Dieng Culture Festival and its Culture Conservation Dilemma

DOI

10.2991/ictgtd-16.2017.40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Culture preservation, culture festival, community-based tourism

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate community-based tourism activities, the Dieng Culture Festival (DCF). The methods used is descriptive qualitative in case study and utilize the concept of cultural and tourism event for analysis. The results will be used as improvement for tourism activities planning in general. The DCF is an event designed for Dieng local society for "Ngruwat Gimbal" ceremony, a Central Javanese tradition that exists in the Dieng Kulon village of Batur, Banjarnegara. It has brought many visitors and multiplied local economic growth as well as community based tourism activities. Beside its success, DCF also has problems. Among of the problems are: 1) "Ngruwat Gimbal's ceremony as the main program on DCF event, by cutting the dreadlock from the Dieng Kulon kid's hair, has excluded the locals from participating in the ceremony, and served mostly for outsider, the non-local and foreign tourists. 2) The insertion of the "jazz diatas awan" in a local culture festival by some people, is considered not appropriate.The discussions result suggested that the DCF event needs to be more environmentally friendly, consider more on the preservation of the local culture, and involve all local people to participate in the event.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Agung Setiawan
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TI  - Dieng Culture Festival and its Culture Conservation Dilemma
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Tourism, Gastronomy, and Tourist Destination (ICTGTD 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 211
SN  - 2352-5428
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DO  - 10.2991/ictgtd-16.2017.40
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