Macapat Song Research Articles

Pendidikan Karakter dalam Tembang Macapat Mijil

The purpose of this study is to interpret the array of macapat songs, especially Mijil songs as a support for character education. The type of research used is library research. To sharpen the analysis of descriptive qualitative methods, content analysis techniques are used, namely scientific analysis based on the content of messages in communication. Message content in communication. The results of this study are in the form of character education values that exist in the mijil song, these values include being smart, humble, yielding, not arguing, simplicity, and not gossiping. The community and education actors can explore cultural values or local wisdom to provide a stimulus in learning with different, interesting, and fun nuances.

CHARACTER VALUES OF INDEPENDENCE, HARD WORK, CREATIVITY, AND DEMOCRACY IN SERAT WEDATAMA

Rapid technological advancements facilitate human progress towards various objectives, but they also have a drawback, namely the emergence of instant culture. All things desire to be quick, simple, helpful, and satisfying. A culture that is averse to effort, care, and empathy will become hardworking due to this character. The life guidance derived from regional culture and beliefs must be rebuilt. A literary piece called Serat Wedatama, which takes the form of a macapat song, contains moral lessons. It is essential to continuously work towards fostering self-discipline, perseverance, creativity, independence, and democracy founded on sincerity, patience, and sincerity. It is possible to purify the heart and mind through selfless work, which affects behaviour that is not constrained by professional outcomes. An incentive to put in the extra effort will be a disciplined character that has become ingrained. Genuinely working hard and dedicating all of one's creations and emotions will yield satisfying results. The ability or self-intuition that generates creative ideas will awaken with sincere effort. A sense of self-confidence fostered by creative ideas can help someone become independent. Coexisting in various societal contexts is also a necessary component of independence. Humans must cooperate while putting mutual respect and appreciation first in order to establish democracy in a society with a variety of conditions and characters.

Pelatihan tembang macapat dengan pendekatan langsung di SD Kanisius Sorowajan Yogyakarta

The lack of understanding about macapat songs among teachers and the lack of an effective learning model for teaching macapat songs to students was the background of this activity. This activity aimed to improve the ability of macapat songs with a direct approach for teachers at SD Kanisius Sorowajan Yogyakarta. The direct learning approach was an approach that provided opportunities for students to learn by observing, researching, and imitating the actions exemplified by the teacher in class. The ability of macapat songs was described in four indicators, namely scope, preservation, notation, and classification of macapat songs. The method used in this activity was a participatory assessment involving 11 teachers from SD Kanisius Sorowajan Yogyakarta. The results of the activity showed 1) an increase in pretest to posttest scores of 76.70%, 2) a significant effect on the teacher's macapat song ability (p < 0.05) which was included in the large effect category (r = 0.9552), and 3 ) a high level of effectiveness of the training implemented (n-gain score 76.09%).

Desain E-modul Mata Kuliah Seni Tembang Macapat bagi Mahasiswa MBKM Lintas Program Studi

Cross-study courses are one of the programs of the Independent Campus Free Learning Curriculum. One of the courses offered across study programs by the Javanese Language and Literature Education Study program is the Macapat Song Arts Course. As a beginner learner in a song course, students will of course experience several problems, namely:1) The tone in the song is different from the tone of modern music (diatonic) which is usually heard and sung. Songs use pentatonic, so adjustments need to be made. 2) There are two types of tunings that students must also master, namely pelog and slendro with a different tone too. 3) Men's and women's voices have different ranges so they require different treatment. 4) the types of cengkok/types of songs in Macapat vary greatly, making it more difficult to memorize. In effort to ensure that students outside the Javanese Language and Literature Education study program need special treatment so that it is easier for them to take courses. Researchers in this case will design an Electronic Module for the Song Arts Course so that it can help students outside the Java study program learn Macapat songs. This research using the R&D Level 1 model, namely researching, producing designs, but not testing and producing them. Validation carried out by Javanese language material experts with a score of 3.7 and validation by design experts received a score of 3.78.
 Keywords: E Module, Macapat Song Art, MBKM Lintas Prodi

