Advances in Applied Sociology 2013. Vol.3, No.8, 329-333 Published Online December 2013 in SciRes (http://www.scirp.org/journal/aasoci) http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/aasoci.2013.38042 A Spatial Analysis of the Recreation Potential of Cirebon, Indonesia’s Kratons Henny N. Edelman1, David J. Edelman2 1Putrie Consulting, Cincinnati, USA 2University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA Email:
[email protected] Received October 28th, 2013; revised November 28th, 2013; accepted December 5th, 2013 Copyright © 2013 Henny N. Edelman, David J. Edelman. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cirebon is an important port city located on the provincial, as well as cultural, border of West and Central Java. Historically, an important Indonesian melting pot, it is an expanding center of commerce and indus- try. There remain, however, a number of special artistic and cultural features of the city revealed by mo- tifs reflecting the traditions of the Kratons, or former palaces of the Sultanate of Cirebon, which reached its height in the fifteenth century. This paper presents an analysis of the Kratons of Cirebon as a recrea- tional and tourism resource within the concept of the spatial analysis of recreational behavior. It is struc- tured around various aspects of the relationship between human spatial behavior and leisure environ- ments. Keywords: Kratons; Cirebon; Tourism; Human Spatial Behavior; Leisure Environments Introduction analysis of recreational behavior. It will be structured around various aspects of the relationship between human spatial be- Cirebon is an important port city in the south-western part of havior and leisure environments.