- Author: Fiqh Vredian
- From: Young Researcher of Maarif Institute for Culture and Humanity, Jakarta
Abstract:
Cultural diversity, in social capital writing, can lose social cohesion, affect inequality and reduce bonding and bridging capital. However, the attention for sustainable diversity grows internationally. Although pluralism, redistribution and environment protection issues have contrary view but it is positively interrelated and interlinked. In the last five year period, for instance, Banyuwangi, , has managed diversity to enforce social and healthy environment. Therefore, this paper studies Banyuwangi?s capital as resources which build a compassionate city with a sustainable diversity atmosphere. This paper argues that Banyuwangi, the first compassionate city in Indonesia, shows how diverse communities can live together and prosper with accommodative policy maintaining cultural differences, humanism and pluralism values. By compassion values, Banyuwangi Regent Government innovate various programs to fulfill citizen right and equity, to decrease poverty, and to improve public services. This achievement is in line with the development of cultural and ecological tourism framework incorporating cultural heritage of Osing communities so that it becomes a resource of sustainable development. Nevertheless, ecological abuse of gold mining becomes big obstacle of sustainable diversity in Banyuwangi.
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