Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture (e-ISSN: 2460-4313; p-ISSN: 2339-1065) is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of local cultures. It covers a wide range of topics including history, politics, economics, linguistics, sociology, and anthropology within the frame work of local culture. The journal seeks to publish original and innovative research that utilizes interdisciplinary and comparative methods. In addition to research articles, it also welcomes progress reports on research projects, fieldwork notes, book reviews, and conference reports. Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture is published biannually, in June and December, by the Laboratorium Bantenologi of the State Islamic University (UIN) Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten. Submissions are accepted in English or Indonesian.
Saat menyebut Banten, paling tidak ada dua hal yang terekam dalam memori kolektif masyarakat. Pertama, Banten adalah salah satu bekas wilayah kerajaan di antara beberapa kerajaan Islam di nusantara yang memiliki peradaban terbuka dan dijadikan lokus persinggahan tidak saja oleh para pelancong lokal tapi juga oleh para pemburu kapital ekonomi dunia dan penjajah; kedua adalah cerita soal elite sosial lokal yaitu kiyai dan jawara yang memiliki pengaruh besar di masyarakat. Paper ini akan mencoba mengeksplorasi pandangan masyarakat di Kalimantan Barat terhadap orang Banten dan cara orang Banten mempertahankan eksistensinya. Meskipun orang Banten di Kalimantan Barat sudah hidup sejak ratusan tahun dan dikenal sebagai etnis minoritas yang hidupnya berbaur dengan etnis lain (tidak berkelompok), artikel ini mengungkap bahwa keberadaan mereka tetap dipandang sebagai orang magis-religious, dalam arti bahwa mereka mempunyai pemahaman agama yang tinggi, berakhlakul karimah, dan mempunyai kekuatan ghaib (magis) yang bisa meringankan setiap persoalan hidup dengan kekuatan supranatural. Di sisi lain, orang-orang Banten di Kalimantan Barat juga masih menggunakan magis. Hal ini karena dua hal, pertama magis masih dipercaya sebagai kekuatan supranatural yang bisa membantu memudahkan mereka dalam setiap kesulitan; kedua, beban psikologis yang melekat pada diri orang Banten yang selalu dianggap sebagai orang yang mempunyai kekuatan magis oleh masyarakat Kalimantan Barat. Adapun pemahaman keagamaan orang Banten berasal dari kepercayaan mereka terhadap kekuatan magis. Praktik-praktik ritual magi orang Banten dilakukan dengan cara beribadah kepada Tuhan yang maha Esa dan berpantang untuk tidak melakukan dosa besar agar kekuatan magis yang mereka miliki tetap berfungsi. Berangkat dari hasil penelitian di atas, peneliti beranggapan bahwa etnis Banten, meskipun merupakan etnis minoritas di Kalimantan Barat dan tidak banyak disebut oleh para peneliti sebagai etnis tersendiri, mereka mempunyai kontribusi yang cukup besar dalam pengembangan Islam dan mempunyai dan kesadaran etnik yang tinggi sehingga tidak mengalami konflik etnik sebagaimana etnik lain di Kalimantan Barat.
Copyright (c) 2024 H.S. Suhaedi (Author)
Sex Education in Pesantren: The Study of Kitab on Sex Manuals in Pesantren in Bandung, West Java
This paper examines the sexual agency exercised by married Muslim women in Bandung, Indonesia, in their marital relationships. Dominant discourses teach that women should obey their husbands, and most women believe that they should serve their husbands sexually whenever required. Sex is a taboo subject and women should not discuss sex or initiate sex. Their sexual desire is not acknowledged. However, in-depth interviews with 42 married women, and some husbands, found that a few exceptional women managed to challenge or negotiate around these dominant discourses. The paper examines their exercise of agency with regard to the initiation of sex, positions and practices that they prefer, their ability to say no to sex, ways to avoid having sex and their demand for mutual pleasure in sex.
Jinn and Hot Money: Morality and Cultural Risks in Bombana Gold Mining, Eastern Indonesia
This study discusses the notion of Jin and Hot money as moral emblems to predict morality and public health risk in Bombana, gold mining areas. The result of this study indicates that good jinn control people to prevent from negative behavior and thinking. It means that good jinn contributes the positive consequences for both individual and community. On the other hand, the bad jin brings negative consequences. In addition, the morality standard for hot money and bad jinn are associated with risks condition and their impacts for individual as well as community.