Barrier Analysis in Implementing Macapat Song Learning as Cultural Preservation

This research examines the factors that hinder the implementation of Macapat song learning in junior high schools. This research used a descriptive qualitative approach. Data collection techniques in this research used observation, interview, and documentation techniques. The data was collected and analyzed using data analysis by Miles and Huberman (1994), which began with data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion. The validity of the data used the triangulation data method. The research results show that the implementation of Macapat song learning in junior high school is hampered by two factors: internal and external factors originating from students and teachers. The internal factors inhibiting students include low student interest, students' lack of mastery of Javanese vocabulary, and the assumption that learning Macapat songs is less critical. The internal factors inhibiting teachers include Javanese language teachers who tend not to have a Javanese language educational background, teachers who do not master the material of Macapat songs, less innovative learning methods, and teachers who have difficulty implementing the emancipated curriculum in learning. The external factors inhibiting students include device usage factors, family factors, and inadequate internet networks. The external factors inhibiting teachers include insufficient allocation of learning hours and lack of infrastructure that supports Macapat song learning. This research expects students to grow their interest in learning Macapat songs to maintain and preserve Javanese culture. With students' seriousness towards the Macapat song learning material, students will have a sense of love for Indonesian culture.

Philosophical Values in Tembang Macapat

The Macapat song is a legacy of our ancestors which is full of beauty and philosophical values. In today's millennial era, the Macapat song is increasingly unknown to the public. The purpose of writing this paper is to reveal the philosophical values contained in the macapat song. The research location is in the city of Surakarta as the center and developer of Javanese culture, especially the macapat song. Data collection techniques by observing, listening, and taking notes. Data analysis used a qualitative descriptive method, which was to explain the philosophical value of the macapat song, which consisted of 11 (eleven) songs. Philosophical values describe the journey of the human life cycle from birth to death, obeying regulations and always maintaining the beauty of the universe.

Baneswa: Innovation of Introductory Media of Javanese Culture for Children Based on Pop-Up Book

Javanese culture is very diverse, and local wisdom is important to be preserved. Children are the next generation of the nation who need to know their culture. Implementation of the introduction of culture can be done through learning arts and culture in elementary schools. The introduction of culture to children can be done with certain media that are interesting for children. One of them is in the form of a Pop Up book which is developed according to children's development. This study discusses the development of the Baneswa Pop Up Book which is used as a medium for learning the introduction of Javanese culture through folklore, wayang art, traditional dances, batik diversity, batik writing skills, macapat songs, and Javanese letters. Media development is carried out in several stages, including Analyze, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The Baneswa Pop Up Book was developed as a cultural learning medium for children. The design is developed with images that are equipped with an audio-visual QR Code whose use is collaborated with mobile devices. The development of a Pop Up Book that is integrated with technological developments has become an innovation of cultural recognition media. The children gave a good response. They are enthusiastic about learning and getting to know the culture.

Pembinaan Pupuh Macepat “Surki” pada Sekaa Pasantian Swasti Marga Brata di Desa Selisihan Klungkung

“Surki” is an acronym for the word sasur siki. Sasur (pasasur) means thirty-five, and asiki means one. Therefore, in this context, pasasur asiki is 36 pupuh (traditional poem) verses/stanzas containing the implementation of 36 items of Pancasila (Five Principles of Indonesia). It is summarized into seven types of pupuh/macapat songs by an art maestro, I Made Sija, namely pupuh Sinom, Pucung, Ginada, Durma, Maskumambang, Pangkur, and Dandang. What makes it unique is that the lyrics contain Pancasila’s noble values, namely divinity, humanity, unity, democracy, and justice, applied in thirty-six pupuh verses that adopt 36 Pancasila values. During Suharto’s New Order in Indonesia, this activity belongs to the Program of Guidelines for the Appreciation and Practice of Pancasila (P4). Then in PKM, the development of the Macapat songs focused on identifying the importance of fostering the Pupuh Macepat “surki” as a medium for guiding Pancasila values for the people of Selisihan Klungkung village. In addition, there has never been a pupuh containing 36 points of Pancasila values and the preservation of the “surki” pupuh by the Pasantian group of people in Selisihan Klungkung village.

