider in village procurement may be a business entity or an individual. The procedure and the value limits follow the local regent's or mayor's regulation.
How do we take group bookings through the website?
Through a WhatsApp button that fills in the date, the number of people, and the package, or a short form that asks only for the name of the person in charge, a WhatsApp number, the date, and the group size.
Does the village receive the source code?
The village receives a ready-to-use website on the institution's domain, with a panel and a guide for the committee, and it can move to any hosting. The source code is a separate option that costs more and is not always available; its status is written in the offer.
What if the tourism village website gets malware?
For 3 months after launch, as written on the proof of payment, the cleanup is free; other packages give 1 to 6 months. It is a cleanup service, not compensation; the details are on the terms page.
