Sundanese Culture Research Articles

ULAMA BOGOR DALAM PENGEMBANGAN TRADISI INTELEKTUAL:

As other ulamas generally, Bogor ulamas were responsible in developing the intellectual tradition of their society. This tradition was surely influenced by the local Sundanese culture where these ulamas held the central roles. However, the turning time, globalisation, and the borderless society had parsed local Sundanese cultures. This had served as a challenge for Bogor ulamas in maintaining the intellectual tradition with its religious and local nuances. As the cultural brokers, these ulamas’ writings were evidence of their efforts in maintaining the written tradition based on the local cultures and also on the current changes. This paper discusses the efforts taken by Bogor ulamas living in the 20th and the 21st centuries in building their intellectual tradition and adapting to the changes. Finally, it finds out that there are some discrepancies between the intellectual products of the past and the contemporary ulamas either in the content or in the languages as one form of local culture conservation.

PERAN BUDAYA DALAM KEHIDUPAN BERAGAMA KAJIAN ATAS KEHIDUPAN BERAGAMA UMAT KATOLIK SUNDA DI CIGUGUR

Religious life is directly related to cultural life. This is observable among Sundanese Catholics in Cigugur. In religious life, the respective Sundanese culture strongly marked its influence. The way one lives his or her religiosity also reflects their culture. It is common that religious people live together with other people of different religious belief and practices. In this context culture helps them to be able to live harmoniously with people from different religions. This article focuses on the history of the Catholic community in Cigugur, Kuningan while inquiring the role of the Sundanese culture in their daily life within their Catholic community.

PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA SUNDA DI WILAYAH PERBATASAN: DILEMA IMPLEMENTASI KURIKULUM 2013

Kurikulum 2013 menyediakan fleksibilitas untuk semua praktisi pendidikan formal untuk terus mengembangkan konten lokal sebagai sebuah bentuk kekayaan khas daerah yang perlu dijaga dan dilestarikan. Salah satu muatan lokal yang keberadaannya memiliki nilai-nilai penting adalah Bahasa Sunda. Pengajaran Bahasa Sunda di daerah di mana didasarkan pada budaya Sunda yang kuat, tidak akan menghadapi banyak kendala. Namun, di sudut-sudut daerah yang notabene merupakan kota/kabupaten dengan kondisi demografis yang sangat heterogen, tentu saja mengajar Bahasa Sunda akan penuh dengan tantangan. Sebagai contoh, di daerah yang berbatasan dengan budaya lain seperti Betawi dan Jawa, karena fleksibilitas budaya, masyarakat Sunda akan dipengaruhi oleh bahasa dan budaya Betawi atau Jawa. Tulisan ini merupakan hasil penelitian yang dilakukan di perbatasan kota Bogor, pada pelaksanaan kurikulum 2013, yang terus mengembangkan konten Bahasa Sunda untuk membekali siswa dengan pengetahuan, keterampilan, dan sikap khas budaya Sunda yang sesuai dengan<br />kearifan lokal. Namun di sisi lain, bertabrakan dengan dilema, di mana masyarakat perbatasan sangat heterogen, sehingga budaya dan bahasa Sunda tidak terpelihara dengan baik.

Kemajemukan, Hipotesis Kebudayaan Dominan dan Kesukubangsaan

On the basis of Bruner's concept of a 'dominant culture', the author analyzes the cases of Bandung, Sambas and Ambon. By comparing the three cases, the author reveals the differences of adaptation strategies among the Javanese in Bandung, the Madurese in Sambas, and the BBM (Buton, Bugis, Makassar) in Ambon. The Javanese from the lower classes in Bandung follow the Sundanese culture as the dominant one, and try to adopt Sundanese ways of behavior. Harmonious relationship between the migrants and the Sundanese as the host population is thus maintained. On the other hand, the Madurese in Sambas and the BBM in Ambon forced their rules and principles so as to dominate those from the natives. As a result, conflicts between the natives and the migrants could not be avoided. The author argues that the dominant culture in a specific setting, with its rules and norms, should be followed by the migrants and outsiders. However, the challenges to the dominant culture can be diverse in different societies and settings. The cases in Sambas and Ambon reveal that there is a problem in the challenge toward the dominant culture in those societies. Key words: pluralism; dominant culture; ethnicity.  

