| Abstract |
Bukit Daun is an area located in Bermani Ulu subdistrict, approximately 20 km from Curup City, Bengkulu Province and located about 700 – 1000 masl. This area now is one of the geothermal exploration sites in Indonesia to be developed for electricity purpose. In general, Observations in some geothermal fields show that social supports are one of the most important factors that determine the success rate of development activities in the geothermal area. In the other hand, the Geothermal area provides geotourism potentials and shows promising benefits to educate people because geotourism has been widely accepted by all kinds of society as their welfare. Departing from this point of views, we want to construct a plan that linked geothermal potentials in Bukit Daun area to geotourism in order to serve a good way in educating the people in Bukit Daun area. The method that we conducted to builds a construction plan is literature study, field, and social observations, as well as comparing it to other geothermal fields as case studies and interpretations to choose the most suitable ways of constructing it. The field observation shows that this area has some prospectus places to be developed as geotourism sites, they’re Bukit Daun itself that offers beautiful landscapes, geothermal manifestations, Lakes, and Waterfalls. Also, certain places in this area act as recharge area and contain fertile soil to grow any plants including Rafflesia and Amorphophallus as national rare flowers. The main concept that we propose to the plan is “Geodiversity in Geothermal Geotourism”, that based on following main values, 1) Rewarding, 2) Enriching, 3) Adventuring, and 4) Learning. From this values, the concept will be brought to education and conservation purpose by providing scientific information about the natural phenomena especially in a geothermal area that based on the appreciation of those phenomena, enrich the people’s knowledge and abilities, and initiate participation of people in geotourism activity. Also, in this study we consider other values such as cultural value to find the most suitable ways to deliver the information to society, economic value to give the benefits to the economic side of local people that lived in the geothermal area, and aesthetic value of the geotourism sites to attract and encourage people’s curiosity. From this plans, we believed that geotourism could become good way to educate people in a geothermal area especially in exploration area like Bukit Daun. |