‘GO BACK TO THE BATAK, IT'S SAFE THERE’: Tourism in North Sumatra during Perilous Times

Causey, Andrew

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“…6 These findings parallel Andrew Causey's (2007) reports on the transformations in the once-touristic region of the Toba Batak in Sumatra. However, in Toraja those carvers from families of means who could afford to do so, threw themselves into family ritual activities, a more traditional arena for enhancing status and local prestige.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 59%

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Local Strategies for Economic Survival in Touristically Volatile Times: An Indonesian Case Study of Microvendors, Gendered Cultural Practices, and Resilience

Adams¹

2018

Tourism Culture & Communication

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This article utilizes a qualitative ethnographic approach to examine the economic survival strategies pursued by Indonesian souvenir artisans and handicraft microvendors in touristically turbulent times. Resilience-oriented approaches have offered promising frameworks for understanding regions', destinations', and communities' capacities to adjust and adapt to challenges: this article complements these broader approaches by offering a fine-grained analysis of individual strategies for finding creative solutions to the economic challenges thrust upon them. My approach melds a constructivist approach accentuating local peoples' creative responses with gender-aware and practice-oriented approaches. These findings draw from data collected over three decades of ethnographic research in the Toraja highlands of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 59%

“…4 This return to farming parallels Causey's (2007) report on Batak carvers' reactions to tourism's decline in this era, as well. 5 In 2011, the number of foreign and domestic tourist arrivals in Tana Toraja totaled 19,325 (Data from the Tana Toraja Culture and Tourism Office-3,674 foreign tourists and 12,631 domestic tourists).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 76%

Local Strategies for Economic Survival in Touristically Volatile Times: An Indonesian Case Study of Microvendors, Gendered Cultural Practices, and Resilience

Adams¹

2018

Tourism Culture & Communication

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“…Migrants adapt to the dominant Sundanese culture. Bruner (1974) states; Dominant culture is a culture of a certain ethnic group, the rules of which are mostly used as guidelines for living in a wider environment or society consisting of one or more ethnic groups, with the criteria (1) demographic criteria, the population of members of the ethnic group is at most many in the community, (2) the culture is a local culture whose rules are standardized as a guide for relating and interacting in public places and, (3) is a place of power, meaning that people from that ethnic group have priority to occupy the most important positions in society.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Pematangsiantar City is one of the multicultural cities where Toba Batak migrants live, whose residents are multi-ethnic, requiring all migrants to adapt and adjust to the city's culture. Based on the results of research Bruner (1974). The Toba Batak people still maintain the customs of their ancestors, but they also try to adapt to Simalungunese culture and other ethnic cultures.…”

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Batak Toba Migrants: Adaptation and Cultural Change in the City of Pematangsiantar

Corry

2022

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This research aims to be based on social changes experienced by Batak Toba migrants in Pematangsiantar City. The migrants did not adopt a particular ethnic culture but instead retained the socio-cultural values of batak-toba. However, Batak-Toba migrants did not become dominant in Pematangsiantar City, different in other areas that tended to be dominant. The method used to analyze data on the patterns of adaptation and socio-cultural changes of the Batak Toba people used descriptive qualitative methods. Through this method, it is hoped that it will be able to answer research problems. The population in this study is all Batak Toba migrants who live in Pematangsiantar City. Informants in this study as many as 12 people consisting of traditional Batak Toba figures as many as five people and as a comparison of simalungun indigenous figures one person, Angkola 1 person, Java 1 person, Malay 1 person, Minang 1 person, Karo 1 person, and China 1 person. Data is collected through in-depth interviews combined with library data. Interview results are collected, tabulated, analyzed, verified, and displayed until concluded. The results showed that the pattern of adaptation and socio-cultural changes experienced by Batak Toba migrants was influenced by the cultural background of Pematangsiantar City, namely Simalungun culture as the host culture and other cultures that were not dominant. Batak Toba migrants adapt in Pematangsiantar City to the local culture but retain most of its socio-cultural values, even if they become migrants and settle in Pematangsiantar City.

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“…In Chaudhuri’s fieldsite of Kumily village in the mountains of inland Kerala, many local tour guides, souvenir shop workers, homestay owners and other ecotourism-connected villagers are economically poor and have not travelled widely, but they know themselves to be ‘global environmental citizens’. They possess nuanced knowledge of foreigners and their international worlds, are experts in ecological bioscience, are well-versed in principles and methods of global conservation advocacy, and see as a normal state of affairs the rapid change of conditions of daily life or the coexistence of multiple perspectives on environmental objects (see also Causey, 2007; Meiser and Dürr, 2014; Notar, 2008). They live out these qualities of life in close integration with their status as residents of a rural village landscape.…”

Section: Rural Modernitymentioning

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Afterword: Village space and the experience of difference and hierarchy between normative orders

Stasch

2017

Critique of Anthropology

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This afterword traces certain shared themes across the studies in this special issue and my research on village formation among Korowai of Indonesian Papua. I focus on what Chio describes as the ‘relationality’ of the rural, especially villages’ intense but diverse forms of global connectedness. I suggest our common subject is how rural people think about their place in history by thinking about space. More specifically, I argue that spatial forms are sites through which people engage with difference and hierarchy of normative orders, including not only relations of otherness and inequality between villages and urban centres but also forms of otherness and evaluative hierarchy ‘internal’ to rural spaces and personal subjectivity.

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‘GO BACK TO THE BATAK, IT'S SAFE THERE’: Tourism in North Sumatra during Perilous Times

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Local Strategies for Economic Survival in Touristically Volatile Times: An Indonesian Case Study of Microvendors, Gendered Cultural Practices, and Resilience

Local Strategies for Economic Survival in Touristically Volatile Times: An Indonesian Case Study of Microvendors, Gendered Cultural Practices, and Resilience

Batak Toba Migrants: Adaptation and Cultural Change in the City of Pematangsiantar

Afterword: Village space and the experience of difference and hierarchy between normative orders

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