Pengembangan Program Ekowisata Di Resort Mandalawangi Taman Nasional Gunung Gede Pangrango Kabupaten Cianjur Jawa Barat

Development of Ecotourism Program at Resort of Mount Gede Pangrango Mandalawangi National Park (TNGGP) is done by optimizing the supply of tourist collaborated with tourist demand. Tourism resource most interesting at Resort Mandalawangi namely Puncak Gunung Gede - Pangrango then others are rare animals such as Leopards java (Panthera pardus) is the key species and Javan Gibbon (Hylobates Molloch) as a flagship species, as well as waterfalls, crater, Blue Lake, and Gayonggong Swamp. Social and cultural potential of a pattern of community life Sundanese-oriented agriculture as well as the existence of the mythical legend of the kingdom in TNGGP. Visitors dominant male, student status with the last education of SMP / MTs, 16-20-year-old, from Bekasi to have the motivation tends to settle for pleasure. Assess visitors tend not to know that TNGGP have ecotourism program that School Visit, Visit to School, Conservation Camp, Local Content Filling Material Environmental Education / Nature Conservation and Environmental Education for Teachers, Farmers, and the Young Generation. The concept of program development of ecotourism in Resort Mandalawangi using the theme TNGGP, Cultured Conservation Area. This concept will focus on the utilization of resources and nature taking into consideration the safety of visitors as well as integrate with shades of Sundanese culture around tourism area Cibodas. Another aspect that needs to be developed to support the promotion of ecotourism programs, establish Sundanese cultural nuances and supporting infrastructure at KWC, strengthening human resources ecotourism program managers.

The Implementation of Sundanese Leadership Values in Education Management: A Study on “DasaPasanta” in School Principal Leadership Based on Sundanese Cultural Values of Leadership

“DasaPasanta” Sundanese leadership style, particularly, focuses on a certain way of giving orders in which the person commanded can follow the orders properly. DasaPasanta consists of the following aspects: 1) guna, 2) ramah, 3) ho’okeun, 4) pesok/reueus, 5) asih, 6) karunia, 7) mukpruk, 8) ngulas, 9) nyecep, and 10) ngalaangen. Those aspects are rich in leadership values that can be adopted by a school principal in performing school management. “DasaPasanta” is a method of governing employed in asserting Sundanese leadership. In my opinion, there are ethics or codes of practice that can be adopted and implemented by a school principal in performing school management. The implementation of Sundanese leadership values embodied in DasaPasanta in education leadership is a positive attitude every school principal should nurture in order to successfully perform education management, despite being faced by difficulties. A school principal should upholdsSundanese noble values in exercising his leadership with a great consistency so that the education process works productively. The impact of implementation of Sundanese leadership value ‘DasaPasanta’ on educational and management process is evident in the impact of development of 8 national education standards. The principal in the context of Sundanese leadership is demanded to be more creative in carrying out his duties and tasks. When implemented in the principal’s leadership, the DasaPasantaSundanese leadership values can take the school in a direction to success with unique characters while still serving as the agent of change. This can be comprehended since the principal who understands DasaPasanta will manage the school into Sundanese local culture-oriented, and it will become a school with Sundanese (kasundaan) image. Although filled with local nuances, the school can still follow and adjust to the constant updates and developments especially in terms of education.

Tokoh Kabayan Sebagai Inspirasi Torotot Heong the Song of Kabayan

Kabayan as an Inspiration of Torotot Heong The Song Of Kabayan. The theater art creation of Torotot Heongthe Song of Kabayan is a process that is inspired by the characters of folklore in Sundanese literature, Kabayan. InSundanese society, Kabayan is a stunt character from parable, a symbolic story, in the community as a media tonotify precept or wisdom. Kabayan is regarded as character with characteristic of Sundanese culture that hold on to“Cageur jeung Bageur” living guide (hale and healthy, and kind hearted). The creation process of Torotot Heongthe Song of Kabayan is performing into several stages and working methods according to Patri Pavis. It is startedby selecting the Kabayan’s Story to under take into the script. The next stage is doing some preparation for StagingProcess. The creating process is conducted through the mise en scene show’s appearance, perform into idea identification stage, artistic observation of cultural resources, the artist perspective and performance realization. TorototHeong the Song of Kabayan performances are the ultimate stage for the creative process of the hardworking teamwith a lot of effort to accomplish a communicative performance and appreciate well by the audience.

