Women’s Empowerment in a Community-Based Tourism Project: A Case Study from the ‘Spice Islands’ of North Maluku, Indonesia

Roswita Aboe; Harriot Beazley; Price Livingstone; Michelle Prasad; William Ramsay; Kris Syamsudin; Rodney W Carter

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-34225-7_13

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Women’s Empowerment in a Community-Based Tourism Project: A Case Study from the ‘Spice Islands’ of North Maluku, Indonesia

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Women’s Empowerment in a Community-Based Tourism Project: A Case Study from the ‘Spice Islands’ of North Maluku, Indonesia

Roswita Aboe, Harriot Beazley, Price Livingstone, Michelle Prasad, William Ramsay, Kris Syamsudin and Rodney W Carter

Rural Development for Sustainable Social-ecological Systems: Putting Communities First, pp.229-262

Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sustainability, Palgrave Macmillan

2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34225-7_13

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Indonesia

community-based development

tourism

gender

participatory rural appraisal

This chapter focuses on the remarkable and sustained success of one CBT initiative in Ternate, Indonesia: the Cengkeh Afo and Gamalama Spices (CAGS) project. In this chapter, we describe how participatory workshops and interviews with village stakeholders and external supporters of the CAGS project revealed enhanced cultural pride of those involved in the project, as well as a rise in status of women within the village. The case study also recorded considerable economic benefits to those involved in the project, and to the wider Ternate community. We conclude that the CAGS project has the potential to preserve a cultural heritage inherited over multiple generations, in the form of traditional food systems, and to provide household income for community members, particularly for women, the youth, the elderly and the disabled. The project is also increasing local and international awareness of the benefits of indigenous knowledge for sustainable development. Such an awareness can improve the everyday lives of households in rural areas across the nation and the well-being of people across the globe.

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Title: Women’s Empowerment in a Community-Based Tourism Project: A Case Study from the ‘Spice Islands’ of North Maluku, Indonesia
Authors: Roswita Aboe (Author) - Khairun University
Harriot Beazley (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research Centre
Price Livingstone (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
Michelle Prasad (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
William Ramsay (Author) - Swinburne University of Technology
Kris Syamsudin (Author) - Tourism Provincial Government Office (Ternate, North Maluku, Indonesia)
Rodney W Carter (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research Centre
Contributors: Claudia Baldwin (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research Centre
Severine van Bommel (Editor) - University of Queensland
Publication details: Rural Development for Sustainable Social-ecological Systems: Putting Communities First, pp.229-262
Series: Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sustainability
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-34225-7_13; 10.1007/978-3-031-34225-7
ISBN: 9783031342257
Organisation Unit: Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Law and Society; Engage Research Lab; Sustainability Research Centre
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99743098902621
Output Type: Book chapter

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