About the Golo Koe Festival

Background

The Development of Labuan Bajo as a “Super Priority” Tourism Destination.
Tourism is understood as a journey of encounter between people, other cultures, and the natural world.
Tourism as a pilgrimage of encounter has several core values:
- Holistic: The integration of various cultural, social, environmental, and economic aspects to achieve community well-being and environmental sustainability.
- Participate: The active and creative involvement of the local community in the development and management of tourism.
- Cultured: Tourism is rooted in and grows out of the wealth of local wisdom and the richness of local spirituality.
- Sustainable: Tourism that preserves nature and safeguards the integrity of creation.
- Synodal-Inclusive: Tourism that fosters a sense of brotherhood in a spirit of openness that embraces social, ethnic, and religious differences and diversity.
This experience of encounter reaches its fullness in union with the Creator through Mary Assumpta as a spiritual symbol of pilgrimage and complete devotion to the Divine.
The main feature of this festival is its religious and cultural nature, which blends the richness of Catholic spirituality with the wealth of Manggarai’s local wisdom.

Local communities are actively and creatively participating in the development of tourism.
Tourism is increasingly drawing on spiritual richness and local wisdom.
Tourism contributes to the well-being of local communities and the conservation of nature and the environment.
MSMEs and arts and culture communities are growing and contributing to an improvement in the standard of living for local communities.
Community life in Labuan Bajo is increasingly imbued with a spirit of harmonious, synodal, and inclusive fellowship.
Tourists experience a pleasant, interesting, and captivating travel atmosphere.

Take a step forward in faith.
Dance with culture.
Come together in love and unity.