Ki Hajar Dewantoro's Tri Nga Concept in Learning the Macapat Song to Aba Ngabean 2 Kindergarten Children

Background: Good citizens are people who want to continue the heritage culture of their ancestors. Cultural values ??are very useful for life in the future.
 Aim: This study aims to find out how the implementation of the macapat song through the Tri Nga Ki Hajar Dewantara approach for early childhood in TK ABA Ngabean 2.
 Method: The implementation method used is a descriptive qualitative approach with data collection techniques through observation, documentation, and interviews.
 Findings: An early childhood education institution in Kapanewon Tempel, Sleman Regency, there is one school that received the title of an innovation school in Sleman and is a core PAUD and Aisyiyah Pilot Kindergarten in Kapanewon.

Analysis of Educational Values in Macapat Song Learning in Kindergarten

Background: Early childhood learning cannot be equated with adults. So education observers continue to develop and innovate in learning for children. The macapat song is one of the innovations and developments of early childhood learning media which has been implemented in ABA Ngabean 2 Kindergarten.
 Aim: The purpose of this study was to determine the educational values ??in the learning of the macapat song in TK ABA Ngabean 2. The macapat songs that were implemented in learning were the Potong and Gambuh songs.
 Method: This research method uses descriptive qualitative analysis by using data from observations, interviews, and conducting group discussion forums. Value analysis is associated with character education values ??based on Permendikbudristek number 7 of 2022 concerning PAUD content standards.
 Findings: The results of this study indicate that the macapat song has educational values ??that are following children's learning competencies according to the ministry of education in Indonesia

The Fusion of 3D Animation Film and Macapat Song Increases the Curiosity of Junior High School Students to Learn Traditional Music

Traditional music is often unpopular with the younger generation. This research proposed that middle-school students would become more curious about traditional songs which have been fused with 3D animation films. The research used descriptive quantitative methods. 111 junior high school students in Malang recruited through incidental sampling responded to a questionnaire. The results showed increases in the average cognitive and conative reaction to Tembang Macapat after seeing the Macapat animation, as well as a reduction in affective reaction.
 Keywords: 3D animation film, Tembang Macapat, cognitive, conative, junior high school students

Revealing The Religiosity in Sedulur Sikep Macapat Songs

Sikep society is known as one of Javanese cultural heritage keepers. Moreover, the society has unique religiosity attitudes that are somehow it misunderstood as disobedience. This research tries to dig the religiosity attitudes reflected on Sikep society’s Macapat songs, especially their focuses and objects. The analysis used appraisal language theory as the approach. The data of the research are words, phrases, or metaphors that reflect attitude in the texts of Sikep society’s macapat songs. The result of the study showed that thereare only two dimensions of religiosity attitudes found in Sikep society’s Macapat song, those are beliefs and values. The value of religiosity reflected on appreciation and judgment; the belief of religiosity consisted of appreciation, judgment, and affect. The objects of religiosity attitudes in the Sikep society’s macapat songs include people (Sikep society, Ki Surantika, man, the children of Sikep society, government, and the ancestors), and something that is humanized (intention, body and soul). The focus of positive moral attitude involves all words, phrases, and metaphor that reflected the principles, prohibitions, ideals; the focuses of negative moral attitude expressed the negative attitudes and behaviors that they proposed to be avoided. Here, the dominant positive attitudes showed their social life. Then, the only two dimensions of religiosity indicate the lack of restricted rules and ritual applied in their religious life.

