| Abstrak/Abstract |
Cultural landscape is a complex expression of a lifestyle as a result of the synergy between cultural and natural heritages in a space and time unit, which creates a complex phenomenon with tangible and intangible identities. Cultural landscape reflects the way the people manage their environmental system to achieve the harmonious life with nature and maintain the cultural identity The outstanding values of a cultural landscape are the uniqueness of the area either in the history of the area, physical landscape, or culture of the community. To protect these values, UNESCO World Heritage develops criterias and conducts a selection for heritage cultural landscapes around the world which have an„outstanding universal value? to be world heritage cultural landscapes.Borobudur area is a heritage cultural landscape with Borobudur Temple as the center of the area.The integration among historical potency, natural features, and village community culture has created a highquality and unique cultural landscape.The integration between the landscape and community culture results four cultural landscape heritage forms, wich are: a) land utilization pattern; 2) community life; c)architecture; and d) natural features. The integration of the four forms creates a scenic beauty which full of symbolic meanings, and the unity of them contains four outstanding values as the local values. They are: a)high quality of landscape structure; b) rich and continuity of local values; c) role of history and heritage resources; and d) content of education and science values. The rich potencies of the landscape and culture of Borobudur, and also the strong unity of them, make this area as an outstanding heritage cultural landscape that meets the UNESCO criterias as the world heritage cultural landscape. Potencies of Borobudur area, and the continuity of the landscape and culture create a unique cultural landscape until today in the middle of on going changes of the area and the community culture. |
