SIKALANG WALK: POST COAL MINING ECOTOURISM IN SIKALANG VILLAGE, SAWAHLUNTO

• Main Author: Gabriella Handry, Carmelina
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/64981
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Coal mining is an activity that constantly leaves environmental problems. The land used for mining will generally be abandoned after the land has been dredged. These former mines can have a negative impact on humans and the surrounding environment. In Sikalang Village, there is land that was used for a coal mining which is currently still being abandoned without any follow-up to improve the land. The village is located at Sawahlunto City, the oldest coal mining town in Southeast Asia, which is currently famous for its mining tourism. The identity of this “mining town” can still be maintained without the need to add new mines, namely by designing post-mining tourism. One type of tourism that involves ecology, socio-economics, and culture which is also needed by Sikalang Village at current conditions is ecotourism. Ecotourism is a form of tourist destination that is not only intended as an ordinary natural tourism, but a tourism that is responsible for the preservation of unspoiled areas, provides educational and economic benefits, and maintains cultural integrity for the local community. In the context of Sikalang Village, ecotourism is a form of land restoration that is needed in this case as a form of settlement from mining to convert previously disturbed land into land suitable for reuse or transfer to new functions. For this reason, the vision of this design process is to revive land that has been abandoned by post-mining by providing explorative and informative mining tourism facilities as a learning medium for the community and tourist visitors. This ecotourism will be designed on an area of 66,000 m2 which also has three ex-mining lakes in the site. This project will have three main scopes or functions, mainly as a recreative tourist spot, a productive place for local people to fulfill their daily needs, and as an educative mining learning media. For the purpose of formulating the problem, the basic theory used in this design include Sustainable Design, Community-based Ecotourism, and Spatial Mining Utilization. The main concept of this tourism design is "An Aftermath Journey of A Coal Mining", which focuses the design theme on how tourists travel within the tourist area so that zones, building placements, and circulation are arranged according to the desired scenario that want to be delivered to the tourist to get the whole desired experience.