The Ekowisata training in the Notable Village, Samarinda, East Kalimantan

Notable am a territory that is inhabited by the Dayak Kenyah community since 1970. They come to this territory in a bergelombang manner and gather from the area of the Mahakam River upstream. The Notable location really close to the capital of the East Kalimantan province namely Samarinda, only around your 20 or 45 minutes by motor vehicles.

His inhabitants numbering approximately 300 heads of households, the majority is religious Christian Protestan. Despite often is mentioned with the village, but Notable is not yet acknowledged as the definitive village and this often confuses the community. In fact in several places of the government installed the plank of the guidance and information about the Notable cultural Village.

See the community's Dayak Kenyah special characteristics and access that are easy and fast to head Notable, this territory afterwards begins to grow and develop as the area of the aim of the tour. On June 19 1991, H.M. Ardans, the Governor the East Kalimantan province at that time ignite Notable as the Notable cultural tourist attraction that is coordinated directly under the Service of Level Tourism Ii the Samarinda municipality.

As the tourist attraction, the territory This is often visited by tourists especially on Sunday. Not less than 50 – 100 tourists visit on Sunday. These tourists watch the dance at 14.00 – 15,00. The price of the ticket for the vehicle Rupiah 5,000 and each visitor is put on the tariff Rupiah 2,000. The performance is carried out in the Lamin Building the tradition that is located exact in the middle Notable. Lamin this tradition is the main attraction of the available tour visit in this village. His building is very grand, many most amazed-amazed people at first when seeing his wall that be full of carve-ukiran.

The tourist attraction manager in Notable, until this is not yet available. The activity that uptil now is is carried out by the management of Notable art of the village of the cultural garden. The financial management is still being very simple, they record all revenue and the issuing every month and pelaporan to the community by means of clinging the report on this finance in preparations space for the dancer who is located in lamin the tradition.

The community know that tourism that need to see is developed. However they always confusion from where Begin and improve become better and terencana. The regional government through the Tourism Service actually several times responded, for example the socialisation about realise the tour, ask the dancer and the musician to be involved in various event art, but this response does not answer the problem in fact that is dealt with by the community and their hope to the side of the development and the tourism management. As the form of the interest in the local community, The Total of EandP Indonesie, mean to develop ekowisata this Notable cultural Village, so as to be able to increase the autonomy capacity of the local community in manage ekowisata in his village.

To achieve this aim, The Total of EandP Indonesie co-operates with Kawanusa carry out the research, investigation, the training, gives the suggestion, and the recommendation about nature resources and potential human resources to be able to be developed in this Notable cultural Village. The beginning activity to develop ekowisata in Notable am the training to increase the professional capacity the local community in the management ekowisata in his village, besides this aim also at reinforcing the organisation of the available community And introduce the marketing strategy ekowisata independent to the village community. The training for 1 week on December 8-17 2008, of course just was the introduction to early to masyarakat. still necessary to be followed up by the process of intensive assistance, in order to bring about the development ekowisata that is based on the community and the environment in the notable village, Samarinda, East Kalimantan.