Abstract
The old City of Semarang as a heritage area has a significant historical value. Since Independence Day of Indonesia, that area has been abandoned and unoccupied without maintenance. Lack of activity makes the heritage area become a dead city and broad to some issues, environmental, buildings defects, social and institutional governance. The revitalisation activities of cultural heritage in some countries are unique to the technical, socio-economic and cultural aspects. Often the parties could not be generalised due to issues of the authorities, financial capabilities, readiness of stakeholders, and the complexity of its heritage buildings. The research aims to formulate a revitalisation strategy for the heritage area of Semarang to a World Heritage from the stakeholders’ perspective through a qualitative, descriptive method. The research strategy uses Focus Group Discussion, semi-structured interviews and field observations were involving the parties on old city revitalisation projects. The results provide the strategy for revitalisation of Semarang heritage area. Stakeholders perspectives become a lesson learned for future strategic management in heritage buildings, either private or public property
Highlights
The potential of Semarang Old Town as tourism object can be seen from its historical values, as it was a fortress and trade centre of the Dutch [1]
The sampling of data source was conducted purposively through the competent respondents who were directly involved in the revitalisation of Semarang Old Town
The secondary data has been obtained from literature study of journals and books relevant to the research theme, regulations on cultural heritage building revitalisation as well as data obtained from institutions in the form of the master plan of Semarang Old Town management
Summary
The potential of Semarang Old Town as tourism object can be seen from its historical values, as it was a fortress and trade centre of the Dutch [1]. Semarang Old Town was on UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2015. The Municipality of Semarang is trying various effort to include Semarang into the list of UNESCO world heritage site in 2020 [1], one of them is by revitalising the old buildings. OUV is used as the assessment criteria for determining a cultural heritage to be listed in world heritage. The implementation of revitalisation of Semarang Old Town must apply the assessment criteria to achieve the world heritage status. The involvement of the stakeholders has the most significant role in regulating the implementation of Semarang Old Town revitalisation. The involvement of the stakeholders would be implemented into a framework of revitalisation management of Semarang Old Town. The framework tends to craft the strategies of cultural heritage area as a reference to revitalise other regions
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