Copyright (c) 2024 Fitrilailah Mokui, Omar Pidani (Author)
One House Two Temples: The Ambivalence of Local Chinese Buddhism in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
The Chinese community in Yogyakarta is used to culturally divided into two groups: peranakan and totok. The peranakan were Chinese with local roots. This group was usually influenced by local Javanese culture. Their language also often used Javanese language elements. Mosttotok were Chinese immigrants and their immediate descendants who were less acculturated and more strongly oriented towards China. They spoke various Chinese dialects at home rather than speaking Indonesian. This paperobserves these two Chinese communities in Yogyakarta, particularly with reference to the Gondoman district, one of the largest areas with Chinese ethnic population. I emphasize here that Gondomanan klenteng is an ambivalence worship place. Klenteng and Buddha Prabhavihara are two temples that having different rituals and different religious teachings. The Gondomanan klenteng has been obligating klenteng members to pray to the ancestor, whereas the same members have also practiced Buddhism in the Buddha Prabhavihara, in the backside of the klenteng. The two templesrepresent two religions; klenteng indicates traditional religion that is practiced by their ancestors, while vihara is a worship place that implements some Buddhism obligations. This fact indicates an ambivalent worship place.
Copyright (c) 2024 Mohammad Rokib (Author)
Pesantren, Madrasa, and the Future of Islamic Education in Indonesia
This article delineates the development of pesantren and madrasa as a very significant part of Islamic education in Indonesia. In doing so, I explore three points related to the development. Firstly, there is an ancient tradition of accommodation in Indonesian Islamic education world. This is seen in the foundation myths that traditional pesantren use to understand their role in society. Secondly, there is a desire to modernize and to meet the modern needs of both students and society while maintaining firm roots in traditional Islamic education. It must be an on-going ‘evolutionary’ process. Thirdly, pesantren people have rejected the sharia state, the khilafa, the use of violence, and narrow understandings of what the nation should be. They have worked hard to distance themselves from others that seek to cloak themselves in their legitimacy. Therefore, I would argue that the pesantren and other forms of Islamic education will contribute to the future of Indonesia as a plural, peaceful and democratic society.
Copyright (c) 2024 Ronald Lukens-Bull (Author)
The Persistence of Civil Militias in Banten and Lampung, Indonesia
This study focuses on how civil militias in Banten and Lampung do their persistence in society. Civil militias play significant role in society not only as being intermediaries between civil societies themselves and the government, but also as a mediator between the different political levels of society: In addition, the existence of martial arts groups give contributions as initiation bases for the activist masses. This study on civil militias also shows how political parallel networks compete for power, beyond the parties and political chairs.
Copyright (c) 2024 Gabriel Facal (Author)
The Fabrication of Local Identity: Marginalization of the Indigenous Dayak Beverage in Central Kalimantan
Since the decentralization era that started in 1999, the need to search for local identity in various regions in Indonesia gradually emerged. Local elites have been pursuing some specific characteristics to legitimize their indigeneity and authenticity which are useful to strengthen their local power grip. The production of local identity (e.g., adat; tradition) was transformed into a key factor for the success of a local government in the transition of political and economic power in Indonesia (Bourchier, 2007; Erb, 2007). In that cultural production, a particular ethnic tradition was often fabricated into a binary dichotomy; “good” and “bad” to come up with a “true local identity.” Within this scheme, a tradition considered “bad” is rejected. Baram, a traditional Dayak beverage containing alcohol, faces this kind of rejection. Even though it is inherently a part of the Dayak culture, evidence of its existence is systematically deleted in the public domain such as museums, books, and public documents and other local publications. Baram is perceived as a form of bad habit and also is thought to be irrelevant to the contemporary Dayak identity that is struggling to eliminate the stereotype of being uncivilized. This paper argues that the marginalization of baram not only is a matter of politics but also is related to current social and cultural contestation in Central Kalimantan, Palangkaraya in particular. The analysis in this paper focuses on the relation of the Dayak as indigenous people of Central Kalimantan and migrants from other Kalimantan regions and outside of Kalimantan. The data were collected during my short ethnographic research in Palangkaraya and Katingan Regency, Central Kalimantan in 2015. Baram is suspected of being a source of overconsumption of alcohol that triggers violence and criminal actions in both urban and rural communities. Such a formulation is common in the mass media to describe the negative effects of baram. The marginalization of baram continues and has escalated into a more serious matter as the local regime now labels it as illegal good. It is, thus, alienated in its own home.
