Images Of Villages Research Articles

Development of the Creative Economy of the Village Karang Taruna Community Based on YouTubers and Microstokers

The background to this work is that although 90% of Nglarangan village youth have access to smartphones and are involved in social media, most still face obstacles in finding work that suits their potential and interests. This service aims to revitalize the post-COVID-19 economy by empowering the young generation in Nglarangan Village, Kauman District, and Ponorogo Regency by creating YouTube content. This service method uses the Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) approach, which includes stages; identify assets, plan, and dream. Data collection techniques are done through interviews, observation, and documentation. The analysis technique compares the results of previous services with the same theme and with relevant theoretical studies. The result of this mentoring work is that this training not only opens up new job opportunities but also increases the income level in Nglarangan Village. By utilizing the digital landscape, Nglarangan Village is an example of an innovative economic revival after the pandemic. The younger generation's proficiency in using YouTube and the Microstoker platform generates economic prospects and fosters solidarity and creativity among Karang Taruna members. Apart from individual benefits, this initiative also positively impacts the village's image and contributes to local economic growth. Nglarangan Village is an inspiring model illustrating how creative economic empowerment, centered on digital platforms, can bring positive transformation after the challenges of the pandemic.

Realizing a competitive Doplang tourist village through institutional innovation in local potential development

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the tourism sector, including Doplang tourist village, which was recognized as an attractive tourist destination in Semarang Regency. The pandemic situation presented significant challenges that resulted in demotivation among the community in developing the tourism potential of this area. In the context of institutional innovation, this community empowerment aims to address the demotivation of Doplang tourist village's community caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which disrupted the development of tourism potential. One crucial step in achieving this goal is to implement changes and improvements in the structure and mechanisms of organizations involved in managing the tourism destination in the village. Through institutional innovation, it is expected that more effective collaboration and synergy will be created among all parties involved. These changes aim to enhance active participation from the community in decision-making related to tourism development. Consequently, the community will play a more active role in managing their own tourist destination and collectively identifying the potential of local tourism that can be developed. The outcomes of this program also include efforts to raise awareness within the community about developing local tourism potential and creatively promoting the village through social media. Through effective collaboration among various stakeholders, it is hoped that Doplang tourist village will recover from the impact of the pandemic, increase tourist visits, stimulate the local economy, and strengthen the village's image as a competitive, sustainable, and unique tourism destination.

Digital Village: The Importance of Strengthening Village Resilience in the Digital Age

The village is the lowest government level located in the administrative area of districts/cities municipalities throughout Indonesia. The rapid advancement of digital technology has brought global changes that require villages to carry out transformation and adaptation. In responding to this, what should be done for the sustainability of the values of life, preserving traditions, culture, and local wisdom, and building human capital to improve the welfare of its citizens? This study aims to find an extraordinary strategy to realize rural resilience through a digital village. The study used a qualitative method with case studies in two villages: i) Cijengkol Village and ii) Sepakung Village. This study finds the importance of digitalization starting from the village. The apparatus and community of Cijengkol Village are increasingly enjoying the benefits of digitization to complete various daily affairs. Meanwhile, Sepakung Village has published its natural wealth and tourism digitally. The digital village is one of the ideal solutions for rural resilience in the digital era. Human capital is the main factor. Advances in digital technology and digitalization of villages help manage village government, including the development of social life in the community in the village. Second, the village has a global presence, where digitalization has helped change the village's image and the lives of its people. It is hoped that the government will be able to initiate a participatory digital village that is responsive to the dynamics of digitalization, inclusive development, the anticipation of disasters, and digital-based environmental sustainability.

Symbolic Distinctions in Traditional Palestinian Toponymy: Class, Gender, and Village Prestige in Palestinian Space in Israel

This article analyzes the Arabic toponymy of Palestine, based on folk tales and memories of Palestinians living in Israel. The discussion is interpretative and has a dual purpose. First, it aims to shed light on class and gender power relations and the issue of the village's image. Second, it examines the differential relation of Palestinian society to the landscape, as reflected in names of places versus natural features. The starting point is the assumption that toponymy is the result of two parallel processes: names articulate reality and identity, but at the same time, they are also profoundly influenced by the approach of the naming culture to its space. The reading of Palestinian names is a tactic that gives space to popular and peripheral knowledge categories, exposing the limitations of toponymical research in Israel that has tended to focus on the names recently imposed top-down by Zionism, to the neglect of Palestinian spatial constructions. Finally, it empowers the indigenous population by giving voice to their perception of space. The names evoking this perception testify to the ideological and cultural uses of place names, as opposed to the names of natural features used by Palestinian society. The system for naming was a complex system of spatial distinctions and classifications that privileged hegemonic class and gender values by marginalizing feminine or lower-class images.

Branding the Islamic Village: Modesty and Identity in Yogyakarta Kauman Village, Indonesia

Having served as the center of Islamic preaching in the early-twentieth-century Java, the Kauman village of Yogyakarta preserves its brand as an Islamic village. It was where the first Indonesia's Islamic movement, the Muhammadiyah (1912), and its female wing, the ‘Aisyiyah (1922), were founded, developing into national and even international levels, and surviving until today. This paper investigates the use of the Islamic gender ideology in maintaining the Kauman's branding as an Islamic village, and how women have been involved as members of the Islamic organizations and the community and participate themselves in the attempt to maintain the village's image as an Islamic village. The research finds that the hijab practice is central to the place-branding. It shows that the prevailing Islamic definition of gender differences is constructed, distributed, and imposed through the ‘Aisyiyah's recommendation of the hijab (the Islamic veiling) throughout the community in support of the place-branding.

The Polder Museum of Ogata-mura: Community, Authenticity, and Sincerity in a Japanese Village

This paper focuses on a museum in a farming village in Akita Prefecture, Japan. The village was created through a massive land reclamation and settlement project, and the museum was built largely to help clean up the village's image after conflicts over rice production and marketing sullied its reputation beginning in the 1970s. I show that while the politically charged museum has exacerbated differences between residents, it has also become a new venue for them to express their views on the history of their village regarding the authenticity of design and display. The processes behind this illustrate the ways in which individuals construct authenticity in terms of their own experiences and conceptions of both the past and present, and also how concerns over authenticity slowly recede in the wake of a more “sincere” museum environment. On a practical level, investigating the museum and its position in village society suggests that a tourism venture may have a local value other than immediate financial profit. Furthermore, it indicates a methodological benefit in shifting the focus away from “community” as a singular entity, and instead viewing its various people through the museum, so that individual agency may be seen with increased clarity.