GROWING PRIDE OF RURAL COMMUNITY THROUGH

TOURISMA Story of the Community

Development in Merapi Sleman Yogyakarta

Doto Yogantoro (Dewi Peri Management)dotoyogantoro@ymail.com

Destha Titi Raharjana ( Center for Tourism UGM) desthapuspar@ugm.ac.id

1. Situation 2. Process of Problem

Identification 3. Partnerships4. RCE communication with

community 5. RCE communication with

higher education institutions

Pentingsari village, Umbulharjo Cangkringan Sub-district, Sleman, is located in the altitude around 600 mdpal. The distance is 12.5 km from the peak of Merapi Mount. It is about 22.5 km from central city of Yogyakarta.

The village is situated in between two rivers which disgorge from Merapi Mount; Kuning river and Pawon river. This location is in vulnerable area 1 threatened by cold lava from Merapi Mount.

Generally, the environment condition is still fresh. There are 125 family heads living in that village which is in the area 103 ha. They live as a farmer, labour, and officer. In daily life, they spend their time by working in agriculture, plantation, fishery, and farm.

Until 1990’s, Pentingsari was included to a small village with limited access so that it was determined as one of poor village in Merapi slope, Sleman regency.

Therefore, the community took an action. They changed and managed their potenties to be more useful. They have worked by having mutual cooperation. Together with the communities, they manage the potency to be useful for the others.

SITUATION

PROCESS OF PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION By mutual cooperation, the community conducts problem identification based on the provided potencies as well as analyzes the neighbor villages. In early 2008, it was commited that there will be an effort expected to answer the social-economy problem in the community, which is pioneering cultural village

Undeveloped village

The growth of awareness toward the use of local potencies development

An attempt to develop capacity and service

for tourism

Awareness and spirit growth toward local potencies process as the tourism commodity along trend of travelling to village. Tourism villages as alternative tourism.

There is belief in changing village situation from ordinary to remarkable. Developing tourism: from, by, and for community.

The village communities aware of the lack to conduct the change and the development required to involve related partners: University and Government.

Creating a trend of travelling to village to learn and have recreation

Accepting tourists who travel from Merapi Mount

People are interested to have a camp or hold event in outside

Support from Tourism Office and Directorate General of Higher Education

Human resource in tourism Facilities are not available No skill to manage attraction No art products

Community willingness to change and move forward.

The location is nearby Merapi Mount

The natural potency which can be managed

The cultural village atmosphere

Local wisdom in environment There are wide spaces can be

used.

SWOT Analysis STRENGTH

WEAKNESS

OPPORTUNITY THREAT

Natural disaster of Merapi Market saturation Competicy with the same

tourism villages Ecosystem destroys

PARTNERSHIPS

RCE COMMUNICATION WITH COMMUNITY

Regarding the village development though tourism sector, local communities try to build communication with Higher Education.

a. Potency identificationb. Planning compilationc. Conducting action/ sampling d. Giving Intervantion programe. Evaluationf. Revising and Developing

Higher Edcuation, UGM conducts intervention in Student Community Services Progrsm in Pentingsari village in 2009, 2010, 2011. Besides, a research from Center for Tourism

Studies UGM is about eco-tourism model in vulnerable area. Location is in Pentingsari village

Thorugh Action Research supported by partcipative approach, Higher Education along with community conduct

Community Based Tourism

Approach of Community Based Tourism development is as a tool to make local communities as the subject of development

Local tourism development involves local community initiative and ability in engaging with the other potential partners

• Community conducts the management• Community initiates partnership• Community conducts program• Community evaluates the program• Community distributes the profit

RCE COMMUNICATION WITH HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Regarding the community capacity development in tourism particularly and environment conservation generally in Merapi slope, a lot of potential partners are involves:

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