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International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT) ISSN: 2249 – 8958, Volume-9 Issue-1, October 2019 Spatial Planning and Traditional Culture Based Urban Acupuncture Concept On Upgrading Low Carbon Tourism Village Erni Setyowati*, Retno Widjajanti, Agung Budi Sardjono, Mochamad Arief Budihardjo City without Slum (CWS) to eradicate slum in Indonesian Abstract: The Sruni has been declared as a tourism village cities, the Wonosobo regency government developed many since 2011. The village is rich in cultural diversity, strong programs to alleviate poverty and slum in its villages and community participation and beautiful scenery of paddy field, kampongs, the Indonesian terminology of villages located mountains and river. This paper identified the urban acupuncture concept on spatial context and traditional culture in the near the city central business district. Becoming the centre of improvement process to become low carbon tourism village. The Java Island in Indonesia, the Wonosobo Regency surrounded methods used covering interview, field observation, Focus Group by volcanic mountains, Sindoro, Sumbing and Prau mounts, Discussion and ended with implementing the concept in design. in which the region has such beautiful spectacular The results showed that the demands on promoting the village as mountainous scenery. Having topography condition in the tourism object was very strong and housing re-densification could range of 275 - 2,250 above sea level, the Wonosobo has a reduce the carbondioxide concentration as much as 43,439%. comfortable climate with an average daily temperature of Keywords : urban acupuncture, spatial planning, cultural 23-27ºC per year, yet it has a very high rainfall of 2,300 mm in diversity, low carbon tourism a year with at least 65% rainy days every year. The regency is bordered in the north by the Temanggung Regency, in the I. INTRODUCTION west by the Banjarnegara Regency, in the south by the Purworejo and Kebumen Regency and in the east by the As the Sruni village in Wonosobo has been declared as a Magelang Regency. The location of the Regency and Sruni tourism village based on the Spatial Planning Management village are described in Fig. 1, while the climatology data are Regulation of Wonosobo Regency year 2011 – 2031, it depicted in Table I. gradually becomes very famous due to the richness of culture, beautiful natural scenery, traditional housings possible to be home stays, art, ritual event, traditional dances and music. The promotion of the cultural wealth of the Sruni village could not be separable from the role of Dieng Creative Hub (DCH), a public facility that often organizes and performs traditional art events of the village as well as accommodates other communal activities such as sports and focus group discussions (FGDs) to develop the Sruni village as tourism object. Furthermore, the Sruni has not only cultural diversity but also natural resources which are very abundance and need to be altered and recycled as daily energy regarding a low carbon energy concept that is very beneficial for the Fig. 1. Map of Java Island, Wonosobo city, inhabitants. and location of the Sruni village Since the Indonesian Government launched the program of The centre of the Wonosobo city is the open public space, „alun-alun’, a traditional centre square, is in red point located in the heart of the city (see Fig. 1). On the direction to the Revised Manuscript Received on October 15, 2019 Sruni village, ones must be move along the Kyai Muntang * Correspondence Author street in the eastern part of the city in south direction. The Erni Setyowati*, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia. Email: Sruni village is located in urban periphery with still has a huge [email protected] paddy fields, surrounded by mountainous scenery and Retno Widjajanti, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty bordered by the famous Semanggung river in the east (see Fig. of Engineering, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia. Email: [email protected] 1). Due to its geographical site and location, this village has Agung Budi Sardjono, Department of Architecture, Faculty of comfortable climate refer to the Wonosobo climatological Engineering, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia. Email: data (see Table I) [email protected] Mochamad Arief Budihardjo, Department of Environmental Engineering, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia. Email: [email protected] Retrieval Number: A2238109119/2019©BEIESP Published By: DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.A2238.109119 Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering 7087 & Sciences Publication Spatial Planning and traditional culture based Urban Acupuncture concept on Upgrading Low Carbon Tourism Village Table- I: Climatological Data of Wonosobo city Temperature b Oct Jan Dec Fe Nov Aug July Sept May June and rainfall April Marc Average Temp. (°C) 22.0 22.1 22.4 22.5 22.8 22.3 21.8 22.0 22.4 22.9 22.4 