Empowerment of Women Traditional Woven Craftsmen in Supporting the Sustainability of Local Wisdom-Based Tourism Business in South Central Timor (Case Study on Bersehati Weaving Group, South Mollo)
- DOI
- 10.2991/978-2-494069-83-1_40How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Women Empowerment; Sustainable Tourism; Local Wisdom
- Abstract
This Bersehati Weaving Group is located in Biloto Village, South Mollo District, Timor Tengah Selatan Regency. This traditional woven fabric is considered to be one of the products that can support the sustainability of the tourism business. Therefore, women must be more creative and innovative in creating woven fabrics into products that still maintain the identity or identity of the woven fabrics. This research is focused on empowering women craftsmen of traditional woven fabrics in producing woven fabrics based on local wisdom.
The approach used to analyze this problem is to use a qualitative descriptive analysis method. Data collected in this study are observation, FGD, literature study and documentation.
The results of the study show that the empowerment of women craftsmen of traditional woven fabrics in supporting the sustainability of the tourism business includes human resource development, cultivating community capital, developing productive businesses, and providing appropriate information.
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TY - CONF AU - Syul Rosli Sanam AU - Martarida Bagaihing AU - I Wayan Adi Putra Ariawan AU - Set Daud Tuan PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/30 TI - Empowerment of Women Traditional Woven Craftsmen in Supporting the Sustainability of Local Wisdom-Based Tourism Business in South Central Timor (Case Study on Bersehati Weaving Group, South Mollo) BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Science and Technology on Social Science 2022 (iCAST-SS 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 223 EP - 228 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-83-1_40 DO - 10.2991/978-2-494069-83-1_40 ID - Sanam2022 ER -