Cultural Substance Actualization in Spatial Planning: Case of Cirebon City, Indonesia

Abstract

Cirebon city which located in West Java Province, is a city that is created due to the existence of a kingdom. The former kingdom cites from the past still stand until today in the form of keraton, whether its building, the king or the community. Cultural identity of keraton has not become synergic with the spatial plan of Cirebon City, and this often leads to a spatial conflict during the implementation. A conflict both in the form of function or value which is not actualized in spatial management. The synergy of space and culture could support the sustainability of a city space, as well as the sustainability of Cirebon City which is wealthy in culture. Cultural identity in the form of a space could provide attractiveness of a city as referred to the statement of UNESCO (2015). Cirebon city has not owned a legal culture-based documents that supports the implementation of the spatial plan. The aim of this paper is to formulate the concept of cultural substance in spatial planning of Cirebon City. The approach method used is qualitative method with hermeneutic approach through text. The result is the finding of a concept that shows leadership and collective awareness to the urgency of culture that is embraced by Keraton as the form of cultural identity actualization and as Cirebon city spatial planning document substance directions.