Creative Urban Kampung Based on Local Culture, a Case of Kampung Bustaman Semarang

Abstract

Urban kampung has the uniqueness and becomes the historical development of the city. Urban kampung has local culture, which potentially purposes to create a creative urban kampung. Kampung Bustaman in Semarang City allegedly has some local asset to develop towards a creative kampung by using its local culture. This study employed a qualitative method through a qualitative descriptive analysis to formulate the creative kampung concept on Kampung Bustaman. The findings show that Kampung Bustaman has local culture as local assets – goat processing and culinary related to goat. Local community assisted by the other parties and local institution should develop these local assets to enhance the local economy and strengthen social ties. It can be realized by food processing to be more valuable, kampung events, and art. A strong commitment of community is required to ensure the creative activities and promote creative urban kampung. It concludes that creative kampung is a kampung that can optimize its local assets for communities’ welfare of through creative ideas.

Thematic Villages Assessment

“…In addition, thematic village management requires the participation of the community to develop optimally (Cahyani, Astuti, et al, 2020;Rahmawati, Purnomo, et al, 2022). Community commitment is needed to support creative village activities and promotions (Yuliastuti and Sukmawati, 2020). Thematic village development can have a positive impact if the community can see the positive side, participate in it, and can see the potential for additional income that can be generated (Fosso and Kahane, 2013).…”

The ‘kampung formula’: Infrastructural adventurism and public art in Semarang, Indonesia

“…As the above blog quote suggested, the intervention aimed at removing a stain from the area and its inhabitants by embellishing the kampung with locally meaningful public art. In the case of Bustaman, a secluded but relatively small kampung , painted murals were primarily supposed to brand the neighbourhood as a ‘creative urban kampung’ (Yuliastuti and Sukmawati, 2020) with a distinct cultural identity. Embellishing kampung space showed a desire to improve Bustaman’s reputation and lure state workers and tourists into the area.…”

Strategi Penataan Kampung Wisata Tepi Sungai

“…Dari berbagai literatur dapat dilihat bahwa pendekatan penataan kawasan tepi sungai yang telah banyak dikembangkan di berbagai negara perlu dilihat sebagai sebuah bentuk peremajaan kota yang juga mempertimbangkan banyak hal bukan hanya aspek fisik namun juga non fisik seperti sosial, ekonomi serta lingkungan (Yuliastuti & Sukmawati, 2020). Hadirnya kampung wisata ini merupakan sebuah contoh dimana transformasi fisik kawasan kampung kumuh menjadi kampung wisata memberi banyak dampak positif bagi masyarakat terutama dalam peningkatan kualitas hidup seperti peningkatan pendapatan, kebersihan kampung, suasana kerjasama dan gotong royong yang lebih baik dan lain sebagainya (Letfiani & Widyasari, 2015).…”