6 Jurnal Teknik Sipil & Perencanaan Vol 20 No 1 2018 p. 6-11 JURNAL TEKNIK SIPIL & PERENCANAAN http://journal.unnes.ac.id/nju/index.php/jtsp/index Potential Development of Brayut Cultural Village, Sleman District, Yogyakarta Adyanti Putri Ariadi 1,a) , Dimas Wihardyanto 2,b) , Muhammad Sani Roychansyah 2,c) 1 Master Student, Master of Tourism Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Gadjah Mada University. 2 Lecturer, Department of Architecture and Planning Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Gadjah Mada University a) Corresponding author: adyanti.putri@gmail.com b) wihardyanto@gmail.com c) saniroy@gmail.com Abstract. Brayut Tourism Village is an agricultural and culture - based tourism village located in Sleman Regency. The potential of nature and culture is very interesting to be developed further. However, during its development, there are some emerging issues which damage the environment and the life of Brayut Tourism Village society. The purpose of this research is to maintain and preserve the potential for sustainable tourism of Brayut Village. This research used a qualitative descriptive method, including explaining development strategy covering various aspects, which are the environmental, sociocultural, and economic direction of physical and non-physical development. For the sake of the continuity of the uniqueness of nature and culture, Brayut Tourism Village that grows in the middle of Sleman Regency development area requires sustainable tourism management. The important element in the development of village tourism is the involvement of villagers in every aspect of tourism activities in the village. Keywords : cultural village, tourism village, development strategy, sustainable, Brayut. BACKGROUND Historically rural tourism in Indonesia has grown in diverse ways. Some originated from an interest in plantation activities, some of which originated from the knowledge about cultures that were more focused on researching the activities of living in an isolated society with its original and distinctive culture [1]. Many specialists notice the need to diversify the traditional agricultural activities from mountainous rural areas, taking into consideration the idea of starting farms-based tourism businesses [2]. Rural tourism is located in rural areas, has a reduced scale, is characterized by a traditional/local origin and different forms of manifestation [3]. The tourist market shows a growing interest in the countryside as a leisure space, providing open space for outdoor recreation, contact with nature and culture, socialization opportunities in a distinct environment, which is valued for its contrast to stressing city life, return to the origins and the authentic, often associated with some nostalgia of the “good old times” [4]. Brayut sub-village is a rustic in Pendowoharjo village, Sleman District, Sleman Regency, Special District of Yogyakarta. This village is one of the dozens of tourism villages spread in Sleman district. Before becoming a tourism village, Brayut Sub-Village is an agricultural village. One of the uniqueness parts of Brayut Sub-village is to have a distinctive environment of the sabuk inten (the name for the area surrounded by rice fields). Agriculture is their main livelihood so that the rice fields are a diamond for them. The change of Brayut Sub-Village from an agricultural village to a tourism village takes place slowly and through a very long process. The change began with the idea of a villager named Budi Utomo in 1990. He was a graduate of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Gadjah Mada University. Mr. Budi Utomo founded the Ani-Ani Foundation in 1999 centered in his home, in the northern part of Brayut Sub-Village. The purpose of the foundation was to develop an alternative tourism for