Proceedings of The 5th International Conference on Linguistics and Cultural Studies 5 (ICLC-5 2024)

The Sago Plant in the Folklore of Papua and Its Potential for Creative Economic Development

Authors
Sri Yono1, *, Siswanto1, Drajat Agus Murdowo1, Yohanes Adhi Satiyoko1
1Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: sriy009@brin.go.id
Corresponding Author
Sri Yono
Available Online 19 May 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-394-8_41How to use a DOI?
Keywords
sago plant; folklore; creative economics; Papua
Abstract

Gastronomic has become crucial factor for tourists to visit tourist areas. Knowing and tasting local cuisine is a unique cultural experience. Tourists visit specific tourist attractions only to taste the foods. This phenomenon creates opportunities for developing local foods and promoting the origin of local cuisine through systematic marketing and publications. Gastronomic as reinforcement of a region’s identity and authenticity. Papua’s abundant sago plant said in the folklore can be an exciting source of local culinary development. Sago planting, sago harvesting, and sago processing are unique cultural attractions. Local food development based on sago will be tourism gastronomic and creative economy driver in Papua. This qualitative research discusses the sago based local foods that promote culinary tourism, and the cultural social activities associated with sago plants. Data collected through library studies and processed through folklore and creative economy analysis. Sago has enormous potential as a gastronomy of tourism and a creative economy in Papua.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of The 5th International Conference on Linguistics and Cultural Studies 5 (ICLC-5 2024)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
19 May 2025
ISBN
978-2-38476-394-8
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-394-8_41How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2025 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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AU  - Siswanto
AU  - Drajat Agus Murdowo
AU  - Yohanes Adhi Satiyoko
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