Copyright (c) 2024 Sofyan Ansori (Author)
Preserving Traditional Islamic Thought and Practice: The Codified SūrahYāsīn and Taḥlīl Texts in Indonesia
This paper tries to construct the role of the codified SūrahYāsīn and Taḥlīl texts in Indonesia.The present paper also attempts to investigate the sequential aspects of the transmission of sūrahYāsīn from the single sūrah until it is compiled with taḥlīl texts and become widely used among traditionalist Muslims in Indonesia. The paper provides the faḍā’il al-a‘māl based on some muslim scholars. Some important questions will be dealt here, namely: why does sūrah Yāsīn has a special position? How was sūrahYāsīn and taḥlīl texts compiled in Indonesia? In this paper, I argue that the sūrahYāsīn compiled with taḥlīl texts is sort of textual forms which preserve the traditional Islamic thought and practices in Indonesia.
Provisional Notes on How “Hilarious” Living Under ShariaLaw (The Case of Aceh)
Drawing upon anthropological theory of resistance and testing its limits, I will present a closer observation on how dissenting voices to the state project of Sharia in contemporary Aceh look on the ground. Without thereby renouncing its violent effects, some ethnographic stories I recount in this writing will reveal how the implementation of Sharia in contemporary Aceh has created inherently amusing situations and how it has occasionally become a humor producing machine.
Shaykh Yusuf of Macassar; Scholar, Sufi, National Hero: Towards Constructing Local Identity and History at the Cape
This paper focuses on the Origins and Malaya presence of Islam in both ritual practices and daily life of modern day Islam as practiced by Muslims in Cape Town, South Africa. It also tries to capture the presence of Shaykh Yusuf s short time spent at the Cape, 1694 - 1699, and how this period of his life gives expression to local history, storytelling, tradition and meaning to Islam in contemporary Cape Town.
Copyright (c) 2024 Armien Cassiem (Author)
Seeking for Berkah: the Celebration of Kiai Slamet
One of many annual traditional Javanese ceremony for celebrating the new year is Kirab Kiai Slamet. This ceremony was held in Surakarta, Central Java by one of greatest Javanese Kingdom, Keraton Surakarta Hadiningrat. A thousand visitors who have come from all over of java just to see this ceremony bring various motives. This paper will elaborate how the perspective of Javanese people interprets their attendance on Kirab Kiai Slamet? One of their motives is berkah, then how they perceive this concept of „ngalap berkah‟? While berkah is one of the most prevalent religious practices in Indonesia, there are various meaning on it from a diverse group. In an effort to reveal the various interpretation of the concept of „berkah‟, this paper offers an alternative perspective of the study of religion. Because the study of religion is more dominated by world religion paradigm that rigidly defines „religion‟ as the structured form of religious tradition, an alternative perspective will be needed. After elaborating the experiment of Kirab Kiai Slamet and framed by some theories of religions, this paper will show how „indigenous religion paradigm‟ have a positive contribution to the enriching of theories of religions in contemporary issues.
Copyright (c) 2024 Fardan Mahmudatul Imamah (Author)
Past and Present: Momentous Events that Shape the Indigenous Moroneno of Bombana District, Indonesia
This research paper aims at providing a review of the literature and media coverage on the ethno-history of the Indigenous Moronene community. Thus far, there are less than a handful of sources on the ethnolinguistic identity and society that spread across the Rumbia Plain, Polea or Poleang coastal region and Kabaena Island in the District of Bombana, Indonesia. The review consists of the major events, which introduced external shocks to different parts of the Moronene society. It begins with the history of the ethnic settlement on the mainland of Southeast Celebes, locus of its ethno-linguistic relations with other ethnic groups in Celebes and important ethnical structures and attributes. Furthermore, it continues with a description of the time line of major events that affect the society from the moment the country gained its independency in 1945 until the present time. We argue that ethnic and linguistic characteristics as well as these major events shape not only people’s collective actions and memory, but also their current identity, structure and patterns of social and environmental relationships. Linking this information into discussion of current social and development issues in the region is therefore a necessity.
