| Fullname | : | Prof. Dr. Martinus Yuwana Marjuka |
| : | yuwana.marjuka@unpar.ac.id | |
| Functional Position | : | Professor |
| Structural Function | : | – |
Education
| Doctoral | : | Natural Resources and Environment Economics Bogor Agriculture Institute, Indonesia |
| Master | : | Development Studies Bogor Agriculture Institute, Indonesia |
| Bachelor | : | Social Philosophy IKIP Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia |
Profil
Prof. Dr. Martinus Yuwana Marjuka is a Professor in Economics and Tourism Industry. He earned his Master’s degree in Development Studies and Doctorate in Natural Resource and Environmental Management from Bogor Agricultural University (Institut Pertanian Bogor). His expertise lies in tourism studies, further strengthened through various international programs, including Tourism Planning at the University of Waterloo, Canada (1994); Tourism Behaviour & Marketing at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA (2004); Travel and Transportation Management at Waiariki Institute of Technology, New Zealand (2005); Public Policy in Tourism at Hebei University, China (2006); Hospitality Management in Geneva, Switzerland (2007); and Education and Hospitality at Hong Kong Polytechnic (2020).
Beyond his academic career, Prof. Yuwana has been actively engaged as a practitioner. From 2010 to 2023, he served at the Directorate General of Tourism Destination and Infrastructure Development, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy. He was also entrusted as the Coordinator of Indonesia’s Creative Cities nomination to UNESCO (2013–2015) for several cities, including Pekalongan, Denpasar, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Bukittinggi, and Sawahlunto. Between 2016 and 2019, he led the Development Team for Heritage Tourism Standardization, and from 2020 to 2021, he served as team leader in the performance evaluation of six state Tourism Polytechnics under the Ministry of Tourism.
With his extensive academic and professional track record, Prof. Yuwana is recognized as a figure who bridges scholarship and practice in the tourism sector, while playing an active role in advancing destination development and sustainable tourism policies in Indonesia.
Courses
- Tourism Economics
- Creative Economics
- Public Economics
- Microfinance in Tourism Destination Development
- Selected Topics in Eco-Tourism
Research Interest
- Natural Resource and Environmental Economics (renewable energy/RE, circular economy, green and blue economics)
- Sustainable Tourism Economics (eco-tourism, regenerative tourism, sustainable tourism, the impact of climate change on tourism supply and demand, SDGs and COP tourism issues)
- Creative Economy (downstreaming and supply chain optimization to enhance the value of cultural industries, MICE industry, etc.)
- Public Economics (village funds and community-based tourism (CBT), fiscal decentralization and centralization, regional autonomy and GDP, transaction costs, fiscal space, and flypaper effects)




