In a country with abundant natural resources and sites such as Indonesia, tourism played a key role for its growth and development. Some regions highly depend on tourism as its growth driver. However, maintaining the area in an excellent condition with intrusion from visitors require a binding regulation and constant supervision. There are several cases where natural sites are damaged due to lack of supervision and regulation. Not only it would damage the sites, the one who would be strongly impacted are local residents, especially for natural sites that are frequently visited by tourists. If they rely on tourism, they would lose their earnings, thus affect their economic and social condition. Keeping this in mind, those who would be greatly affected by its damage should have known and cared about the importance of protecting the environment. In line with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) number 8 for decent work and economic growth, in this case it is related to SDGs related to responsible consumption & production and climate action, which led to sustainable communities. Using National Social-Economic Survey 2017 data and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression, we tested whether those who live close to natural sites or in a natural site area have higher environmental awareness than others who does not. The result suggested that both their perspective and behavior regarding environmental awareness are influenced by the existence of natural sites in their environment. Interesting findings include difference in urban-rural behavior and perspective, whereas urban residents have better understanding and perspective on environmental awareness, but rural residents showed better behavior on environmental awareness. Communities and government should work hand-in-hand to communicate their perspective to stakeholders and enforced desired behavior in order to maintain sustainability.