Visualisasi Penelitian Tentang Tembang Macapat dari Tahun 1981 – 2021 : Analisis Bibliometrik

The macapat song in Indonesia has been widely studied and has become an interesting topic for international analysis. The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the extent to which the tembang macapat has been researched and published in reputable international journals. This study analyzes the literature from 1981 to 2021, identifies the publications each year, the number of articles and their authors, the most researched topics, and how interested they are in those topics. The data came from the Scopus database which was analyzed by the bibliometric method. The results of this study found articles about tembang macapat were published in Scopus indexed journals and topics related to macapat, namely ketoprak, cross-cultural perspectives, social change perspectives, Javanese, writing, and a few others. From the results of this visualization, it is necessary to increase the publication of research results in the international arena so that everything contained in the macapat song can also be known not only in Indonesia.

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEMBANG MACAPAT’S VALUES IN THE SAMIN COMMUNITY’S LIFE

This study describes the macapat song tradition of the Samin people in Bojonegoro. Samin is a community that has a unique culture, one of which is the macapat song tradition. This tradition is one of the cultural representations of the local community. In exploring the values of this tradition, this study uses the folklore theory. Folklore is closely related to the condition of society and the culture that surrounds it, so it is necessary to understand and give meaning to folklore. The method in this research is qualitative. Data were collected by interviewing respondents, observing and documenting the macapat song tradition in the Samin community. There are three macapat songs on Samin's teachings. The songs are of the Dandang Gula, Pangkur, and Pucung. As for the three values, the first contains the values based on the Dandang Gula song, which contains rules for maintaining the behavior of fellow humans and nature, the second is the value based on the Pangkur song, namely about marriage and family relationships, and the third is the value based on the Pucung song regarding the guidelines for human life.

Nilai Religius pada Kearifan Lokal Tembang Macapat Madura

The religious value of the local wisdom of the Madurese Macapat song is motivated by the variety of Madurese macapat songs that contain religious values which until now have been neglected by the Madurese ethnic in everyday life. This article examines the religious value of local Madurese wisdom in macapat songs. The method in this research uses a qualitative approach with a descriptive type. The techniques used in collecting data are through transcription, observation, documentation, and listening. Meanwhile, to analyze the data, researchers used identification, classification, and data description techniques. The results showed that the religious value of the local wisdom of the Madura macapat song contains the relationship between humans and God the creator of nature, namely Allah commands humans to carry out His good commands and stay away from His prohibitions. Meanwhile, the human-human relationship found symbolic meaning parèbhâsan with a reflection from Paul Recoer namely Kerras lamon ta’ akerrès which is intended for people who do not think before they act so that something happens less profitable for them. Madurese are advised to think before acting, so as not to be careless in doing something to others.

Tembang Macapat: Kritik Sosial Sedulur Sikep terhadap Ekspansi Industri Semen di Pegunungan Kendeng

Macapat song is an ancestral heritage that contains life guidance for the Javanese. Each lyric or cakepan of the Macapat song has a deep meaning. However, for Sedulur Sikep Sukolilo Pati, the macapat song was used as a social criticism of the plan to build a cement factory in the Kendeng Utara mountains. Cakepan macapat song is adapted to the social criticism that is to be conveyed through the song. This research uses literary criticism studies (expressive criticism) with a descriptive analysis approach. The research data is in the form of cakepan tembang macapat. Sources of research data, namely Sedulur Sikep figures and social media. Methods of data collection using observation, interviews, and documentation. Data analysis using data reduction techniques, data presentation, and data verification. The results showed that the social criticism used by Sedulur Sikep through the macapat song consisted of five Pangkur songs and one Dhandhanggula song. The social criticisms include, 1) farmers land planted with cement factories, 2) justice must be upheld, 3) casualties caused by miners, 4) the government torments farmers, 5) the earth begins to prosecute nature destroyers, 6) commemoration of earth day is useless. 
 Keywords: macapat song, social criticism, Sedulur Sikep, cement industry, Kendeng mountains.

