Cultural heritage incentives for the conservation of traditional settlements: The case of Malaysia, Japan and South Korea / Indera Syahrul Mat Radzuan
A variety of incentives mechanisms have been formulated by many countries in order to promote the conservation of their cultural heritage, specifically in preserving their distinctive traditional villages. However, the existence of these traditional villages in the contemporary landscape has been...
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2016
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| Summary: | A variety of incentives mechanisms have been formulated by many countries in order to
promote the conservation of their cultural heritage, specifically in preserving their
distinctive traditional villages. However, the existence of these traditional villages in the
contemporary landscape has been considered fragile thus as many of them have been
torn down due to rapid urbanization. This research examine the conservation efforts
initiated by the Japanese, Korean and Malaysian authorities in safeguarding their
historic villages ranging from tangible to intangible heritage. As observed, there has
been little or no research into the nature and impact of these incentives and how they
might be integrated into heritage management strategies. Apart from that, scholars have
criticized the so-called incentives policies due to their inability to provide equal and
equitable distribution of benefits to the local residents within the effected village areas.
This research seeks to investigate the various types of incentive policies that have been
applied in Japan, South Korea and Malaysia. For these three Asian countries, this
research is conducted to address the overarching question of whether incentives
programme that have been formulated for the communities are suitable towards their
aspirations and real needs. Reflecting on the differences of the policy provisions, this
research has adopted a case study approach; where the mixed methods approaches were
employed, including a questionnaire survey as a tool for data gathering coupled with indepth
interviews. Formal interviews were carried out with the officials of national, state
and local government in these countries. The case study assesses the communities and
professionals view on the implementation of tangible and intangible heritage
conservation programme.
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The research is the first insightful study of the historic villages which attempts to draw
out the importance of the effectiveness of the incentives programme in guiding the
conservation efforts for the local economic development. Despite numerous efforts to
foster community engagement in the study areas, however, the pertinent issue is still
overshadowing programme implementation – does the communities were given
adequate recognition in the decision making process or community engagement is just
another public relation exercise? Hence, this research has also identified constraints on
the current incentives policy implementation and issues due to the rapid development
and its impacts to local livelihood.
Result shows there was a divergent direction between the current incentives policy and
the local aspirations between sites. In most cases, the cultural heritage conservation has
been found to be a catalyst to fulfil a heritage tourism advantage rather than to cater to
the local community needs. Further investigations into this area seem to be necessary in
order to offer a more sound and rounded guide to an effective incentives policy |
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