Perception of place attachment between cultural heritage in Yogyakarta City

Yogyakarta City has a very special history, this city has a lot of cultural heritage, either tangible or intangible which are located on the philosophy axis. Along the philosophy axis can be found a lot of cultural heritage, especially inherited objects physically as important elements surrounded by other supporting elements. Tugu, Malioboro, Zero Kilometer, and South Square have public space as basic of taking the objects on the philosophy axis. The aims of this research were to examine the place attachment against the four objects with the perception of natives, newcomers, and tourists as respondents. This research was conducted using qualitative and quantitative methods. Qualitative methods were done by using descriptive approach to literature review and interviews, as well as field observation. The interviews towards informants, local communities, and tourists. Other qualitative methods by distributing of questionnaires involve the perception of local communities and tourists as much as 327 respondents. Quantitative methods by using a non-parametric test of different test with Mann-Whitney U for test whether there is a difference of perception between two samples. The results of this research, the four objects didn't yet an indication of the place attachment very agreement/high and there was no difference in perception between the natives and newcomers. The results of this research were expected to constitute an important aspect of the place attachment towards all the tangible cultural heritage assets for people against public space to appreciate and to love them as a part of the daily life. The hope of this research, Yogyakarta City could achieve as one of World Heritage City about the culture by UNESCO.