The Empowerment of Setabelan Tourist Village Based on Culture and Locality

摘要

Tourism sector has grown into superior sector with rapidest growth in the world and been a locomotive of economic growth. Kelurahan Setabelan of Surakarta City is attempting to develop culture- and locality-based tourist village. Using action research method and John Friedman's community empowerment theory, this research aimed to describe the process of empowering the villagers conducted in participative manner and involving stakeholders. The result of discussion showed that community empowerment process was conducted through the production of citizen's knowledge on village's history, potency, need, and problem. The result of knowledge production was used as the data to design workshop for citizens through Focus Group Discussion (FGD) mechanism. Workshop series has been implemented because the community interested in packaging the village's cultural potency as tourist attraction. The citizen's culture potency is packaged in the form of village profile book, village diary, documentary video, village sketch, Open Street Map (OSM) and infographic published through website and social media that are accessible widely. Thus, empowering the village through the potency it has in cultural context will give shape to knowledge, belief, understanding, and custom and habit or ethic guiding human behaviour in living within his community.