Fieldwork Notes Gender and Social Assessment (Study of Micro Hydro Power Plants Development based on Local Natural Resources in Mamasa-West Sulawesi)
On August 2013, researcher team of IPB who had been doing prefeasibility study of Green Prosperity Program, they were visited a Mamasa District, West Sulawesi Province2. Gender and Social Assessment (GSA) researchers in this research are: Dr. Titik Sumarti, Dr. Sofyan Sjaf and Muhammad Syafar, M.Kesos. The journey from Bogor City to Mamaju District (West Sulawesi) by aircraft, our destination visit several sub districts of Mamasa by car (Toyota Hilux), they are: Bambang, Mambi, Mamasa, Pana, Sumarorong. We had been going across in the street of Mamasa upper land, which are consist mountains, rivers, forest, agriculture and cascade.
Copyright (c) 2024 Muhammad Syafar (Author)
From Arabic Style toward Javanese Style: Comparison between Accents of Javanese Recitation and Arabic Recitation
Moslem scholars have accepted maqamat in reciting the Quran otherwise they have not accepted macapat as Javanese style in reciting the Quran such as recitation in the State Palace in commemoration of Isra` Miraj 2015. The paper uses a phonological approach to accents in Arabic and Javanese style in reciting the first verse of Surah Al-Isra`. The method used here is analysis of suprasegmental sound (accent) by using Speech Analyzer program and the comparison of these accents is analyzed by descriptive method. By doing so, the author found that: first, there is not any ideological reason to reject Javanese style because both of Arabic and Javanese style have some aspects suitable and unsuitable with Ilm Tajweed; second, the suitability of Arabic style was much than Javanese style; third, it is not right to reject reciting the Quran with Javanese style only based on assumption that it evoked mistakes and errors; fourth, the acceptance of Arabic style as the art in reciting the Quran should rised acceptance of the Javanese style also. So, rejection of reciting the Quran with Javanese style was not due to any reason and it could not be proofed by any logical argument.
An Analysis of Illocutionary Speech Acts in the Book“Paparaton: Legenda Ken Arok dan Ken Dedes”
This study aims at finding out how the Searle’s illocutionary speech acts are most frequently used and performed in the book “Paparaton: Legenda Ken Arok dan Ken Dedes”. The researcher uses qualitative method by collecting data from reading the book, analyzing the dialogues of each characters, reading the script and doing library research. The total of the classification illocutionary speech acts according to Searle are 39 speech acts. The result of analysis shows that there are 9 commisives of illocutionary speech acts (23%). There are 9 representatives of illocutionary speech acts (23%). There are 7 expressive of illocutionary speech acts (18%). There are 14 directives of illocutionary speech acts (38%). It is not found declaration of illocutionary acts in this book. The study also reveals the importance of illocutionary speech acts in keeping the flow of storyline of the book. This study expected to give some useful insights in understanding what illocutionary speech acts.
Paparaton “Legenda Ken Dedes dan Ken Arok”
Copyright (c) 2024 Rochmat Budi Santosa (Author)
Breaking Patriarchal Gender Stereotype. Being A FemaleRector of the Institut Seni Budaya Indonesia/ISBI Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
Patriarchy is a system that put adult men in the central or the most important position, while women and children are put in relation to the interest of the patriarch (adult men). The over generalised belief (stereotype) of women in patriarchal system is that women are subordinate to men and be housewife who serves her husband, does houseworks and looks after her children. This paper will elaborate the case study of a couple who break this patriarchal gender stereotype, in which the husband flexibly changes his role to adapt and support his wife‟s career as the Rector of ISBI. This case study shows that not all men are patriarchal and that education can be a powerful tool to break patriarchal gender relation both in private and public spheres.
Copyright (c) 2024 Nina Nurmila (Author)
Wetu Telu in Bayan Lombok: Dialectic of Islam and Local Culture
Islam reached Lombok Island in the sixteenth century, approximately in 1545, which was brought by SunanGiri, the son of SunanPrapen, one of the prominent Islamic preachers known as Wali Songo, through an expedition from Java. Prior to its arrival in the Island, according to some historians, the indigenous Sasak (the indigenous people of Lombok) embraced a traditional belief known as Boda. Historically, since its establishment, Islam has perpetually been expanding despite facing some distinct and contradictory values of local tradition and culture, which leads to a kind of dialectical process and turns in what is known as local Islam such as Islam WetuTelu in Bayan, West Lombok. This article is aimed at revealing the historical root of religious identity of Sasak community. The historical sketch of its religious identity produces a combination of traditional, cultural and religious values of the comers with those of the indigenous people in the past, WetuTelu religion. Present Muslims in Lombok assume that the existence of traditional Islam is due to an incomplete process of Islamization in the Island.
