55 | Proceeding Book 7th Asian Academic Society International Conference 2019 ISBN: 978-602-61265-5-9 Penanggungan Mountain: Economic Improvement Through The Preservation Of Archaelogical Sites Andri Setyo Nugroho, Fauziyatul Fikriyah Iwa Logika * , and Fikria Fahmi Amala Department of Historical Science, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, 60286, Indonesia * Corresponding author, Email address: fikrilogika222@gmail.com Abstract This research aims to elevate historical tourist destinations of Penanggungan Mountain site. In 2013, Penanggungan Center Team of Ubaya noted there were 131 archaeological sites in there. However, difficult road, extensive site coverage area and this site rarely visited by many people abandoned site makes. In Tenth to Sixteenth Centuries A.D. Penanggungan was a sacred place, this was written in the Kakawin Nagarakertagama which tells of King Hayam Wuruk visiting the hermitage on Penanggungan Mountain. This research was carried out through observation, comparison, and planning. Comparison is made with the Trowulan site as a National Culture Heritage area. Based on this comparison, planning go through step by step. First, sosialization of historical value to local comunity of Penanggungan Mountain. Second, improving the infrastructure. Third, increasing supervision of visitors. The result of this research is improve the economy in Penanggungan Mountain site for local comunity through a tour package. Keywords: tourism, historical, site, penanggungan 1. Introduction The field of history and antiquity is becoming a new trend in the world of tourism. Tourist attractions that make natural scenery as an object have been found. Seeing this certainly needs new innovations in the development of tourist attractions. At the moment historical attractions are in demand by tourists. Historic tourism objects have 2 advantages, that is they can enjoy natural scenery and learning. One promising object as a historical and ancient tourist spot is Penanggungan Mountain. Penangunggan Mountain is located about 40 km southwest of Surabaya City. Administratively it is in the territory of two districts in the East Java province. Most of it, the western part is in Mojokerto district. And partly, the eastern part of Pasuruan Regency. This mountain is a unit of highland area with nine different height peaks. The highest peak of Penanggungan Mountain is 1,653m above sea level. The other four peaks are represented by hillsides that surround Mount Penangunggan, namely Gajah Mungkur (1087m), Bekel (1238m), Kemuncup (1227m), and Sarah Klopo 1275m. While the rest are four lower peaks from Semdo hills 719 m, Wangi 987m, Bende 927m, and Jambe 747m. Ancient buildings of the Penangunggan mountain site are found starting from the feet to the top. Until now, the archaeological spread of Mount Penangungan is still recorded as concentrated on the West side. Most are terraced buildings made of andesite stone structures. Some are from stone blocks, but there are also parts that are composed of chunks of natural stone that have not been worked on. There are also decorative ones that are plain. Ornament of buildings in the form of story reliefs, plants, animals, geometric ornaments, or various other forms of ornaments. Based on the carving of the year numbers in ancient Javanese scripts and languages found in several buildings there, it can be seen, archeology in all mountain penangungan sites originated from the period between the 10th century until the 16th century (Indonesian Archaeological Research Team, 1983). Penanggungan has eight hills that surround it in the eight corners of the wind direction may have attracted the attention of the past. So from that it was considered as Mount Mahameru located in Jambuddwipa. According to hindu-buddha cosmology, Mahameru Mountain is a sacred mountain, this is told in Samudramanthana, "the story of sea stirring" is said to be a sacred mountain because this mountain is a god's throne. There are two versions of this story that are very well known. In the ancient Javanese version, Adiparwa, the first part of the ocean milk mahabarata gave rise to Amerta after being stirred using mahameru as a stirring rod while the mountain was supported by turtles. In Tantu Panggelaran Jawa, which