Sustainable Community Development in Rural and Urban Areas

Abstract

Cultural dimension in development has been widely accepted to propose an alternative approach in development, in which an emic approach in development provides people’s view and bottom-up approach in development. Gintingan is an example of socioeconomic and cultural institution, which has been implemented for decades by local people of Subang, West Java, Indonesia. The institution has been influenced by a Sundanese worldview of Tri Tangtu and implements the local wisdom of Silih Asah, Silih Asih and Silih Asuh. As the institution has been implemented in the region, local people’s preferences varied based on their environmental location and affect its practices in terms of forms and purposes. This paper attempts to elaborate the practices of Gintingan and local people’s preferences in the urban and rural area. The different practices of the institution between rural and urban area might affect to its sustainability and its role in sustainable community development.