The Revitalization of Sangiran World Heritage Area Through the
Special Interest Tourism Development Based on Local People
Warto Warto, Tundjung Wahadi Sutirto and Rara Sugiyarti
Faculty of Cultural Science of Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta, Indonesia
Keywords: Sangiran Site, Tourism.
Abstract: The Sangiran area World Heritage is a famous archaeological site worldwide. Sangiran site has important
significance for the development of Indonesia's history and culture from the earliest times. However,
Sangiran site has not been used optimally for historical learning activities, research, and tourism. The
advantages of Sangiran have not contributed significantly to the welfare of the people living around.
Consequently, illegally fossil taking and trading are common in Sangiran. This study examines the
revitalization efforts of Sangiran site through the tourism development based on local people. By using
participant observation and in-depth interview as well as focus group discussion (FGD), this research found
several things: first, Sangiran area has a uniqueness that can be developed into the attraction of special
interest tourism. Second, the development of ancient tour in Sangiran is still fully managed by the local
government, so it has not involved many local people yet. This is related to the status of Sangiran as a
protected area so that the people cannot freely develop the tourism. Nevertheless, the people continue to be
enhanced their role gradually in revitalizing Sangiran site through the tourism activities.
1 INTRODUCTION
Tourism has become an important sector in the
effort to preserve the nation's historical and cultural
heritage, and it is expected to contribute positively to
the improvement of the people's welfare. Through
well-planned tourism activities, the opportunities
and job vacancies are increasingly opened to the
people who are able to increase revenue. In the
national development paradigm, the development of
tourism is not only directed to achieve a certain
growth (pro-growth) and pay attention to
environmental preservation (pro-environment), but it
is also directed to stand for the poor (pro-poor) so
that they are able to gain new job opportunities (pro
job) in order to improve the living standard. In such
a context, the tourism sector should be developed in
accordance with its potentials and resources. One of
the important components of tourism that need to be
developed is tourist attractions offered to tourists.
Sangiran has been recognized as a world heritage
which has great potential to be a superior tourist
attraction in Central Java in particular and in
Indonesia in general. On the other hand, the
uniqueness and authenticity of the attractions owned
by Sangiran become a strong attraction for tourists.
In addition, there is a change in the interest of global
tourists who tend to look for unique and authentic
things to be the target of the visit. This change of
interest was caused by an awareness of how
important it is to preserve the environment which
has quality decrease. Going back to nature has
become a new spirit which inspires and gives
direction for the world of tourism, both for visitors
and managers of tourist attractions. Regarding this,
Sangiran becomes one of the archaeological sites
which offer various uniquenesses. The problem is
how to synergize among the interests of local
people, government, and the entrepreneur with the
tourists' interests in developing the area of Sangiran
as a tourist attraction or special interest attraction.
Sangiran has been facing several challenges in
realizing its existence as a world recognized of the
archaeological site. There has been fossil stealing
and trading through the black market which involves
foreigners and local residents. In addition, Sangiran
site which is located in the midst of residential and
agricultural land often raises tension in the
control/land use between the people and the agency
management of ancient human sites (BPSMP) of
Sangiran. As a result, the high valued of Sangiran
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site has not been able to provide the maximum
benefit for the local people.
Relating to the problems especially in preserving
Sangiran site to remain sustainable and free from the
threat of damage, it is needed to conduct
revitalization in sustainable manner. This can be
done through empowerment and people's
participation so that they are directly involved in the
management of Sangiran site. Through tourism
special interest activities, for example, there are
opportunities for local people to develop various
types of tourist attractions which depend on the
potential and the richness of local culture. Sangiran
site does not only offer tourist attraction in the form
of unliving ancient objects (death-monument), but it
also offers other living-culture attractions. Thus, the
revitalization of Sangiran area is not only limited to
the cultural artifacts in the form of fossils, but also to
the potential of local people who live in the middle
of Sangiran site area. This is in line with the
UNESCO's monitoring record in 2008: "The value
of inherent cultural heritage in Sangiran is increasing
when it also involves and considers the traditional
character underlying the present village on this site,
which consists of the traditional architecture of
bamboo and wooden houses, the lifestyle of rural
people, and people's crafts practiced in local
communities today. This excellence can raise the
value of cultural heritage which will provide its own
strategic value in the context of conservation and
development of the site in the future" (Soekronedi
and Haryono, 2015).
