Indonesia Hidden Heritage Creative Hub (IHHCH) together with the Jakarta Maritime Museum held the City Story Festival on Saturday, 28 January 2023 then, which is located at the Jakarta Maritime Museum.
The festival was opened by Director of Event IHHCH, Aryo Bimo Notohadikoesoemo, and from Kasatlak Kreasi and Care, Mr. Triyadi Purnomo. Then, there was also a Betawi Fan Dance performance from the Purnama Kreasi Studio.
The City Story Festival is a celebration, award, pride, and one form of documentation of various cultural heritages present in urban spaces. IHHCH together with the Jakarta Maritime Museum will hold 12 a different story about Jakarta each month, which will be packaged in a creative way. The festival with the theme “City Stories: Spices, Betawi Coffee and Culinary” is the opening of the 12 City Stories series, which was successfully implemented with lots of enthusiasm from visitors.
The festival is enlivened with various programs, including a culinary bazaar, Live Painting & Sketching, the appearance of Gambang Kromong, competition, sharing session, Movie Screening, and fun games.
For your information, holding this event is one of IHHCH's efforts with the Jakarta Maritime Museum in developing the Museum as an urban tourism icon by highlighting the cultural heritage of the city of Jakarta and creative economic products. By holding this creative program, it is hoped that it will change the stigma of society who considers museums only as places that display historical stories, but it can also be used as a creative public space and travel option. Thus, community participation for activities and visits to museums can also be increased.
Event starts with sharing session “Heritage Talk: Spices, Betawi Coffee and Culinary”. This activity was filled by two speakers, namely Ary Sulistyo from the Director of Research and Development IHHCH and Repa Kustipia from the Gastro Tourism Academy. The two sources explained the position and potential behind spices in the development of identity and tourism in Jakarta and Indonesia. Ary Sulistyo, or familiarly called Mas Ary, filled the discussion by discussing the importance of knowing the history of spices as a booster for Indonesia's economy today. Next, Mba Repa Kustipia added, that the original resources of the Archipelago have had an impact on various aspects such as politics, culture, health, culinary, to technology and industry. If concluded, These spices will remain relevant and transform according to the needs of the times.
This first City Story Festival also became a special enthusiasm for the community. This is because, this event managed to gather representatives from various communities to conduct sharing session in an event Community Gathering, after being delayed for a while 2 year. Community Gathering delivered directly by Nofa Farida Lestari as the Executive Director of IHHCH, and filled by six speakers from various communities.
"Congratulations and success for the event. Really miss this event, pray that every year there will always be an event, bigger and more compact,” said one of the Community Gathering participants, Mba Ais Sofie.
Then, exist Movie Screening and Coffee & Chill talking about coffee, starting from coffee farming from upstream to downstream, the future of coffee farmers, to potential coffee production in Indonesia. This event invited speakers from the Surya Kencana Collective, Satria Bima Al-Rashid and Erik Nugroho. The participants welcomed this activity, for providing a lot of education related to the development of coffee in Indonesia.
In the afternoon, there was an appearance by the Kromong Betawi Entim Gambang which was enlivened with typical Jakarta songs. As the event progresses in the afternoon, for sketchers from Our Community Sketch also shows off his knack for drawing some view of festival area, and Live Painting use coffee.
The event continued by watching the Numbling contest & grunt, which was directly judged by Harry De Fretes, or what we usually know is Bang Boim Lenong Rumpi, and Bang Indra. This competition invited laughter from the visitors because the contestants displayed the ability to grumble and grunt which was very funny.
City Story Festival sponsored by Belfood Indonesia and the Millennium Literary Universe, also presents other interesting activities, such as elementary school level coloring contest. Then there are also Family Fun Corner and Museum Race, followed from adults to children.
This event was welcomed by every visitor who came. Dewi, one of the opening delegates tenant at the Town Story Festival, say, “It turned out to be the Maritime Museum eye catching very, young people can also come here for photos and so on. Here also introduce maritime history, history of Indonesian spices, all of them are introduced in this Museum.”
Even though it was raining when the event started, however, this first City Story Festival was still held lively with the enthusiasm of the visitors and invited guests. Some of the general public also enjoyed the event at that time. This is the spirit for IHHCH and the Jakarta Maritime Museum to further introduce the Museum as a tourist destination at the next City Story Festival.
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