The Lebak Banten Tourism Office Agrees On The Inner Bedouin Area Without Internet Signals

The Inner Bedouin community is so far prohibited from using cellphone devices and also by transportation because they are still determined to preserve their ancestral culture. BETWEEN MANSur

BANTEN - The Department of Culture and Tourism (Disbudpar) of Lebak Regency agreed that the Badui area would be abolished by the internet network in order to preserve the culture of the Bedouin community. "We have no problem with the decision of the customary institution to abolish the signal in the Badui area," said Head of Disbudpar Lebak Regency Imam Rismahayadin in his statement in Lebak, Banten, Friday, June 9, which was confiscated by Antara. The decision of the indigenous Badui community proposed the elimination of telecommunication signals or blank spots in the Bedouin settlement area to the government. This is done to protect and preserve the cultural values of the Bedouin community. "We believe that will later make people curious. And it can have a positive impact on increasing tourist visits to Badui," he said.

He is optimistic that the elimination of internet signals can actually bring tourists to Badui both from the country and abroad, because people are getting more and more curious. In this way, his party only needs to help inform and educate cultural tourism activists. "We really support the Badui residential area, the internet signal is removed for the preservation of the ancestral heritage culture," said Imam emphasized., because it does not use sophisticated tools, "said Samun, a visitor from Serang, Banten.