The Srimpi Renggowati: A Study of Sustainable Cultural Tourism in The Art of Classical Javanese Dance in Yogyakarta

DOI

10.2991/atf-16.2016.65How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cultural Tourism, Classical Javanese Dance, The Srimpi Dance.

Abstract

Started with our curiosity, how the classical Javanese dance like the Srimpi dance still popular for young dancer in Yogyakarta among of competition popular dance from Japanese, Korean and others foreign culture for young and teenagers. The Srimpi dance turned out still had a place for its existence. How it could be like that? Is there any social strategy applied from all stakeholders of classical Javanese dancer, so made the Srimpi dance sustainable as one of the famous attraction for cultural tourism's Keraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat. The research on this Srimpi dance has an objective to find how a Yogyakarta's people still transmitted this kind of classical Javanese dance from generation to generation. We accidentally found one type of the Srimpi dance showed with five dancers. That is the Srimpi Renggowati. Our curious raised up and looked for why that Srimpi Renggowati was different than the others. We used qualitative research methods with participatory one of us day by day interacted with several stakeholders in classical Javanese and one of us being as a dancing student of that course in Yogyakarta in 2015. Swagayugama, Krida Beksa Wirama and Siswa Among Beksa Foundation were observed and we made several interviewed with the key persons in that dance course. We got the comprehensive answers why this classical dance still sustains and what was the meaning of The Fifth Srimpi Renggowati Dancer. Seven indicators are used to looking for that The Srimpi dance has been a sustainable attraction for Yogyakarta tourism. Even we must collect data from several sources, but proved comprehensively that The Srimpi Renggowati is one of in grade methods our cultural attraction to keep existing in modern society. Regeneration, Education, Adaptation, Economy, Proud, Existence and Emotional bond found in our research. These were convincing us to our cultural tourism have typical quality value as they called "Adi Luhung".There for, we should aware of the threat if in the next future with one of the seven indicators cannot be found anymore. Our conclusion is the seven indicators from the concept of sustainable can be used if our cultural tourism in Indonesia wants to survive. Especially indicator of an economy that nowadays has been ignored cause of competition in cultural business so made our original cultural attractions have not placed on young people. We must build social-tourism strategy, how our cultural commodity be appreciated with valuable price for support the stakes holder living in prosperity.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Tri Meinal
AU  - Reni Rahmawati
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BT  - Proceedings of the Asia Tourism Forum 2016 - the 12th Biennial Conference of Hospitality and Tourism Industry in Asia
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 439
SN  - 2352-5428
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