PERAN SUNTORO HARYONO DALAM MENGEMBANGKAN MUSEUM KAMPOENG CAK SOEN KABUPATEN NGAWI 2010-2022

Abstract

The Kampoeng Cak Soen Museum is a museum located in Tempuran Village, Paron District, Ngawi Regency. Initially the Museum was an East Java Traditional House which was later renovated slightly and converted into a museum. Suntoro is someone who has a hobby of collecting historical antiques and has the idea of preserving this traditional house into a museum.
This study discusses issues regarding (1) Suntoro Haryono's biography, (2) Suntoro Haryono's role in developing the Kampoeng Cak Soen Museum, Ngawi Regency, (3) The benefits provided from the establishment of the Kampoeng Cak Soen Museum, Ngawi Regency. The research method used in this study is a historical research method which includes heuristics with the main sources being interviews and archives, verification or criticism of sources to obtain facts, interpretation or interpretation by connecting facts, and historiography or writing with research results in the form of historical thesis.
Suntoro was born on January 27, 1956 in Tempuran Village, Ngawi Regency, with education ranging from elementary school to university. Suntoro has a career and is struggling in the economic field at a company called PT Jasaraharja. Suntoro's role in developing the Kampoeng Cak Soen Museum had an impact on the development of a fairly good museum which began with rehabilitating the East Java Traditional House in 2010, designating the house as a place for his personal collection, and preserving it by opening a museum until developing it in 2019, then closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and reopened in 2022. The Kampoeng Cak Soen Museum also provides benefits for the community which can be viewed from an educational perspective as a learning medium, a place for learning, and a source of information. The economic side is the availability of jobs and increasing economic levels. In the social field it causes community interaction.
Keywords: Museum, Suntoro