Copyright (c) 2024 Muhammad Harfin Zuhdi (Author)
Moral Values in Religious Myths of Bantenese Society
This article discusses moral values in various religious myths spread on several areas of Banten. How Bantenese society undertands and believes in religious myths that spread out and are still maintained from generations to generations becomes one of the main focuses of this article; besides, it also tries to analyze the meaning and functions of religious myths for Bantenese society; and the moral values contained in religious myths of Bantenese society. This article is a field research using ethnographical method based on anthropological perspective. Library research, participant-observation, and depth-interview are methodes used to collect the data. Religious myths are one of Islamic literatures that still survive in Banten up to now. For Bantenese society, religious myths are considered having moral message and moral values. Religious myths, in some cases, also play significant roles and function for Bantenese society because they frequently contain moral values. Hence, many Bantenese people still maintain and transmit these religious myths to the young generation.
Copyright (c) 2024 Ayatullah Humaeni (Author)
Magic and the Communist Revolt of 1926 in Banten: a Study on the Script of K.H. Muqri Labuan
Studies on magic in civil revolts in Indonesia are remarkably scarce. The use of magic in Bantenese revolts are presented in the works of Kartodirdjo (1966) and Williams (1982,1990). This article explains several aspects of magic such as the form, the ritual, and thesources related to magic sourced from the Script of K.H. Muqri Labuan, one of the important figures in the communist revolt of 1926 in Banten, by using philological and historical approaches. The Script was written byK.H. Muqri during his escapee from Surabaya to Mecca when the Dutch colonial could defeat his rebellion in Labuan. His script is 17,5x21 cm consisted of 540pages written in Jawiand Arabic. It mostly contains the magical formula and wird of severaltariqa. It also comprises his genealogy, the magical licence (ijâzah)he obtained, his journey notes to Mecca, his activities during living in Mecca, and the list of his disciples.
Copyright (c) 2024 Helmy Faizi Bahrul Ulumi (Author)
Sundanese Sufi and Religious Diversity in the Archipelago: The Pluralistic Vision of Haji Hasan Mustapa (1852-1930)
The paper aims to analyze moderate understanding of Haji Hasan Mustapa on religious diversity in the archipelago. He is a greatest Sundanese poet who has studied in Mecca and served as Hoofd Penghulu of Kotaraja Aceh and Bandung in the colonial era. This study is focused on sufism and religious diversity, Mustapa‟s scholarship, and on his pluralistic vision, using intertextual studies and semantic analysis. This research argues that Mustapa has tolerance and moderate understanding similarly with Ibn „Arabi‟s thought. He uses kernel and husk as symbolic images which expressed using natural richness of Sundanese culture for demonstrating his religious conviction that rasa is the kernel of all religions. This study is significant for strengthening the discourse of religious pluralism from sufi perspective in the archipelago which cannot be separated from the chain of Islamic intellectual network. This research has also a significant impact on Chittick‟s assumption about the depth of sufi poetry which mostly reveal their tolerance views on religious diversity living in harmony.
Copyright (c) 2024 Jajang A Rohmana (Author)
History of the Moluccan's Cloves as a Global Commodity
This paper focuses on the history of spice trade in Moluccas. Using two main approaches of firstly, Braudel, I intend to examine the histoty of spice trade in Moluccas in the 16th century in relation with the changing of the structure of economy that affected the social and political relations of the Moluccans. Secondly, applying Wallerstein approaches, I find out that trading activities from the 16th century until today have created a wide gap between post-colonial Moluccas and the Europeans. To conclude, I argue that economic activities have always been accompanied by forcing political power, such as monopoly and military power. Consequently, they have created unequal relations between the state and society.
Copyright (c) 2024 Hatib Abdul Kadir (Author)
Travel of Bonpo Gods from the Eurasian Borderlands to theTibetan Culture Area and the Borderlands of North-eastIndia
Popular portrayals often depict Hindu deities as exclusive to Hinduism, viewed primarily as a religion of the Indian subcontinent. However, this perspective oversimplifies Hinduism, ignoring the significant exchange of gods and beliefs with other religions. This challenges the idea of Hinduism as a closed system and raises difficulties in defining it, as no single definition exists. Pre-modern India had extensive cultural exchanges with Central and Southeast Asia, evident in religion and culture. Nationalist and Eurocentric histories have shaped modern views, often ignoring earlier influences and portraying religions like Hinduism and Buddhism as homogenous. For instance, in Sri Lankan Buddhist temples, one can still find Hindu deities like Ganesha and Karthikeya, highlighting the fluidity of religious boundaries.