The Aesthetics of Sundanese Traditional Design Case study: Rice Containers Design

The traditional design that is still made and exists today is a legacy from mythical culture period. That is to say that it has its own aesthetical concept that is different from modern aesthetics. Some of the traditional designs in Sundanese society is the rice containers that come in different form depends on the rice condition. The design of a traditional rice container in Sundanese culture is made in basic shapes, such as square, circle and triangle or configuration of the basic shapes resulted in a beautiful design. The rice containers mostly made of woven bamboo. Uniquely, these visual basic shapes also found in proverbs and idioms in Sundanese language as a symbol of perfection of conduct. Square symbolizes attitude or behavior, circle is for belief or faith, and triangle represents a holy place. Rice in traditional community such as Baduy in Banten has a connection with the myth of the goddess of rice. Thus, Sundanese traditional culture and society highly respect the rice. This is one of the reasons why the traditional rice containers are designed in those form. This study has come to a conclusion that traditional design made is not merely to fulfill utility needs but also to represent the Sundanese macrocosm.

Makhṭūṭat Kinanti [Tutur Teu Kacatur Batur]: Taṣawwuf al-‘ālam al-Sūndāwī ‘inda al-Ḥāj Ḥasan Muṣṭafà (1852-1930)

Although the influence of Sundanese interpretations of Islam is not clearly evident in Indonesia’s Islamic networks, these local interpretations have played a crucial role in the indigenization of Islam in the region. This article analyses Haji Hasan Mustapa’s dangding manuscript on Sundanese expressions of Sufism in the 19th century. Mustapa’s teachings on Sundanese dangding sufism suggests efforts to harmonize waḥdat al-wujūd teachings with Sundanese tradition. Mustapa’s work harmoniously integrates mystical Islam teachings and practices with Sundanese traditions. For example, the flora and fauna imagery and metaphors associated with Sundanese culture often adorns his metrical verses (dangding). Tadpoles, angklung and various kinds of bamboo such as awi, haur and iwung are also used in the context of his mystical and spiritual quest in waḥdat al-wujūd.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v20i2.390

BUDAYA INTI, SIKAP BAHASA, DAN PEMBANGUNAN KARAKTER BANGSA: KASUS PENUTUR BAHASA-BAHASA DAERAH UTAMA DI INDONESIA

This article addresses three main issues in relation to culture’s core values, language attitude and maintenance, and character building. Using a theory previously developed by Smolicz and Secombe (1985), this study deviced instruments that enabled us to understand respondents’ perceptions about their culture’s core values. The respondents were recruited voluntarily from four major speakers of local languages in Indonesia, including speakers of Javanese, Sundanese, Minangnese, and Bataknese. They were given a set of questionnaires and when relevant were interviewed to further clarify their responses. The analyses found that each group viewed their culture’s core values differently, i.e. Javanese see language as their core cultures. Sundanese believe that a real Sundanese will stay in the Sundanese Land, embrace Islam, and speak in Sundanese. They also regard traditional music of kecapi suling and Cianjuran as the real Sundanese culture. On the other hand, Minang language speakers believed that it is the ability to appreciate — through making and tasting — traditional food that has made them true Minangnese. Meanwhile, it is strongly believed that you cannot become a true Bataknese until you know, feel, and fully understand the ways people of Batak origins speak, including tone, pitch, and intonation.

Dialektika Komunikasi, Islam, dan Budaya Sunda

Customary societies of Kampung Dukuh is community tightly maintaining their tradition up to the present. It appeared on their life routine beginning from the way of having intercourse, the custom of consuming, the kind of living, the system of leadership until the construction model of stage house constructed from bamboo with palm fiber for the roof. This study aimed to analyze: 1) language dialectic, communication and Sundanese culture at customary society of Kampung Dukuh 2) communication dialectic and tradition of Islam at customary society of Kampung Dukuh 3) Dialectic of Islam tradition and Sundanese culture at customary society of Kampung Dukuh. The method of this research is Ethnography of Communication with qualitative approach. The techniques of data collection are profound interview, participatory observation and documentation research. The results are 1) communication dialectic Sundanese culture lasted in total dialectic manner and indicated relation of dependence each other 2) communication dialectic and tradition of Islam prevailed in total dialectic way, and possessed dependence, affirmed as well as strengthen each other 3) tradition dialectic of Islam and Sundanese culture were divided into two categories namely 1) dialectic of Islam value and culture norm run in total dialectic manner and owned dependence each other 2) dialectic of Islam faith and myths lasted in contradictory way or be in conflict among two different extremes.

