The Utilization of Local Wisdom of the Pusuk Buhit Community, Sianjur Mula-Mula District, in Tourism Development in Samosir Regency, North Sumatera Province

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10.2991/assehr.k.220204.041How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Pusuk Buhit area; local wisdom; Lake Toba tourism

Abstract

The Lake Toba area, which is one of the priority tourist destinations in Indonesia, has a variety of local wisdom that can be used for tourism development. This study analyzes what local wisdom in Pusuk Buhit is still guided by and which has been lost in today’s daily life. Next, we will analyze the reasons behind the low tourist visits to Pusuk Buhit, Samosir Regency, which has an extraordinary natural and cultural heritage base. The research was conducted with a qualitative descriptive method. Data was collected using in-depth interviews, combined with field observations and FGDs with several key informants, namely community leaders, several NGOs. The results showed that some of the local wisdom found in Pusuk Buhit, Samosir Regency is still used as a way of life, but some of it is no longer used as a way of life. Most of the tourists who visit the local wisdom location in the area of Pusuk Buhit, Sianjur Mula-Mula Sub-district, do religious tour; they come to perform their pilgrimage to the local wisdom location. Stories about the local wisdom are not uniform, and they are usually interpreted by the speakers differently, based on their own religion. The reasons of tourists are reluctant to visit the local wisdom location is because of lack of transportation to the location, the location is far from the hotels where the tourists stay, there is no inn or motel in the local wisdom location, tourists need extra energy to reach the area of Pusuk Buhit, lack of information about the existence of the local wisdom, lack of service in the local wisdom location, lack of facility for the tourists to relax, lack of toilets/bath rooms, lack of restaurants or food stands, and sanitation and hygienic condition in the local wisdom location are very bad.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - R. Hamdani Harahap
AU  - Yeni Absah
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/02/15
TI  - The Utilization of Local Wisdom of the Pusuk Buhit Community, Sianjur Mula-Mula District, in Tourism Development in Samosir Regency, North Sumatera Province
BT  - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Public Policy, Social Computing and Development (ICOPOSDEV 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 265
EP  - 275
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220204.041
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220204.041
ID  - Harahap2022
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