Sociocultural Capital and Its Roles in Traditional Heritage Housing Conservation Scheme: A Case Study of Brayut Tourism Village (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Social system and cultural capital of the traditional community take significant parts on the way of how people utilize their surrounding environment, including their houses. Mutual interaction and support between physical setting and sociocultural values will also have an effect on the environment to exist. Brayut Village puts emphasis on tourist attractions based on prospective natural and local cultural heritage. This paper explores the roles of social and cultural way of the community life of Brayut Tourism Village, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in attempting new alternative schemes to conserve the cultural heritage of local traditional houses as tourism assets. The methods of data gathering are direct observation and depth interviews for the purpose of obtaining their social–cultural potentials. The initial findings show that the social lifestyle such as the Javanese principle of ‘gotong royong’ among society and cultural values such as family inherited system play important roles in the conservation scheme of local traditional houses in Brayut Tourism Village, in order to adapt the changes due to tourism needs and threats.