Noken: Women Empowerment & Tourism Industry in Papua

DOI

10.2991/amca-18.2018.61How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Noken, poverty, women empowerment, tourism industry

Abstract

This article aims to explain the opportunities of wicker bags noken, as a way for Papuan women to be more empowered. Noken is a traditional handmade Papuan handbag. Currently, young women are starting to leave the tradition of weaving noken because it is considered a symbol of backwardness. Woven bag noken may improve the welfare of women as well as sustaining Papua tourism. If it is packed in an attractive way, noken can be used as a souvenir icon of Papua. In turn, it develops the tourism industry and a means of women empowerment. This article describes the opportunities for women's empowerment in supporting the tourism industry through the development of woven bags noken. The research took place in Merauke district of West Papua.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Machya Astuti Dewi
AU  - Meilan Sugiarto
AU  - Iva Rachmawati
AU  - Sri Issundari
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Noken: Women Empowerment & Tourism Industry in Papua
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 225
EP  - 227
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/amca-18.2018.61
DO  - 10.2991/amca-18.2018.61
ID  - Dewi2018/07
ER  -