Research & Article

Group of tribes are important to the stability foundation and the economic benefit. The tribe’s people have important roles that benefit the country. They created Thailand’s heritages which are based on variety of cultural identities value including language, art, food, dress, beliefs, way of life and customs these cultures capital helps creating job opportunities for people, encouraging economic to the locals and government institutes. In addition, they have influence to set economic and social “goal”, policy formation and the plan to improvement the quality of life for the people in the local community by following the Thai Economic Movement Planning. The purposes of this study are to 1) study the economic, social and cultural contexts that influence by the tribes group; 2) Study strategies of knowledge management that exists in political system in finding ways to preserve tribes’ identity, restoration of customs and traditions through participation. 3) Develop a model to use for further development of the tribes group. The method of study is qualitative data collection including: 1) in-depth interview 2) focus group discussion and 3) participatory observation. The study results were; the local aggregation of people is the power of political activity for request and use the power of tribe aggregation to drive the government policy with the local people. The study has shown that the economy has improved the social capital by setting the cultural area groups, bringing culture into a development basis. As for society, it shown that molding the culture has strengthened the community, creating feeling of warmth and unity among the people of the community. Through “culture area-based approach”, it was a way to create profitable income that created job for the community and building the cultural tourism town.