Alternative social environment policy through educational values in Kafi’a’s customary speech to the kaledupa community of Wakatobi Island, Indonesia

Abstract

The research aims to reveal various expressions that contain educational values in the expression kafi’a (marriage) in the Kaledupa community of Wakatobi Island. The method used is descriptive qualitative to factually describe data on educational values in the expression. The technique used is the recording technique and note and introspection. The data analysis technique uses steps according to the sociology approach of language. The results of the data analysis showed that in the process of kafi’a starting from the pre-marriage stage to the post-marriage stage researchers found 30 expressions containing 3 types of educational values, namely the value of moral education, the value of religious education, and the value of social education. The researcher is very optimistic that the three values of education are very appropriate to be used as an alternative formulation of policy solutions for social disturbances.