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Apar Tourism Village in Pariaman City, West Sumatra is one of the 50 selected tourism villages in the 2021 Indonesian Tourism Village Award competition. The competition was initiated by the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy. There were 50 tourism villages selected from a total of 1,831 participants. Currently, the Jury’s council of the competition along with Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sandiaga Uno are directly visiting the 50 tourism villages. According to Minister Sandiaga Uno, the Apar tourism village has great tourism potential, starting from its beautiful and clean beaches, mangrove tracks, to turtle conservation. In addition there is also STIB, Baruak College of Science which is also interesting enough.

At Baruak College of Science, the local people train monkeys to pick coconuts and pick the best ones and then give them to tourists. Traveling to this Apar Tourism Village, you can also enjoy the shade of the mangrove forest by adventuring mangrove tracking, and taking pictures at an instagrammable spot gazebo. You can also explore the mangrove forest by canoe, visit the viewing tower and witness the animals at the Apar tourism area. One of which is the hatchling (turtle baby). Here, there is a turtle breeding area adjacent to the Apar Pariaman Mangrove Park area.

The Apar Tourism Village has also a stretch of blue and clean beach, and a beautiful sunset. Here, you can also enjoy the culinary specialties. The culinary that characterizes the Apar Tourism Village is processing mangrove fruit into drinks and food. For crafts, there is embroidery with gold thread and banana stem crafts. You can buy the gold thread embroidery or banana stem crafts as gifts for someone you love.

Directorate General of Post and Informatics, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics along with Directorate General of Culture, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbud Ristek) agreed to choose the Jathilan dance from Yogyakarta and the Piriang Suluah dance from West Sumatra as representatives of cultural wealth of Indonesian dances. Both traditional dances become  the first-quarter-2021 stamp series. The selection of the two dances is considered to represent the treasures, uniqueness and diversity of cultures across Indonesia. Furthermore, the Jathilan Dance from Yogyakarta and the Piriang Dance from West Sumatra have been designated in the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Indonesia.

Piriang Dance or plate dance is a typical dance of Minangkabau, West Sumatra. Based on the historical note, the Piriang dance was created to show people's gratitude to deities by presenting offerings of delicious food brought by beautiful girls. However, when Islam teaching entered the Malay area, the function of the Piriang dance was no longer aimed at worshiping deities, but for kings and officials. Along with the times, the Piriang dance is shown not only for the king but also for the king and queen for a day, for bride and bridegroom. Now, Piriang Dance is usually performed at weddings, welcoming great guests, art performances and other traditional ceremonies.

In general, the movement of the plate dance isby placing two plates on two palms. As quoted from the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (kemlu), dancers swing the plate in fast movements, interspersed with clinking a plate or two rings on the dancers’ finger toward the plate they are carrying. At the end of the dance, usually the plates brought by the dancers are thrown on the floor and the dancers will dance on the broken plates. They dance, jump up and down, and roll around while carrying plates on broken glass. Uniquely, the dancers are not injured at all and the plates they are carrying do not fall. The number of dancers is usually odd from three to seven people. The dancers wear brightly colored clothes with shades of red and golden yellow and headgear. The dance is accompanied by a combination of Talempong and Saluang/flute musical instruments. The tempo of the music is soft and regular at first and then, gradually it changes to become faster.

Porang (Amorphophallus muelleri) is one of the agricultural commodities with high levels of glucomannan. Glucomannan is a polysaccharide compound that is useful for reducing cholesterol, accelerating satiety and slowing stomach emptying, making it suitable as a healthy food product, such as biscuits. The use of Porang in Indonesia in food products is still very minimal. In addition, the Porang market is still dominated by export needs. Therefore, an effort is needed to process Porang into healthy food products that have a selling value, such as healthy biscuits for pregnant women.

Five Brawijaya University students consisting of M Ahmad Talkhis, Nabilla Alya Anastasya, Farida Lutfiya Azizah, Fatih Meru Samudera and Vio Awan Nur Hidayat under the guidance of Dr. Lilik Wahyuni, M.Pd make biscuits for pregnant women from Porang named Amora Pregnancy Biscuit. The Amora Pregnancy Biscuit is a processed product of Porang as a form of food diversification in the form of biscuits for complementary food for pregnant women. The content of polysaccharide compounds in the Amora Pregnancy Biscuit can be used as a medium and long-term energy source so that it can help the pregnant to be full longer and suppress stomach acid which can reduce nausea and vomiting to prevent hyperemesis gravidarum. By consuming the Amora Pregnancy Biscuit, pregnant women can avoid dehydration which is dangerous for the mother and fetus. In addition, the presence of the Amora Pregnancy product is expected to enlighten the farmers because the increasing demand for Porang basic ingredients is expected to increase the opportunity for the selling value of Porang so that it can improve the farmers' economy.

The Amora Pregnancy Biscuits are an innovation of the Student Creativity Program organized by the Directorate General of Learning and Student Affairs of the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia. The Amora pregnancy biscuit product innovation has won a silver medal at the international Korean Women's Invention Exposition 2021. May this achievement make Amora Pregnancy Biscuit be well-known not only in Indonesia but also in the international world and this will have the opportunity to take part in the 34th National Student Scientific Week in 2021.

Sukabumi in West Java is famous for the Cisande Tourism Village. According to Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy -Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, the village has huge potential for livestock education tourism in the area. It offers a variety of activities with animal husbandry educational values for tourists, such as ornamental fish and catfish cultivation. Interestingly, the village has also the potential for other educational tourism activities, such as decorating caping kites and planting rice. The village also has a myriad of attractions in the form of outbound flying fox activities, archery, river tubing, camping ground and Pine’s hill.

The Cisande Tourism Village also highlights local cultural values by presenting a culinary garden in which there are Angkringan, coffee shops, and traditional Cisande cooking class activities. You can also visit production houses, such as flip-flops crafts, traditional Cisande games, woven bamboo, shredded catfish, typical Batik of the Cicantayan sub-districts, Sukabumi and typical pangsi clothes. The expanse of green land and cool air will give you a new adventure sensation while refreshing your body and soul.

The Cisande Tourism Village, located in Cicantaian District, Sukabumi Regency, West Java, is included in the category of the 50 best tourism villages in the 2021 Indonesian Tourism Village Award organized by the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy. The existence of this tourism village will have an impact on economic equality in the village. In the future, the West Java provincial government will make a regional regulation on tourism villages as a legal umbrella for the implementation of the tourism village itself. The Cisande tourism village also applies health protocols so that your holiday atmosphere is safer and more comfortable.