Revitalization is part of conservation efforts of
cultural products. The conservation concept includes
four main components, namely preservation,
restoration/rehabilitation, reconstruction, and
revitalization. Revitalization is an effort to change a
cultural result adapted to the development of people
and have a new function without removing the
cultural artifacts. The revitalization of Sangiran site
is intended to explore and give new meaning to the
site without changing the substance and shape.
Sangiran site formerly only served as an assessment
place of paleontology experts in tracing the
evolution of life living creatures millions of years
ago, but its function was adapted to the changing
times, for example, it is used as a source of historical
learning and cultural attractions. Revitalizing
cultural heritage contains elements of maintaining,
defending, preserving and developing. However,
maintaining and preserving do not need to make
cultural heritage as a dead thing. Defending a
cultural heritage means holding the context in which
the culture was born and developed. Revitalization
means making the cultural heritage survives and
thrives in the context of its people.
One of the ways to empower or revitalize the
cultural heritage objects is giving a new meaning to
the relics in the context of the times. Besides, in line
with the development of tourism industry, the
cultural heritage can be used as an interesting tourist
attraction. One of the interesting attractions is a
cultural tourism attraction that specifically offers
uniqueness. Cultural tourism is a kind of special
interest tourism where tourists do tourism activities
because of a special motivation to visit a place that
has a unique culture such as the living way of
people, daily life, customs, traditional ceremonies,
buildings/architecture, music, and dance, performing
arts, crafts arts and so on (Soekadijo, 1997). Tourists
often travel to enrich their knowledge, gain
experience, and expand their association with other
nations. So, they travel based on cultural motifs.
The same thing is stated by Kruja and Gjyrezi
(2011): "…special interest tourists enjoy activities in
contact with nature, beauty of a conserved natural
area, the pleasure of watching the fauna in its natural
habitat, of exploring, dis¬covering and learning,
overcoming obstacles and feeling the pleasure of
overcoming them… Above all, there is the pleasure
of sharing experiences with friends and relatives".
Furthermore, it is stated that special interest tourisms
include adventure tourism, rural tourism, cultural
tourism, religious tourism, ecotourism, culinary tour,
heritage tourism, health tourism, nature reserve
tours, etc. It can be stated briefly that special interest
tourism is part of tourism activities that aims to
satisfy individual or group specific desires or needs.
The special interest tourism emphasizes four major
experiences, namely rewarding, enriching,
adventuresome experiences, and learning
experiences. Clients engaged with special interest
tourism (SIT) are seeking to learn more, enrich their
awareness, and express themselves. They expect
high standards of service and individualized focus.
Many wishes to travel in an environmentally sound
manner and to have authentic experiences be they:
cultural, social or environmental, in which they have
a positive engagement with the host community.
Special interest tourism is often associated with
the concept of alternative tourism. Alternative
tourism is a new kind of tourism that emphasizes the
aspects of conservation and environmental
sustainability, both natural and cultural. The
development of alternative tourism is a reaction to
the tendency of conventional tourism trends that pay
less attention or even exploit the environment of
tourist destinations. Then it appeared new kinds of
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tourism such as for as green tourism, cultural
tourism, rural tourism, ethnic tourism, ecotourism,
etc., which emphasizes on the authenticity and
originality of the tourist destinations (Nasikun, 1995;
Picard, 1996). In its development, alternative
tourism is more emphasized or oriented to the
participation of local community (Community Based
Tourism/CBT). So, CBT firstly aimed to preserve
the natural and cultural environment by actively
involving local people (Dengnoy, 2003; Giampiccoli
and Kalis, 2012; Lopez-Gusman et al., 2011). The
environmental degradation occurred around the
object of tourism, for example, because the local
people were less involved in the tourism
management. The changing of tourism tendency
towards tourism based on nature and culture
underlies the development of CBT (Mallet, 2003;
Zhahmirzadi, 2012; Goodwin and Santili, 2009;
Asker et al., 2010).
