The preservation of Dago Pojok tourism village is an effort to develop a region rich in arts ..."Bandung (ANTARA News) - A tourism practitioner of Bandung is conserving the three cultural villages of Dago Pojok, Batulonceng and Jelekong that have tourism potential.
"The preservation of Dago Pojok tourism village is an effort to develop a region rich in arts and local culture amid the incessant influx of foreign culture," a tourism practitioner of Dago Pojok village, Rahmat Jabaril, said here on Monday.
People in this village preserve traditional forms of arts and culture such as calung and bamboo music, dances, paintings and games.
They also hold workshops to attract foreign tourists from the Netherlands, China, South Korea, and Taiwan.
According to Jabaril, the village program brings a lot of innovations to peoples activities, such as painting murals on the walls of the village.
Moreover, Jelekong village offers several cultural art forms such as Golek puppet shows, Sisingaan and Jaipong dance forms, and pencak silat martial arts.
"The finesse for painting is usually an ancestral skill learned from Odin Rohidin," a painter in Jelekong village, Asep Sutisna, said.
There are at least 600 painters in this region, from where paintings are distributed to several foreign countries, including Malaysia and Saudi Arabia.
Jelekong village has several tourist attractions, as well. These include the Cangkring Waterfall, Batukarut Waterfall, and Landak Cave.
Another village in Bandung city where the tourism sector is developed is Batulonceng village, located in Lembang sub-district of West Bandung district.
Batulonceng village offers tourists several potential attractive destinations, such as megalithic sites, a natural conservation area, a traditional village and a camping ground.
"The tourism program involves tourists in activities of Batulonceng village," the chairman of the village, Encang, affirmed.
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