Backflow to Rural Social Identity: The Case of Ecotourism Potency to Protect Sangrawayang Villagers Asset in Indonesia

Ahmad Izudin

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This paper describes the social identity and rural ecotourism potency of asset-based Sangrawayang village in Indonesia. It explores how the rural development policy becomes a means of social transformation influences villagers in the context of the emerging local elites and increasing livelihood in their home villages. To gain further understanding in this topic, I employed a qualitative method with case study approach. Data were collected by in-depth interview, observation, and documentation as long as referred to primary data in attending of several informants; there are the numbers of informant twelve interviewees. As a result, while available ecotourism potency, based on natural and cultural assets, protects villagers in enacting village laws and providing welfare programs independently, they limit the means and scope of ecotourism potency to powerful their living resilience. This study suggests that the potential of rural ecotourism should be encouraged through policy changes. Villagers have not recognized their assets and potential caused by social stratification, land ownership, and power inequality, so initiatives to powerful social identity tend to be neglected.

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Local identity, ecotourism potency, sustainable livelihoods, sangrawayang village.

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