Contribution of Traditional Culture Protection to the Economics Nation

Abstract

Traditional cultural knowledge is a gift of God which is great for the country, in general are developing countries. Indonesia is one of the owners of the traditional culture develops in 33 provinces, with 1128 ethnic groups inhabits Indonesia. This traditional culture riches would potentially acquire Indonesia to a very large economic benefits when used it commercially. However, the economic benefits due to the riches of traditional culture were not clearly captured in Indonesia. At the moment many of the Indonesian traditional culture has been used inappropriately by another country to support to their economic growth. The rising of injustice utilization of the traditional culture has appears in the developing countries such as Indonesia. The developing countries has never been received any protection, respect and benefit sharing for indigenous peoples as the owners of traditional culture. The utilization of traditional cultural can be defined as the use of the traditional culture as a commercial asset and using it without sharing profits from the developed countries which using it. Therefore, the Indonesian government must provide protection for its traditional cultures. This paper describes how the protection of the traditional culture and its utilization can support the developing country economic growths.