Tarjamah Ayat-Ayat Al-Quran dengan Tembang Macapat dalam Wayang Kekayon Khalifah Yogyakarta

The Qur'an is kalamullah which contains great teachings and is conveyed in beautiful Arabic. This beauty can be approached by the beauty of the local language. For example in Java, the beauty of language in the Qur'an can also be felt when translated with a literary approach. One of them is literature that developed in Java, namely the art of song macapat. This macapat song art is used in the performance of Wayang Kekayon Khalifah Yogyakarta when translating the Qur'an. The author wants to present the translation of the Qur'an with macapat song that is in Wayang Kekayon Khalifah Yogyakarta. Macapat song in question is masumambang and pangkur. It aims to help readers understand the translation of the Qur'an with macapat song. The results showed that the translation of the Qur'an with the song of macapat presents the beauty and nuances of regionalism. Puppet Kekayon Khalifah Yogyakarta which presents a translation of the Qur'an with the song of macapat gives a new color to the universe of wayang. So that the Qur'an as a source of Islamic teachings can be delivered with wisdom.Keywords: Wayang Kekayon Khalifah Yogyakarta, Al-Qur’an Translation, and Tembang Macapat

The Representation of Kiai Ahmad Arrifai Kalisalak in Repen Ripangi

This study aims to discuss the meaning of Repen Ripangi as a literary narrative manuscript of Adipati Panji Suryakusuma, Regent of Semarang which was then composed in the form of macapat song by Panji Jayasubrata. By placing it in the context of social and political history in Java in the nineteenth century, the text reveals the tension between the two social elites during the colonial period in a form of narrative poetry. This research used qualitative method with representation theory. The results show that the writing of Repen Ripangi in the form of narrative poetry was not merely an aesthetic expression of the author Javanese priayi, but also a means of representation which goal is the stigmatization of Kiai Ahmad Arrifai as a kiai who brings apprehension in society. In addition, another goal of the representation in Repen Ripangi was to strengthen of the penghulu as one of religious authorities in Java during the colonial period and the defense of priyai interests and their political patrons, namely the colonial government in Java.

JAVANESE ISLAM DURING MANGKUNEGARA I LEADERSHIP

Religion is the main aspect in constructing a discourse because the Javanese society in the 18th are thickly related with religiosity (Islam) as an inherited principle from the previous king. Mangkunegara I is an influential and interesting figure in the history of Javanese leadership relating to Islam. The medium used in the Islamization process by Mangkunegara I are through art, culture, customs and Islamic religious education. This study aims to show the Javanese Islamic discourse during the leadership of Mangkunegara I in the Babad Kemalon (Pakunegara)/ BK manuscript. The BK manuscript is a Javanese manuscript contains of 30 macapat songs which tells about the struggle of R.M. Said until entitled Mangkunegara I. this research uses the cultural studies paradigm. The theory used is the discourse theory proposed by Michael Foucault. The method used is a qualitative method and the data analysis techniques are done descriptively and interpretatively. This research belongs to library research. The result shows how the leadership of Mangkunegara I was able to show its discourse in Javanese Islam, which was manifested by the way of Mangkunegara I leaderships towards himself, his families, and people. As well as the Islamic base struggle which is always emphasized by Mangkunegara I.

Eksistensi Tembang Mamaca (Macapat) dalam Dimensi Kultur, Mistik dan Religius

This study examines the historical terminology of mamaca (macapat) in the Modung Bangkalan West Serabi Village. "The focus of the study is" How is the existence of the Macapat songs in the cultural, the mystical and religious dimensions of the Modung Bangkalan West Serabi Village community? " The West Serabi Village community, the mystical and religious dimensions of Modung Bangkalan. The results of the study concluded and explained that the elements of the West's Song (macapat) in the Modung Bangkalan consist of: (1) personal beliefs about the old teachings as a truth, (2) the public's heritage in always upholding ancestral heritage, (3) the teachings of goodness in the world that are relevant to the culture of society, (4) customs that tend to be mystically influenced by old cultures that are still used from generation to generation, ( 5) The value and guidance of many and individual citizens.