Seeing the Potential of Community-Based Tourism In the Indigenous Dayak Iban Community in Sungai Antu Village

Περίληψη

This paper analyzes the tourism potential of the community in Sungai Antu Village located in the Putusibau area of Kapuas Hulu Regency, West Kalimantan. A community of people who live in the categorization of the 3T (Disadvantaged, Frontier, Outermost) area closer to the state capital in Kuching, Sarawak Malaysia, this makes the transaction of currency usage in this village use a lot of Ringgit currency value rather than Rupiah, therefore to revive the economy of the community must work creatively without expecting assistance from the Indonesian government which is very limited for the village. one of them is to maintain the tradition by making weaving art done by the majority of housewives and teenage girls. Ornament motifs on woven fabrics typical of the Dayak Iban community make this artwork part of the identity of the Dayak Iban tribe in Sungai Antu village and are able to revive the community’s economy besides living in the cultural customary community system of the Dayak Iban tribe and becoming palm oil farmers as the most important livelihood.

This research uses descriptive qualitative research methods, namely a research method using procedures that produce written data focused on problems based on facts that can be proven in the field through the interview process, direct observation and studying existing documents.

The expected result of this research is that it will be known about how far the people living on the border of a country can be part of a potential community of people to become a form of community-based tourism which will certainly be able to have an impact on economic and cultural factors that are increasingly developing by applying local wisdom values that continue to be maintained by indigenous peoples in Sungai Antu Village.