Local Wisdom as Educational Tourism: A Study from Kampong Dukuh West Java Indonesia

Abstract

Community life with local wisdom is always interesting to discuss, especially local wisdom is really different from the lives of people in general. Indeed, the values of local wisdom contained in a particular area are sacred and must be maintained. However, often the values of local wisdom are only stored and carried out by people who live in the area, whereas in fact the values of local wisdom are very useful for people's lives. Therefore, by utilizing modernity, uniqueness, and the values of local wisdom, certain areas can be used as educational tours that not only benefit leisure but also provide life learning that comes from the values of local wisdom. Information exploration activities about the values of local wisdom are carried out in Kampung Dukuh, Garut, West Java, Indonesia with a qualitative approach and a case study method of local wisdom values that can be used as an educational tourism vehicle for local wisdom can be found. This finding is seen to be beneficial for the development of tourism which places the values of local wisdom as a form of new educational tourism that is beneficial to the lives of individuals and society in general. Keywords-local wisdom; tourism education; tourism development3rd International Seminar on Tourism (ISOT 2018)

Indonesian Local Wisdom: State of the Art

“…It is then integrated into teaching materials since primary education [16] and in Indonesian language learning [17] and English as a foreign language learning [3] [20]. In addition, cultural heritage is also considered essential to be integrated into both available teaching materials [18] and vocational teaching in the tourism sector [11]. Indonesian cultural diversity and heritage as values that are relevant to cultural preservation become the rationale for the study of local wisdom in the context of ethnic culture [15], universal regional culture [22], and ancient cultures that need to be revitalized [24].…”

“…In other fields, the implications of the study of local wisdom in Indonesia put its target on the field of sociolinguistics [22], and the implications of the scope of pragmatics [19]. Meanwhile, there are also implications in the field of tourism [11], the scope of visual communication [26], and the area of social science [27].…”