The Ponorogo Regency Government will again hold various events at the grebeg suro 2023 event. Through the Tourism Office, the district government is scheduling events to start in early July 2023.
Head of the Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sports Service (Disbudparpora), Judha Slamet Sarwo Edhi explained that there will be 27 activities at the Grebeg Suro celebration later.
“This year, there are several events that we are combining, if in previous years they stood alone. It’s like an automotive event,” he explained.
He hopes the 27 events will be able to boost the economy. The goal is to increase the economy. In line with Ponorogo which has become a creative city of Indonesia.
At the Reog Ponorogo National Festival, he is optimistic that there will be more participants, including applicants from outside Java who will be involved.
“Cultural events and the Reog Ponorogo Festival are still a mainstay,” he added.
The Regent of Ponorogo added that the Grebeg Suro Event was indeed a mainstay of the Ponorogo tourism agenda, with the hope that many tourists would come to Ponorogo. This makes Pemkab keep trying to package it into something interesting.
“We have to hold an event that is already commonplace to be extraordinary, which means we add value,” explained the Regent of Ponorogo, Sugiri Sancoko.
Not just an exhibition, he said, but the Ponorogo Regency Government is trying to present more value. An example is the heritage exhibition by Tosan Aji. “We will explain that the keris and science, it turns out to be scientific, it turns out to be a work of art, every exhibition tries to value it,” he concluded. Adv/Ptr