Back Door Java: Negara, Rumah Tangga, dan Kampung di Keluarga Jawa. by Jan Newberry. Jakarta: KPG, 2013
A state is often described as something complex that includes the executive, legislative, judicative, its people who belong to various religions and ethnicities with diverse social-economic problems, and its relation with other states such as sharing socio-economic borders, and other affairs. In this book Jan Newberry attempts to investigate a state through the eyes of mothers who get involved in the Indonesian Family Welfare Movement, known in Indonesia as Pembina Kesejahteraan Indonesia (PKK), in a village in Yogyakarta called Rumah Putri.
Copyright (c) 2024 Ade Jaya Suryani (Author)
Character Education Value from Ten Folktales in Indonesia as Cyber Literature
In the development of technology, all aspects experience the same development, including literature. Technology had greatly influenced the production and reception of literature. Changes in literary works by utilizing current technological media can also be called cyber literature. However, the ease of technology might lead problems. The teacher who would use cyber literature as learning material took it without any guideline on what is the value that existed in the cyberliterature. So that this study aimed to analyze character education that appears in folklore cyber literature in Indonesia. The results of this study will be a guide for high school English teachers in choosing what characters to use in narrative learning using folklore. The approach used in this research was a descriptive qualitative approach. The data source of this research was cyber literature in the form of folklore. The selection of the title of folklore in Indonesia was based on the results of a poll from the SINDO newspaper which found that there were 10 popular folk tales. The result of the study showed that from 10 the most popular folklore in the internet, 6 out of 18 characters existed in the story. They were Responsible, hard work, honesty, self-reliance, creative, and love country. Even though, the value mostly based on the protagonist of the story, we could also see the contra value that promoted by the antagonist, such as dishonesty.
Copyright (c) 2024 Imam Santosa, Lutfi, Kheryadi, Yulian Dinihari, Wuriy Handayani, Sufi Alawiyah (Author)
Tradition Multicultural Society Religion in Serang City
This article examines the characteristics and cultural identity, as well as the socio-religious rituals of the people of Serang city. The research used is anthropological ethnography method. In analyzing the data, the researcher used a functional-structural approach. The results showed that although the people in Serang city were categorized as multicultural society, they still carried out their religious traditions. There are several things that affect this harmony, including the factor of religious understanding of each individual, educational background and social relations of the community. For the residents of Serang city, the distinctive characteristics wrapped in tradition have a positive meaning as local wisdom and have religious values that are still maintained today.
Copyright (c) 2024 Rt. Bai Rohimah, Achmad Hufad, Suroso Mukti Leksono (Author)
Glocalization of Bull Racing: A Program for Preservation Kerapan Sapi as Madurese Local Wisdom
The research-based on three backgrounds such as the competence and experience of researchers related to the context of local wisdom research; the potency of local wisdom in Madura; and the researchers are team teaching of the course physics local wisdom for Undergraduate Program of Physics education. Kerapan sapi is one of Madura's local cultures, which combines art, tradition, and competition. This type of research is a mixed-method with exploratory sequential design. The implementation of this research was carried out in Tengket Village, Bangkalan Regency. Data collection was collected based on observation, documentation studies, interviews, FGD, and questionnaires. The main object of this research is several Kerapan Sapi teams in Tengket Village, especially Trobos Sakti. Several factors for becoming the Kerapan Sapi champion were the division of team tasks, strategies to win, and support from the village government. Trobos Sakti divides his team's tasks into three parts: maintenance, competition, and owner sections; each part has its role. Trobos Sakti has several agendas and strategies for his race cows, such as feeding the cows with grass, exercising, bathing the cows, cleaning the cows' cages, and joining several competitions from regency level to national level. The contribution of Kerapan sapi to education is to open the understanding and application of Kerapan sapi culture to study material, especially physics material, in senior high school.
