Infrastructure Development and Community Participation: the Efforts to Develop the Archaeological Site and Semedo Museum in Tegal Regency

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10.2991/icorsia-18.2019.18How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Infrastructure, Community, Participation, Archeological Site and Museum Semedo

Abstract

Infrastructure development is one of the factors that support the development of Semedo Site as an ancient site with the discovery of fossils and artifacts when Plestosen found since 2005 located in Semedo Village, Kedungbanteng Subdistrict, Tegal Regency. The construction of the Archaeological Museum of Semedo will be open to the general public in 2019 as educational, research, and tourist destinations that will impact the social, economic, and cultural aspects of the community around the site. This study aims to encourage the acceleration of infrastructure development that is being implemented by the government by involving academics and community to support the development of the Archaeological Site and Museum Semedo. The method used in this study using qualitative and quantitative descriptive with data collection techniques conducted through interviews, observation, and data analysis. Based on the results of the analysis, it is concluded that in general the infrastructure tends to influence the condition of community participation in an effort to improve the economic welfare of the community around Semedo Site. So that the acceleration of infrastructure development will encourage the economic growth of the community in Semedo Village and facilitate the access of tourists to the Archaeological Site and Museum Semedo.

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© 2019, 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  - Nina Witasari
AU  - Arfan Habibi
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BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Rural Studies in Asia (ICoRSIA 2018)
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SN  - 2352-5398
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