The Sago Plant in the Folklore of Papua and Its Potential for Creative Economic Development
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- 10.2991/978-2-38476-394-8_41How to use a DOI?
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- 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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TY - CONF AU - Sri Yono AU - Siswanto AU - Drajat Agus Murdowo AU - Yohanes Adhi Satiyoko PY - 2025 DA - 2025/05/19 TI - The Sago Plant in the Folklore of Papua and Its Potential for Creative Economic Development BT - Proceedings of The 5th International Conference on Linguistics and Cultural Studies 5 (ICLC-5 2024) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 364 EP - 369 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-394-8_41 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-394-8_41 ID - Yono2025 ER -