Tumbutana” As an Oral Tradition of Hospitality and Character Education for the Arfak Tribes of West Papua

Abstract

This research is a qualitative research with an ethnographic approach to find out how Tradition can be used in Character Education. This research was conducted in the Arfak Mountains region of West Papua, which has a dance tradition TumbuTana as a hereditary cultural heritage. The Arfak tribe often carries out the “Tumbutana” tradition in every joint activity involving the wider community. This is one form of politeness and friendliness from the Arfak tribes. Research with a cultural approach is very interesting with the study of digging deeper into rules, values, narration of song lyrics and so on so that understanding the tribal tradition will be able to find the key to character education to build a society that is cultured and loves diversity. Indonesia, which is inhabited by many indigenous tribes, provides a variety of regional dances that are passed down from generation to generation. From this study it was found that traditional values have a very positive influence on the character education of the large tribe of Arfak. The Tumbu Tanah tradition provides education of character values as follows: Faithful; Honest; Open; care to each other; obedient; empathy; respect for the elder; respect for others; peace and responsibility