Conservation Of History Heritage In The Middle Of Urban Development At Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta

Yogyakarta is one of the provinces in Indonesia that very well known as the city of student and the center of Javanese art, culture, and heritage. Moreover, the heritage tourism which take special part toward tourism industry in Yogyakarta, appeared to be very successful to give contribution to Yogyakarta to represent and illustrate Yogyakarta as one of Indonesian identities. However, as modernization and urban development tend to be increased, Yogyakarta has to face problem in lack of heritage conservation awareness from its citizen. Lifestyle changes, life expectation changes, and more attributes of urban development have eliminated the sense of traditional value. Therefore, this paper tries to dig out the challenges and help to improve the city without neglect that heritage, and find out what is the alternative strategy to regenerate and sustain (in term of heritage conservation) the said heritage in the middle of rapid commercialization (urban development).