Leveraging IT for the Preservation of Baduy Indigenous Communities: A Digital Strategy by the Culture and Tourism Department of Lebak District

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The Lebak Regency Government and the Lebak DPRD in 2001 issued Regional Regulation No. 32 of 2001 concerning Protection of the Ulayat Rights of the Baduy Community. Disturbance to the preservation of the Baduy environment which consists of the natural environment and socio-cultural systems that depend on several factors, these factors are external (originating from outside the community) and internal (originating from within the community).
 OBJECTIVE: This research aim to analyze local wisdom in protecting the Baduy indigenous people and determine the most appropriate local wisdom strategy to implement.
 METHOD: The method used in this research is descriptive research method and strategy analysis using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique.
 RESULT: The results of the study show the dimensions that determine the application of local wisdom in the protection of the Baduy indigenous people by the Lebak Regency Culture and Tourism Office are the dimensions of local knowledge, local values, local skills, local resources, and elements of decision-making mechanisms. CONCLUSION: Strategy for Optimizing Local Wisdom in Protecting the Baduy Indigenous Community, the Lebak Regency Government, especially the Tourism and Culture Office, needs to take strategic steps by referring to digital-based policy strategy patterns by prioritizing the following dimensions: first, the dimension of local wisdom. local resources, second, the dimension of local skills, third, the dimension of local values, fourth, the dimension of decision-making mechanisms, fifth, the dimension of institutional support, and sixth, the dimension of local knowledge.