Summary: | The aims of this research to review the cultural landscape of Dieng Plateau
and to answer whether it can be regarded as a cultural landscape. There four
aspects studied in this research 1) to describe the history of environmental,
archaeological objects, and philosophy of life and culture of people in the Dieng
Plateau 2) to describe the unique shape of cultural landscape Dieng Plateau 3) to
evaluate the potential of cultural landscape Dieng Plateau 4) to evaluate the
influence of tourism and agricultural activities to cultural landscape of Dieng
Plateau. The research method in this research was descriptive research. Data are
obtained from secondary data, interviews and observations. Based on the data
obtained by both primary and secondary, data were then analyzed using
qualitative and quantitative approaches.
This study is able to describe the form of cultural landscape at the Dieng
Plateau , there are land use pattern, the livelihood, local architecture, natural
formations. Cultural landscape in Dieng Plateau can be categorized as unuique
because it has a unique community, religious values, history and values of
science, as well as land form of Dieng. Dieng Plateau can be said to be a cultural
landscape where meet the criteria for a strong historical value, heritage resources,
typical geographical conditions, while natural systems and the biophysical and
socio-cultural changes are still ongoing. Cultural landscape of Dieng Plateau is
getting threats from tourism and agricultural activities. Unfortunately,
conservation efforts by local authorities have not been running optimally due to
the ineffective planning, implementation, and evaluation of a program.
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