Changes in Traditional Houses Due to Fishermen's Habitus Changing into Farmers' Habitus in The Sentani Traditional Society in Jayapura Regency

Abstract

The traditional house of the Sentani indigenous people is an ancestral formation that aims to protect its citizens from outside intervention and defend themselves from tribal wars as a unit in forming a pattern of defense settlements. This ancestral formation has been maintained until now as the traditional house of the Sentani indigenous people, whose lives are fishermen and farmers. From the previous research, research on changes in the habitus of traditional communities, from living on the water to living on land, has never been carried out, especially among traditional indigenous peoples. No research reveals that changes in the habitus of traditional indigenous peoples still maintain a collective living space to protect indigenous peoples from life interventions from outside the traditional indigenous community. The research method used is a qualitative approach using the Intrinsic Case Study Approach model with the nature of descriptive research. Data analysis in this study used the method of Discovering Cultural Themes. The locus of this research is the two oldest villages written in historical references. The data collection method used observation, in-depth participant interviews, measurable pictures, and photographs. The results showed that the change in the habitus of fishermen to that of farmers is part of a cultural change caused by changes in resource capital affecting changes in the shape of traditional houses. These changes caused the types, methods, actors, places, and meanings of activities in the traditional houses of the Sentani indigenous people to change from life on the water to life on the ground, resulting in changes in the shape, ornament, space, position, and meaning of the traditional houses of the Sentani indigenous people.