Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Environment, Agriculture and Tourism (ICOSEAT 2022)

The Potential of Local Wisdom for Food Processing as Tourism Attraction in the District of Muna, Southeast Sulawesi

Authors
Sitti Hermina1, *, Heddy Shri Ahimsa-Putra2, Hendrie Adji Kusworo3, Chafid Fandeli4
1The Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah Mada, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Halu Oleo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
3Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
4Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: hermina_sitti@yahoo.co.id
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Sitti Hermina
Available Online 28 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-086-2_126How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Local wisdom; Food processing; Tourism attraction
Abstract

Food is human’s basic need in life. Food that has been long term processed in one community is further called local food. In general, it is processed from local raw materials, and the local wisdom of its people. Each region has its own local characteristic which differs them form one another. Muna community has their own characteristic and unique way of processing their local food, by using traditional and natural ingredients, and this way of processing the food need to be preserved and developed to attract the tourist for the local benefit, where for the tourists, visiting new places not only to taste the local culinary, yet they are also hoping to learn how to cook the food. Therefore, the writer interests to conduct a study on food processing and the potential aspect on how to attract the tourists and visitors in Muna Regency. Method of Data collection taken by observation, interview, and library studies. The approach of the study was qualitative and interactive analysis models by Miles and Huberman. Result of the study shown that there were two potentials of local wisdom in food processing, first detunuha and second detumbu. 1) Detunuha is one of the processes of food wrapping food by banana leaves or breadfruit leaves, the food contains of cassava mixed with palm sugar and put into the bamboo and then burned into a whole for one night. The most interesting part of this tunuha, during the process, it is followed by the tradition of modero dance and kabhanti. In this event, visitors or tourists could be involved into the whole process, taking part in modero, and trying the food. 2) detumbu is the process of making the food from young corn, this katumbu is steamed, the katumbu is made in the farm. Tourists could pick the corn by their own form the farm.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Environment, Agriculture and Tourism (ICOSEAT 2022)
Series
Advances in Biological Sciences Research
Publication Date
28 December 2022
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978-94-6463-086-2
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2468-5747
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-086-2_126How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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