The development of environmental tourism is
increasingly accepted by the people worldwide. It
happened because the behavior and interest of the
world tourists shifted in looking at tourism as a
social, economical, and cultural activity. They do
not longer perceive a place/area and local people as
an object that can be enjoyed for a moment and
brought economic benefits, but as a tourism resource
that must be preserved and conserved together in
order to be enjoyed by future generations. Therefore,
the development of tourism should be designed by
involving the people (Bramwell and Lane, 1993;
Okech et al., 2012; Avcikurt et al., 2015) on the one
hand, and paying attention to the changes in the
interests of world tourist (Nasikun, 1995; Fandeli,
1999). The revitalization of ancient sites became an
alternative tourist attraction which is based on local
people and environmentally friendly is a very
relevant step. It does not only involve the provision
of tourist attractions derived from an authentic and
unique cultural heritage (Boniface and Fowler, 1993;
Dragulanescu and Drutu, 2012; Gartner, 2005), but
it also provides the possibility of preserving cultural
richness through the tourism activities by actively
involving the local people.
As stated by Lacmanović and Iva Bulatović, the
research themes of tourism based on people have
been largely undertaken and generally told about
"…Involvement of local communities in the
decision-making about sustainable development of
community-based tourism by reducing the negative
and increasing the positive effects as evidenced by
the level of participation and the distribution of
decision-power". Further, it was disclosed that, "...
The relationship between the local community and
tourism sector is an important issue in the marketing
management of tourist destinations in theoretical and
practical terms. It is especially important to consider
specific issues relating to sustainable tourism
marketing processes and the participation of local
people in the process" (Lacmanovic & Bulatovic,
2014).
This paper specifically discusses the
revitalization model of Sangiran archaeological site
through the development of tourism based on local
people. The description is begun by giving a general
description of the potential of Sangiran site as a
world heritage which has an important significance
for the research and the development of science.
Furthermore, it discusses the attractions of special
interest that can be offered to tourists, both in the
form of attractions related to the collection of fossils
from the pre-literacy era and the classification of
Sangiran area which was divided into clusters,
formations and land coatings as well as the fossil
type found. Then, it was discussed about the people's
participation in the revitalization of Sangiran site
through the management of tourism in Sangiran, and
the description was ended with a conclusion.
2 METHODS
This qualitative research emphasizes on the
revitalization of Sangiran archaeological sites
through the development of special interest tourism
based on people. As stated by Denzin and Lincoln
(2009), qualitative research emphasizes on the
unobserved process and meaning in terms of
quantity, intensity, and frequency. This research
emphasizes the nature of reality that is socially
constructed, the close relationship between the
researcher and the subject studied, and the pressure
of the situation that forms the research. The priority
is to seek the answers to the questions that
highlighted the way in which social experience
appears as well as the acquisition of its meaning
(Denzin and Lincoln, 2009).
In this research, the data were obtained through
in-depth interviews, direct observation, and
document studies. In-depth interviews were
conducted with a number of informants which were
selected randomly (purposive sampling) according
to the problem under study. In addition, focus group
discussion (FGD) methods were used to explore the
opinions of many people about certain issues related
to the development of Sangiran site as a special
interest tourism attraction. The direct observation of
the Sangiran area site was done to obtain some data
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about tourist attractions offered in Sangiran and the
activities of tourists who are observing, enjoying,
and collecting new knowledge and experience in the
places visited. The observations were also conducted
to watch the activities of local people involved in
tourism activities in Sangiran area. Other data were
obtained from written documents and artefacts
especially the remained fossils of pre-historical life
presented at the Sangiran Museum. The data validity
was done by data triangulation and experts' review.
The interview data from some informants were
compared each other or also compared to the
observation data and documents. The data was then
analyzed by interactive model starting from data
collection, data reduction, data presentation, and
conclusion drawing/verification. This step was done
cyclically to get the answers that match to the
research question.
3 RESULT AND DISCUSSION
3.1 Sangiran as a tourist attraction
Sangiran has been recognized as a world heritage
and has been widely known by the public, but has
not been successfully developed into a major tourist
destination. The number of visitors at the main
museum Sangiran, for example, both domestic and
foreign in 2013 and 2014 respectively recorded
245,180 and 294,470. Domestic tourists consist of
students, collage students, the general public, and
from government agencies (BPSMP Sangiran).
Student visits to Sangiran are usually associated with
certain subject assignments, such as history or Social
science. However, the visit is also a collective
activity managed by the school to conduct a study
tour to various tourist attractions. Meanwhile, the
general public of various social classes and ages
visit the Sangiran museum for recreation and adds to
the experience. They are generally concentrated in
the Sangiran museum which presents various fossils
of ancient life. They rarely visit other cluster
museums, because Krikilan cluster (main museum)
is the first popular and known to the wider
community.
