ASKARA - Bareto Village is a cultural and educational tourist attraction located on 3 hectares of land, with a slope of around 45 degrees on the left bank of the Garut-Cisurupan Highway, under the foot of Mount Cikuray. Administratively, Bareto Village is within the scope of Tambakbaya Village, Cisurupan, Garut Regency.

At this cultural tourist attraction, the management provides several cottages with traditional Sundanese architecture, prayer rooms, museums and other facilities, making tourists feel at home to linger, with natural views and the Mount Cikuray group which is clearly visible when the weather is clear.

Not only that, in Bareto Village visitors will also be introduced to several traditional "baheula" games. Such as dam-daman, sondah/engklek, sorodot gaplok, galah sodor, panggal/gasing, congklak, as well as the traditional sports of slingshot and archery.

This idea began with concern and expression for Sundanese ancestral culture which is no longer known to future generations.

So said Rd. Cepy Kusumah, one of the founders and managers of Kampung Bareto, said in a statement received, Monday (22/1).

Kang Cepy, his nickname, took the initiative to build a cultural and natural conservation area, which was packaged into the tourism segment. The intended concept is in the form of a cultural and nature-based tourist destination, which can be used as an educational object, especially for students.

“In general, culture-based tourism (culturetourism). "It is a type of tourism activity that utilizes culture as a tourist attraction that can be visited by tourists," said Kang Cepy, a Sundanese culture observer and humanist.

He hopes that students can better recognize their ancestral cultural heritage which is full of cultural values (local wisdom), as well as the natural environment by directly seeing and recognizing it.

"Apart from being a conservation effort, it can also support tourism development," he said.

In line with that, next, it is very appropriate because tourism should be directly proportional to the concept of preserving culture and nature itself.

"In this case, there should be reciprocity, where culture and nature become objects of tourist attraction that tourists actually like and are interested in," said the calm man who is known to be friendly and polite by local residents.

The culture that is grown and developed into new products is based on how local wisdom or cultural values become a unified whole. Such as living procedures or behavior, equipment and utensils in the past, traditional games, methods of farming, raising fish and poultry and so on.

"How can cultural values or local wisdom be reintroduced to the younger generation, especially students in the intact area, namely Bareto Village," he said.

 

Editor: Theo Agoy