Copyright (c) 2024 Nadi Suprapto, Suliyanah, Utama Alan Deta, Imam Sya’roni, Khoirun Nisa (Author)
Pangkak Gasing: Tools of Social Interaction of The Community of Children and Adolescents in Maintaining Malay Culture Sambas
This article is based on the results of in-depth research on the pangkak gasing and social interactions of Sambas Malay children and adolescents. Pangkak gasing is a traditional game that is currently running lively in the rural district of Sambas. In addition to preserving the culture of the pangkak gasing, it is also a means of friendship for fellow Malay Sambas. The presence of children and adolescents in apangkak gasing game of forming a habitus in the community arena where social interaction takes place. Social interaction in the field of pangkak gasing not only by direct contact during the game but also penetrated in the virtual world or social media. New media in social interaction, especially in the field of pangkak gasing make social media as a tool to interact where agents have never met and started meeting in the real world. This article discusses how the pangkak gasing affect the social interaction of Sambas Malay children and adolescents. This research uses a qualitative method with a sociology approach. Data was obtained through observations and interviews with Sambas Malay children and adolescents who participated routinely in the pangkak gasing game.
Copyright (c) 2024 Bayu Suratman, Nur Hamzah (Author)
Ecological Element in Oral Literature Wayang Jek Dong Malang Style
Literature as part of the representation of human life is always tied to human culture and environment. The problems raised by writers in literary works are part of the relity that occurs in the environment where they live. No exception with oral literature. As a traditional literary genre, oral literature has a dependence on ecological elements that exist in the universe. Plants an animal, for example, have a role in the literary context as part of the universe. Plants and animals, for example, have a role in the literary context as part of the puppetry element of the wayang Jek Dong Malang style. Oral literature contained in pupetry jek dong Malangan style, for example, in practice by the puppeteer always involves ecological elements. Through the study of an ecocritical perspective, it can be seen that the presence of oral literture in Malangan style jek dong puppetry is always thick in the image of nature such as Pandawa Tani, Wader Bang Sisik Kencana, Wedus Putih Ngamen, and so on. The involvement of thes ecological elements shows a strong image of the nature, and culture of the Malang people.
Copyright (c) 2024 Astrid Wangsagirindra Pudjastawa, Yudit Perdananto (Author)
Ritual Daur Hidup di Kampung Naga, Desa Neglasari, Kec. Salawu Kab. Tasikmalaya Jawa Barat
Jawa Barat adalah salah satu dari provinsi di Indonesia yang memiliki kekayaan budaya yang sangat beragam. Kekayaan budaya di Tatar Sunda (Jawa Barat) terpusat pada beberapa wilayah yang menjadi konsentrasi komunitas adat, dari mulai wilayah timur Ciamis, hingga ke Sukabumi. Masing-masing wilayah memiliki kekhasan budaya yang berbeda antara yang satu dengan yang lainnya. Salah satu dari kebudayaan yang hingga ini masih ada dan dipertahankan adalah Kampung Naga, ia adalah sebuah kampung adat yang memegang teguh tradisi leluhur (karuhun) yang mereka warisi dari generasi ke generasi. Salah satu yang menarik dari komunitas Kampung Naga adalah ritual daur hidup (life cyrcle) yang mereka laksanakan tanpa dipengaruhi oleh budaya luar. Artikel ini memaparkan ritual daur hidup yang dilaksanakan oleh komunitas adat Kampung Naga. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah dengan metode etnografi, dimana penulis terlibat langsung dalam proses ritual yang mereka laksanakan. Observasi, wawancara mendalam dan partisipasi dalam setiap kegiatan adalah tekhnik yang digunakan untuk mendapatkan data yang dapat dipertanggunghjawabkan. Penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa ritual daru hidup yang dilaksanakan oleh komunitas adat Kampung Naga meliputi ritual, ibu mengandung, kelahiran anak, khitanan, gusaran, perkawinan, dan selamatan bagi orang yang telah meninggal dunia. Ritual yang dilaksanakan oleh komunitas ini berasal dari kepercayaan lama Sunda dengan dikombinasikan dengan budaya Islam yang masuk belakangan.
Copyright (c) 2024 Abdurrahman Misno Bambang Prawiro (Author)
International Symposium on Religious Literature and Heritage
This international Symposium is a bi-annual symposium held by Centre for Research and Development of Religious Literature and Heritage. The theme of this year symposium focuses on: “Empowering Civilization through Religious Heritage”.