Sangiran Site is the largest archaeological site in
Indonesia. In the conservation area is stored not only
cultural artefacts relics millions of years ago, but
also a living or living culture that became an integral
part of Sangiran site. The location of sites that are in
the middle or together with the population shows
that between the artefacts that are death-monument
and live-monument coexist. Therefore, developing
the Sangiran area into a tourist attraction must take
into account the two potentials. Sangiran not only
offers traces of historical relics of civilization of the
past, but also offers a culture that is still actual life in
the midst of Sangiran society. In addition, in the
region of Sangiran not only stands indoor museum
just like the main museum cluster Krikilan and other
clusters, but also presented with very complete an
outdoor museum or natural museum. Thus, it is how
to enjoy Sangiran site as a different tourist attraction
by enjoying other tourist attractions outside
Sangiran.
There are several special interest tour packages
offered to tourists to visit Sangiran. First, Explore
Sangiran Dome. This package can be done by
anyone, such as students, students collage, and the
general public from all major and age. The activities
are begun by visiting the museum Krikilan and see
the entire collection of fossils presented in the
museum through display and audio-visual. After
that, the visitors continue to explore other clusters
such as Ngebung, Basi and Dayu. This trip should
use the vehicle because it is located far apart. In
Dayu cluster, for example, visitors watch Sangrat
stratigraphy directly where the discovery of fossils
various types. The next session, visitors can enjoy
Sangiran site by hiking, which is around the site by
walking. This is because a lot of interesting sites and
not yet reached by the vehicle. For example, the
location of the discovery of Meganthropus, the mud
volcano site, the salt water site, the fossil discovery
site S.17, as well as the soil surface sites that contain
marine fossils. In addition, when there is a process
of excavation, tourists can see first-hand how the
archaeologists find fossils, or even they can directly
participate in doing fossil excavations.
Other special interest tourism activities are
related to education especially in introducing the
knowledge and skills of palaeontology to students.
The knowledge is excavation and how to care /
handle fossils with the correct standard. For the
younger generation, the activity is an activity that
can be a challenge and trigger the curiosity of the
younger generation of cultural artefacts, especially
fossils that has age years. For this purpose, camp
area should be provided that can be utilized by
visitors who are interested in deepening and practice
the science of palaeontology/ archaeology. This
activity requires an expert counsellor in order not to
cause negative impact, especially in treating the
fossils that very precious. Now, being developed
alternative attractions are monument sites and
stratigraphy locations (outcrop) of ancient land that
presents the attractions of the ancient land
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formations in Sangiran. However, some locations
are in the process of acquisition by BPSMP
Sangiran.
Other attractions that can be offered is touring
followed by the automotive club. Touring can take
advantage of the road in the area of the site that can
be skipped small / medium vehicle comfortably.
There is also important event calls Sangiran Festival,
which presents various cultural richness of local
people, ranging from folk art (Gejok Lesung music,
Sangir theatre, ancient dance), handicrafts, children's
clothing, traditional food, and other cultural
attractions that support the efforts of the preservation
of the site Sangiran as world heritage.
As well as special interest tours in general,
special interest attractions in the Sangiran area will
provide an authentic experience to every visitor. In
addition to enjoying the attractions that offers,
visitors gain new knowledge and experience about
archaeology, grow their appreciation and reward,
and ultimately want to participate in preserving and
looking after it. First, rewarding. By looking at the
collection of fossils at Sangiran Museum directly, as
a trail of millions life of years ago, tourists will grow
their appreciation and appreciation of the object/
attraction. They realize that Sangiran site has
significance for the Indonesian people in particular
and for humanity in general. The Sangiran site is not
only a cultural treasure of the nation that gives so
strong a hint about the history of the development of
pre-Indonesian civilization, and the place where
palaeontologists test and prove the evolutionary
theory of living beings that adapt to nature for
millions of years, but the Sangiran site and the
whole fossil which it conveys to human beings to its
origin. Second, enriching. Tourists gain new
knowledge and experience when looking directly
Sangiran site that no other in the world. Their
knowledge of ancient life grew larger and deeper
after seeing all traces of the past relic of human
fossils, flora, fauna, and other cultural artefacts. This
kind of knowledge is different from the knowledge
gained through reading books or other media whose
objects cannot be seen or touched directly. Their
experience is also enriched through direct interaction
with local people living in Sangiran area. They are
not only see the artefacts that have died (fossils), but
also can see the living culture of local communities.
