Taman Mini Indonesia Indah: Education or Entertainment?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21512/humaniora.v4i1.3425Keywords:
Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Open-air Museums, EdutainmentAbstract
With combination of attractive appearance, taste, smell and sound, open air-museums can offer so many things to visitors; from educate to educate and entertain. Here, ‘edutainment’ concept starts to take place. The problem is there can be misconception between the creators and visitor’s perception. In this research, qualitative methodology, through interviews to get information form creator’s perspective and visitor survey to get information form the visitors’ perspectives were conducted with Taman Mini Indonesia Indah as the case study. The findings show that there is still misconception about education and entertainment perceptions in Taman Mini. Taman Mini has strong educational purposes, but because of ack of attractive educational programs, lack of information and interpretation and no encouragement to participate in the educational programmes, visitors considered their visits as recreational, rather than educational. In relation with postmodern phenomenon, Taman Mini can be considered as postmodern and adopting ‘edutainment’ concept, but this concept has became blur and vague, thus Taman Mini now only famous as a recreation venue.
Plum Analytics
References
Boardman, K. (1997). Revisiting Living History: A Business, An Art, A Pleasure, An Education. http://www.alhfam.org/whitepapers/alfham.revisit.html.
Clark, M., et.al. (1998). Research and Writing Deissertations in Hospitality and Tourism. London: Thomson Business Press.
Easterby-smith, M. Thorpe, R. and Lowe, A. (1991). Management Research: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications, Inc.
Hendry, J. (2000). The Orient Strike Back: A Global Views of Cultural Displays. Oxford: Berg.
Hitchcock, M. (1998). Tourism, Taman Mini and National Identity. Indonesia and the Malay World. Vol. 26, No. 75, h. 124-135+
Hitchcock, M. S., N. & Siu, Kung Chung. (1997). The South-east Asian’Living Museum’ and its Antecedents. dalam S. Abram, dkk (eds.) Tourists and Tourism: Identifying with People and Places, Oxford: Berg.
Hooper-Greenhill, E. (1994). Museum Education dalam E. Hopper-Greenhill (ed.). The Educational Role of the Museum, London: Routledge.
Hussey, J., and Hussy, R. (1997). Business Research: A practical guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students. London: Macmillan.
Mason, J. (1994). Linking qualitative and quantitative data analysis. in A. Bryman and R. G. Burgess (eds.) Analyzing Qualitative Data. London: Routledge.
Stanley, N. (1998). Being Ourselves for You: the Global Display of Cultures. London: Middlesex University Press.
Taman Mini Indonesia Indah Guidebook. (1996). Pesona Wisata Budaya Taman Mini Indonesia Indah. Jakarta: Taman Mini Indonesia Indah.
Taman Mini Indonesia Indah Official Website, http://www.tamanmini.com
White, R. (2003). That’s Edutainment. Kansas City: White Hutchinson Leisure and Learning Groups. www.whitehutchinson.com/leisure/articles/edutainment/shtml.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License - Share Alike that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
b. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
USER RIGHTS
All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options, currently being defined for this journal as follows: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC BY-SA)
