SOCIAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION THROUGH EMPOWERMENT OF LOCAL WISDOMS

Mohammad Jamin

doi:10.20961/yustisia.v9i1.39430

Abstract

Ethnic, religious, race, and cultural diversity, as well as a large number of populations, are a treasure and strength for the Indonesian people, but on the other hand, it can be potential social conflicts that jeopardize the national integrity. Local wisdom which lived generations by generations and owned by the various local community is a social asset that can be empowered in social conflict resolution. Local wisdom plays an important role, not only preventing social conflict but also providing breakthroughs to resolve conflicts that occurred. Law Number 7 of 2012 concerning Social Conflicts Resolution which reflects the principles of local wisdom, it should be more empower those principles into reality. This empowerment can be done by actualizing the values and institutionalize of local wisdom in social conflict resolution that is implemented at the stages of conflict prevention, termination of the conflict, and restoration of post-conflict.

Highlights

Society and conflict are an inextricable phenomenon and a necessity that cannot be avoided as long as there has an interaction between people
Indonesia has a treasure of valuesand institutions of local wisdom that can be empowered and revitalized so that they can function more as guardians of harmony and rhythm in people’s lives for preventing conflicts
The diversity of local wisdom forms that are empirically live generations by generation and owned by each community at the local level is the social asset that can be empowered in the social conflict resolution

Summary

Introduction

Society and conflict are an inextricable phenomenon and a necessity that cannot be avoided as long as there has an interaction between people. With all the forces that exist in the country, they do not hesitate to use coercive and representative methods so that the people agree on the political form of government which is completely single and uniform. In a variety of violence that takes place, it often raises the presumption of the powerful invisible hand that plays a role in creating conflict and human tragedy. The escalation of social conflict becomes an irony with the fact that people in the archipelago have a lot of local wisdom that leads to a social life that is full of harmony, obedience, kinship, and the value of unity amid differences known as the slogan Bhineka Tunggal Ika, as mentioned in Article 36A of The Indonesian Constitution 1945. In line with the thinking above and the phenomenon of the existence of local wisdom that lives in the community, it is very urgent for examining the empowerment of local wisdom to resolve social conflict

Research Methods

Disentangling the Roots of Social Conflict

The Strengths of Local Wisdom in Social Conflict Resolution

The Role of Local Wisdom as Prevention and Resolution of Social Conflict

Conclusion