Third, adventure some experiences. The
adventure experience offered through special interest
tours at Sangiran archaeological sites is visiting five
different clusters / museums that have different
characteristic. Visitors who have been only
concentrated in the museum cluster Krikilan (main
Museum) which presents a complete collection of all
the fossils findings in the region since the colonial
era until now. With the development of other
clusters, visitors are challenged to visit each of the
distant museums. They have to walk or ride a
motorcycle to get to every museum. Therefore, it is
not only kalster museum Krikilan, there are others
that Ngebung cluster museum, Bukuran, Dayu, and
Manyorejo. Museum Dayu administratively entered
the district of Karanganyar, while other clusters are
in the district of Sragen. Fourth, learning
experiences. Tourists learn a lot about pre-dawn life.
They learn about ancient human civilizations, their
physical characteristics, their way of life and their
means of support, in contrast to modern humans.
Visitors can also see animal fossils and ancient
plants, the Sangiran's physical environment on the
map of Java or Indonesia before and after the ice age
melts, and the various types of equipment used by
ancient survive. In addition, tourists can also learn
about the layers of soil in Sangiran that show the age
of fossils found in every layer of soil. In the layer of
Kalibeng found many fossils of marine animals,
layers Pucangan save fossils of animals living in
swamps and fossils pithecantropus erectus, in layers
Kabuh found ancient elephant fossils and other large
animals and ancient human fossils, whereas in
Notopura layer not found the remains life. The
process of excavation and the type of soil layer is the
attraction for tourists to learn about the ancient life
that has become extinct.
3.2 Community Participation
Local community is an important component that
cannot be separated in an effort to preserve and
maintain Sangiran site as a cultural heritage.
Therefore, in order to preserve and develop Sangiran
become a tourist attraction requires appreciation and
support of local communities in order to appreciate
the cultural richness is very high value. Cultural
artefacts owned by this Sangiran site, for example,
should be treated not just a dead item that has only
economic value that is easily traded, but as a cultural
richness in which it stores pedagogical values about
past civilizations. Thus, each person feels possessed
of the cultural richness, it becomes an integral part
of the journey of history.
Growing the attitude of owning and caring about
Sangiran site is not easy. When society is still faced
with the problem of basic needs that are difficult to
overcome, respect for the wealth of cultural heritage
is minimal. Especially if the cultural heritage has a
high economic value that can be the foundation of
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basic needs fulfilment. The occurrence of fossil theft
in Sangiran, for example, in fact in such a context,
although economic problems are not the only factor.
But in general it can be said, Sangiran fossil hunting
mode caused by poverty. Residents living on dry,
barren land can easily sell their fossil findings to
others who reward them adequately to fulfil their
needs. Residents living in the area of 59 square
kilometres of sites generally know exactly which
locations are potentially containing fossils. They
also know the general features of the land that are
thought to hold fossils or artefacts from the period of
1.5 million to 700,000 years ago.
The development of the Sangiran area as a tourist
attraction should remain based on the interests or
needs of the local community. In other words, the
development of a tourist area must be through a
participatory approach in which the community
actively participates in the planning, management,
and utilization processes of the results. Approach
from the top who tend to pay less attention to the
real needs of local communities is the time should be
coupled with the approach from the bottom of
listening to the aspirations of the community. Such
an approach, it can birth the type of tourism
activities that have a positive impact on improving
the quality of tourism objects and attractions and
will get public support. Win-win solution in means
of guaranteed community benefit from tourism
activities become the key word in effort to develop
community-based tourism.
The role of the Sangiran community has been
limited to activities related to the conservation of the
site, especially in the protection, preservation and
preservation of ancient fossils. Various educational
activities or socialization about Sangiran
archaeological sites and the significance of this site
as the nation's cultural heritage and the world in a
sustainable way has been done. Under the
supervision of Kemendikbud (Ministry of education
and culture), UNESCO, BPSMP Sangiran, local
government and village government, Sangiran
region revitalization has been done through a
conscious tourism group (Pokdarwis) and Sangiran
conservation group (Young Guardian Club). The
formation of Pokdarwis Wonderful Sangiran by the
community around Sangiran become supporters in
providing information related Sangiran through
guiding activities. Pokdarwis activities include
Sangiran socialization, increased knowledge and
skills in tourism such as Sapta Pesona (seven charm)
and scouting, souvenir making, and others. Through
these activities the public knowledge of the Sangiran
site continues to increase and ultimately can provide
the correct information to visitors who come.
