Managing Toba area as cultural landscape heritage

Abstract

The Cultural landscape is known as an interaction between humans and nature to set up the built environment and its activity. The built environment has been created because of human activity and the social perspective of life. Toba area which is located in Sumatera island is a cultural landscape area that must be managed appropriately. The first step of the management is announcing the mosaic of Toba to describe the potency of it and understanding the outstanding universal value. This paper is describing as cultural landscape heritage and its management to preserve it. Toba lake and its caldera which have a high value can be categorized as cultural landscape heritage because of the history and process of local people to create the space. Toba area shows the long process of human creativity with the uniqueness of the landscape. The settlement with the local people activity is shown as a cultural landscape. Toba area with is unique landscape as a living space for Batak people’s is a geology process that reflect the past time era and the dynamic of local people the face modernization. All of the data included history and prevent about Toba Lake area and caldera were analysed by the grounded method and qualitative description. To keep Toba Lake area as cultural landscape be required proper management. Not to freeze the condition but how to manage the continuity with a change that is based on past, today, and future.