Abstract
The current studies demonstrate how tourism activities have incorporated the role of festival and heritage to address socio-cultural, economic, political, and environmental issues. In the context of Indonesia, the cultural festival has been used to be one medium of Islamic preaching, since the era of Walisongo in the sixteenth century. Several local level festival appears to attract a large number of visitors which later influences the sustainability of the place, including Ya Qowiyyu Festival in Jatinom, Klaten, Central Java. Preserving the tradition for hundreds of years, the local community in Jatinom maintains this cultural practice until the present day. This research aims to explore the dynamics between the festivals of Islamic culture in Indonesia in achieving the local community wellbeing in the context of sustainable development. It utilizes qualitative inquiry that sees there are multiple, socially constructed realities. The technique used was observation and in-depth interviews with open-ended questions. The study demonstrates the success of Ya Qowiyyu Festival in addressing social, economic, and environmental issues in the area. For example, it generates community contentment and provides a financial contribution to stakeholders and local communities that enhance their wellbeing.
Highlights
The worldwide experience notes that intangible cultural events have become one way to maintain cultural heritage in a massive way, which often incorporate arts and performances, rituals, and festivals (S. Kim, Whitford, & Arcodia, 2019)
Festivals have various meanings that pinpoint to cultural activities (Heriyawati, 2005), cultural ritual activities to show the identity of the community (HS Salim, 2005), as well as activities to show the cultural heritage of a community (Yolal, Gursoy, & Uysal, 2016)
The findings are related to the community wellbeing dimension, which in the context of this study revealed six themes that emerged and will be discussed in results and discussions, presented in Table 2 as follows: Table 2: Emerging Themes from the Data Collection in the Context of Ya Qowiyyu
Summary
The worldwide experience notes that intangible cultural events have become one way to maintain cultural heritage in a massive way, which often incorporate arts and performances, rituals, and festivals (S. Kim, Whitford, & Arcodia, 2019). The worldwide experience notes that intangible cultural events have become one way to maintain cultural heritage in a massive way, which often incorporate arts and performances, rituals, and festivals The creativity produced in cultural festivals has emerged as an enhancement for a city to posit itself compared to other cities in the world (Richards, 2001). This contributes to building the uniqueness of the place. Heritage built environment becomes a strategy to secure authenticity; heritage brings a strong context to the events This helps the events to survive by maintaining the tourists' expectations from time to time
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