Through the Information Corner (Poksi) local
residents who help the government provide
information about Sangiran properly and at the same
time can be a tour guide for visitors who come to
Sangiran. Meanwhile, the participation of youth /
students in the empowerment and Sangiran
preservation area is contained in Young Guardian
Club (YGC). YGC is a community consisting of
high school and junior high school students around
Sangiran who play an active role in Sangiran site
preservation. Beyond that, there is Rumah Baca
(reading house) Sangiran which provides learning
media about Sangiran for people living in this area.
This reading house was developed by Pokdarwis
Wonderful Sangiran as literate movement to the
community through education.
The involvement of residents in the conservation
and security of Sangiran site is accompanied by
community empowerment effort that is the effort to
build a strong social, cultural and economic
foundation for the people around the site through
activities that are carried out or associated with
archaeological activities. Community empowerment
begins with socialization activities on matters
relating to tourism. For example about the provision
of services are for visitors, cleanliness, hospitality,
and so forth. Then held skills training to create
souvenirs (nuances) archaeological nuances. With
the involvement of higher education institutions
such as UNS, ISI Surakarta, UGM, UNDIP, and
UNY, this training produces souvenirs that attract
tourists who come in Sangiran. Residents also open
restaurant, photography, transportation, lodging and
other tourist services that visitors need. The stronger
the social, cultural, and economic basis of the
population, the conservation of the Sangiran site
becomes easier. The case of theft and sale of fossils
is diminishing and the concern of the population of
the Sangiran site as socio-economic resources is
increasing.
Briefly it can be said, the revitalization of
Sangiran archaeological site is done by synergizing
the needs of local residents, Local Government,
Provincial Government, national and international
interests. Therefore, continuously enhanced
knowledge and public awareness is the importance
of Sangiran as world heritage. Sangiran is not just
where the blinds are found, the frightening giant
bones of what the locals once understood, but they
have important meanings for science and humanity.
These artefacts become socioeconomic resources
that can be empowered to improve welfare.
Therefore, the government in a planned and
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sustainable way makes socialization programs to
increase knowledge and awareness of the
community to maintain and preserve Sangiran. For
example, BPSMP Sangiran cooperates with various
universities to conduct research, journal writing,
scientific writing competition at high school level,
junior high school painting competition, art training
of Gejok Lesung traditional music, making souvenir
made from resin and waste wood, and partly. Thus
Sangiran revitalization indicates the involvement
and empowerment of local communities intensively
in order to obtain maximum results.
4 CONCLUSIONS
The revitalization of Sangiran archaeological area
through the development of special interest tourism
brings a good positive impact on the existence of
Sangiran site and to the people who live around. In
view of the tourism development, Sangiran region
has uniqueness and speciality that can be developed
into a special interest tourism attraction. Tourists can
see first-hand the various types of ancient human
fossils, flora, fauna, and other cultural heritage
traces. In addition, visitors can witness the process
of finding and extracting fossils, stratigraphy/soil
outcrops where the discovery of various fossils, and
living-culture community who live there. Through
ancient tourism activities, visitors are given a deep
understanding of the importance of Sangiran site for
science and education. They gain an authentic
experience about the Sangiran site, adventure
experience in Sangiran area, and can learn with the
citizens. Increased understanding and awareness of
visitors to the Sangiran site can suppress the
negative impact of tourism activities such as
environmental damage Sangiran and fossil sales.
Public participation in the revitalization Sangiran
site achieved through a number of activities that
support the preservation of Sangiran and tourism
service provision activities. Through Pokdarwis and
Young Guardian Club, the citizen is directly
involved in the Sangiran site conservation activities
and at the same time enhances their knowledge and
skills. In cooperation with higher education
institutions, BPSNP and local governments make
socialization and training programs on tourism to
empower communities. Armed with this knowledge
and skills, people can participate in the provision of
tourism services such as accommodation services,
scouting, restaurants, souvenirs, and art atrocities of
the people. In short, the revitalization of the
Sangiran area is done in two directions: Empowering
death monument in the form of traces of ancient life
into special interest tour packages, and empowering
living culture and local knowledge that is actually
still practiced by the local community. Both are
symbiotic and mutually reinforcing so the existence
of the Sangiran site as a world heritage can be
preserved and developed.
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