21.8 Min.Temp. (°C) 18.0 18.0 18.2 18.3 18.5 17.5 16.7 16.7 17.3 18.1 18.1 17.7 Max.Temp. (°C) 26.0 26.2 26.6 26.8 27.1 27.1 26.9 27.3 27.5 27.7 26.8 26.0 Rainfall (mm) 359 448 346 513 217 254 29 20 9 457 655 373 Days of rain (days) 25 25 24 25 15 19 8 10 12 21 26 20 The Table I reveal that the city has a unique climate with with the design and the local government then could follow up average temperature between 16.7°C-27.7°C, such a lower by realizing the design for the benefit of the community [2]. temperature compared to other cities in central Jaca province. Although it comprehensively discussed the way how the By these climatological and geographical data, it is very social and technological networked system could be applied, logical that there are still many rice fields on the border of the yet it did not revealed the spatial context of urban acupuncture city and it looks really sub-urban. implementation. Urban acupuncture concept in urban design Slum region as a tourism object development Studies about urban acupuncture to upgrade region, cities As the urban acupuncture is closely related to the and villages have been conducted by a number of researchers upgrading bad conditions of the cities and villages, many [1]–[4]. As stated by Harjoko that the urban acupuncture was studies discussed the slum tourism in correlated with the the analogical terminology adopted from the human body tourism development [5]–[11]. Continuing on the discussion system as healing process concerning human vital organs of tourism development policy, the Indonesian government including lung, liver, kidney, heart system, large and small through the Wonosobo regency has had policy on developing intestine system. It was a pinpoint approaches to upgrade the the slum village having cultural diversity as a tourism object kampung either in the heart of the city or in the periphery like the Sruni village [12]. region [1]. In the study, Harjoko revealed that the urban A research conducted by Martins et. al, highlighted that the acupuncture covers transport system, urban parks and Portuguese tourism organization has developed a virtual greeneries, affordable housings for the poor and recycling multisensor experience method to promote thematic tours of a system. In the conclusion, it was found out that the urban port wine tourism in the Douro valley, Portuguese [5]. This acupuncture generates activities and sectors in urban that application model with a virtual multisensor experience suitably causes the city or village functioning enlivens in a method has proven feasibly and can be implemented in broader meanings. Like the study conducted by Harjoko, promoting thematic tourism in the Douro wine port tourism. reviews of urban studies undertaken by Lerner and Brown Although the research succeeded in finding promotional discussed transforming the city through the urban applications that could be applied to accelerate the tourism acupuncture concepts [3], [4]. The studies properly identified sector around the world, the research did not discuss spatially the concept on the city, but the implementation on how the how the wine port tourism was planned, designed and housing for the poor could be applied and how the social supported by local government policies [5]. On the other context concerning the cultural diversity could be integrated hand, research by Zhao and Ritchie implied that the had not been discussed comprehensively. development in a tourism-based approach to poverty Unlike those studies concerning the concept of urban alleviation has developed nowadays. The United Nations acupuncture, Houghton et al. wrote their experience on how World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has prioritized to enliven the Brisbane city to be a city that has activities, poverty eradication in the past decade with the concept of recreational facilities and cultural as well as social events and ST-EP stands for Sustainable Tourism as an effective tool for festivals. The approaches used in their method were Eliminating Poverty [6]. Since tourism academicians ignored implementing social and technological networked the alleviation of poverty, studies were then split and only interactions. Finding in their research identified key elements limited to the scope of discussion while on the methodological were needed to arrange the public spaces using the social and side, they did not have a consistent direction. Zhao and technological networks. A new wave of communication, Ritchie discussed an integrative research framework, which interaction and interdisciplinary connections were proven to synthesizes various perspectives and could be used as a be part of the stimulus to enliven the city of Bribane through comprehensive guideline to stimulate and lead other future UR [BNE][2]. The UR [BNE] is a social network application questions about tourism and poverty alleviation [6]. technology which could bring online communication and Furthermore, possible further studies were recommended dialogue between planners, designers and communities.