What is Traditional Leadership of Tatuha Luang?: The Ethnographic Studies at Diamond Mining in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to analyze the leadership of Tatuha Luang in diamond panning, to analyze the leadership of Tatuha Luang as the application of leadership based on Banjar cultural values, and to analyze the contribution of diamond panning to the community in Cempaka Village, Banjarbaru City, South Borneo.
 
 Design/Methodology/Approach: The research design used is qualitative research with an ethnographic approach as a knife of analysis. The key informants consisted of 3 key informants and 7 assistant informants. The data analysis of this ethnographic research refers to the Spradley model.
 
 Findings: Tatuha Luang's leadership has role as a director, mentor, and strategy for the success of diamond panning. A leader has the knowledge and skills to lead and behave as a role model for the community. Tatuha Luang's leadership plays important role, as a highly valued and respected figure by the community. Tatuha Luang has strong principles and convictions in living the optimism of success in running a diamond panning business. Tatuha Luang's leadership has a strong charisma to the community for the comprehension and behavior is consistent with those held by the Cempaka Banjarbaru people of South Kalimantan. It facilitates Tatuha Luang's leadership give advice that will be easily followed by the community. Tatuha Luang's leadership was given the position of coordinator regarding customary law, customs and habits of the community. The selection of informal leaders is determined past success and the feelings of sympathy and antipathy of a person or group towards him.
 
 Research limitations/Implications: The information sources are Limited on leadership bibliography based on local wisdom Tatuha Luang. This leadership contains the values ​​of collaboration and synergy of the balance of the real world and the supernatural which is unique and special
 
 Practical implications: The results of this research model can be implemented for the diamond mining community in Banjarbaru in particular and in South Kalimantan in general, and even other community organizations can adapt it for community organizations.
 
 Social Implications: The findings of the major proposition with a leadership model based on local wisdom which has universal values ​​and can be applied not only in the mining community but can be used in all lines of life in the wider social organization.
 
 Originality/Value: This study contribute to leadership theory based on local wisdom, especially in the findings of a conceptual model, namely the leadership of Tatuha Luang which prioritizes the local wisdom of the Banjarbaru community in particular and in South Kalimantan in general.