VALUE DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORY LEARNING THROUGH PARIBASA AND BABASAN

This research derived from an anxiety that looked history learning as a subject that was very close with intellectual competences development. In fact, history itself ilustrated value experience which could give such a kind of wisdom, and more over the history also had a big value in it. So, it was thought that there was a need to have a right strategy to understand the value of history. One kind of value that could be internalized to students in history learning was Sundane local wisdom. Sundanese culture had various inheritances, for example was like oral literature (folklore) in paribasa and babasan. The problems in this research were how to identify the values of Sundanese culture in paribasa and babasan, and how the people could use paribasa and babasan in a process of value socialization and internalization, how those values could be applied in history learning. This research used a qualitative approach. It was divided in two phases, the first one was about folklore, and the second one was about naturalistic study on history learning process in the class. The result of this research was also divided in two parts. The first part was related to social values identification that could be extracted on Cireundeu Cultural Village pass through paribasa and babasan. Based on the result of the observation and interview with the villagers, they used paribasa and babasan which generally got the same point with the others Sundanese societies, so there was no specialty in Cireundeu. The main point was they still used paribasa and babasan in their daily life, especially when they counseled their children, interacted to each other, said euphemism critic, and taught Sundanese values to the young generations. Second, this part was related to paribasa and babasan’s value implementation in history learning on SMA Pasundan 1 Bandung. There were two approaches in this implementation, value inculcation approach and value clarification approach. This kind of history learning that put paribasa and babasan as a media of value inculcation passed through appreciation, self-identification, behavior implementation, and habit forming

Kebudayaan Sebagai Suatu Komitmen Kesadaran Diri untuk Mengangkat Tradisi sebagai Konsep Contemporary Vernacular pada Interior dan Arsitektur

Humans are part of the natural environment or, in the context of human culture to use reason and mind to be able to coexist with nature. But the more advanced capabilities of human thought and the further development of technologies that make, the pattern of human origin in order to live in harmony with nature the more degenerate into an attempt to conquer nature. Associated with the times, 'needs' and 'demand' from the user will be higher, both in terms of function and aesthetics. A design must be able to also follow the movement pattern of the trend that occurred in the community to be recognized. Through discourse Contemporary Vernacular Architecture in the Interior and revealed in some design work, as object of study is the existence of a work done by several designers and architects in Indonesia as a commitment to self-awareness to lift a tradition contained in Sundanese culture.

The Tone Material of the Kacapi in Tembang Sunda in West Java

T he theory about the tone material in Sundanese music, prevailing since the 1920s writings of Kunst and Kusumadinata, is neither appropriate for describing what is happening in current practice nor adequate for prescribing what should be happening. This article will focus on tuning behaviour in one genre of Sundanese music and offer a new empirical foundation for theory as developed from frequency analyses of recorded zither tunings. Over the span of half a century it appears that the pitch level of certain songs has dropped by as much as 500 cents. Information for this study was gathered mainly from players in the regions of Bandung and Cianjur during field work in 1981 and 1982. Bandung is the present capital of the province of West Java and a main center of Sundanese culture. Cianjur was an important administrative city in the first half of the 19th century, the period in which Tembang Sunda' developed as a separate genre (see van Zanten 1984:290-292). Tembang Sunda was formerly named after the place in which it originated: Cianjuran. In 1962 the term Tembang Sunda was agreed upon during a conference (see Wiratmadja 1964:107). The terms and concepts which are presented in this article come from acknowledged, leading performers of Tembang Sunda. Players of the radio station in Bandung, led by Uking Sukri, were my main informants on the concepts of Tembang Sunda. In Cianjur my main informant was Bakang Abubakar. The first part of this article will discuss the instrumental components of Tembang Sunda, with special emphasis on the tone material of the large zither kacapi indung. In the second part we will turn to the frequency analysis of the recorded tunings of this instrument. Some notes on the way of recording, the recording apparatus, the frequency analysis and the measurement error may be found in Appendix 1. Appendix 2 gives the recorded and analysed kacapi indung tunings in Hertz.

Peran Komunitas Seni Budaya dalam Pembentukan City Branding

This research aims to find out what efforts are made by the Kitchen community of art and culture of Bandung to help form City Branding. Community. Bandung's art and cultural kitchen is a community that does traditional Sundanese art and culture through tourism. The activities carried out by the community Kitchen arts and culture are expected to not only preserve traditional arts and culture but also preserve nature and improve the economy of the surrounding community. The role of The Kitchen Arts and Culture Community in the establishment of city branding Bandung city by becoming one icon of Bandung City. Starting from the preservation of traditional arts and culture that they do as a characteristic formation for the deference of marketing of traditional arts and cultures that originate from their area through tourism activities and become ambassadors representing the city of Bandung to several cities in Indonesia. For the role of the government in the establishment of city branding, it is necessary to align the objectives between the previous officials and the new officials, so that the goals made can be realized to the maximum, because often occurs when the shift in the position of existing programs needs to be re-socialized from the beginning.