KABUT KEBONALAS Tourism Village, Manisrenggo, Klaten, which was built starting in 2021 and began planting fruit plants together with the MBKM Membangun Desa, Faculty of Biology, UGM (Sukirno, S.Si., M.Sc., Ph.D and Yousuf Soulaeman, S.IP) and since 2022 has entered the first harvest period. In November 2023, the first longan harvest was carried out together with MBKM students, Faculty of Biology, UGM together with POKDARWIS, village government officials, and PKK groups. Then on February 28, 2024, KABUT KEBONALAS together with the MBKM team held a harvest activity and socialization of the tourist destination rides to all MUSPIKA of Manisrenggo District, namely Manisrenggo Sub-district Head Mr. Slamet, S.H., M.Sc., DANRAMIL Manisrenggo Mr. Captain Inf. Sukarman, Manisrenggo Police Chief AKP Fajar Damhudi, S.H., all members of POKDARWIS and elements of Kebonalas Village Government, as well as the ranks of Manisrenggo Teachers and Health Center. This activity involved the Coordinator of the UGM KKN PPM team Muhammad Naufal Dzakwan Luzen and teams from several clusters through the UGM KKN PPM program and the MBKM team Darren Nicholas Rahmanto, Fadilah Rahma Julianty, Joananda Taufik Ardana, and Tamara Sugihara, which then operated in the UGM KKN PPM Program period 2 in 2024 with 30 students with the support of the Directorate of Community Service through the Fostered Village Service program and the UGM KKN Sub directorate through the KKN program.
On September 25, 2024, it was a big momentum for the KABUT KEBONALAS tourist village because it coincided with the Klaten Regent’s Sambang Warga activity, which attend by the head of all departments in Klaten Regency, the village heads in the Regency, the tourist village was inaugurated by Mrs. Hj. Sri Mulyani. “Kampung Buah Tlatar has good potential to be developed as edutourism because it has a good view and prospects to be accompanied by culinary and coffee tourism,” added the Regent in her speech. This activity was opened with a performance of the Edan Edanan Dance and Rampag Kendang from ISI Yogyakarta students. KABUT KEBONALAS is expected to become an integrated tourist vehicle for MSMEs, local culture and arts, foster networking opportunities, and contribute to the economic growth of the community. Then, a symbolic handover of longan fruit plants from the Community Service based on Fostered Village UGM 2024 program and MBKM Membangun Desa of the UGM Faculty of Biology was carried out by Mr. Dr. Eko Agus Suyono, M.App.Sc. as the Vice Dean for Research, Community Service, Cooperation and Alumni who in this case represented the Dean, Mr. Prof. Dr. Budi Setiadi Daryono, M.Agr.Sc. On this occasion, the team handed over two longan plants bearing fruit in 100-liter pots and a total of 250 longan plants to Kebonalas residents. It is hoped that the distribution of these plants can support the KABUT KEBONALAS in the future while empowering the economy of local residents to avoid poverty (SDG1) and create an inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable community (SDG 11) and to combat climate change (SDG 13).
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