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Community Empowerment As A Tourist Attraction And Creative Economy Development In Kota Tua Jakarta, Rahmi Setiawati

Journal of Indonesian Tourism and Policy Studies

The Kota Tua Jakarta area is one of the leading tourist attractions in DKI Jakarta Province based on cultural heritage. Currently, the City Government of DKI Jakarta has carried out a revitalization, namely the construction of a rearrangement of the old city, so that it becomes an urban tourism area in the past (history). The purpose of this research is to build a community empowerment program as a tourist attraction and create a creative economy in Kota Tua. The concepts used are empowerment, community, attraction and creative economy. The research method used is a qualitative approach with data collection techniques …

Book Review: The Third Pillar: How Markets And The State Leave The Community Behind, George Morrow

Essays in Education

Rajan, Raghuram (2019). The Three Pillars: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind. New York: Penguin.

Mr. Rajan explains the success and failure of societies through the interrelationship of three social sciences (what he calls pillars): economics (the marketplace), political science (government), and sociology (communities). In Section I, Mr. Rajan describes the origins of each pillar starting at the end of the medieval era. Each pillar has its own tale related to it social science but their stories are interwoven as well. An example: the marketplace and the expansion of trade (both territorially and in complexity) could only …