Agrarian Folklore as Local Wisdom and Ecological Resilience: An Ethnoliterary Investigation of the Sedulur Sikep Community of Central Java, Indonesia
Agrarian Folklore as Local Wisdom and Ecological Resilience: An Ethnoliterary Investigation of the Sedulur Sikep Community of Central Java, Indonesia
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Folklore is the soul of Indigenous communities. Indonesia as a third-world country consisting of 17,504 islands has diverse ethnic communities and ancestral teachings in the form of folklore. The Sedulur Sikep or Samin community, for instance, is the very epitome of Indigenous groups in the Blora and Pati regencies, Central Java, Indonesia. The name derives from the founder, a native Javanese figure named Samin Surosentika who lived in the 1800s in the era of Dutch colonialism in Java. Samin people are famous for their honesty and unpretentiousness in dealing with material affairs. In the modern age, the communities still implement these values in their daily life in the midst of overwhelming global cultural impacts of consumerism and materialism. Considering the importance of agrarian life for ecological resilience, this article briefly discusses the community’s inherited teachings as local wisdom and its impacts on raising ecological resilience. The moral ethics practiced by the Sedulur Sikep community reflect their ecological awareness. They, for instance, express this legacy through their sustainable practices in tilling ricefields and consuming material goods judiciously rather than excessively.
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End Notes
1 Henrikus Joko Yulianto is a teaching staff member of the English Department of Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES), Central Java, Indonesia and pursued his Ph.D. in English (Poetics) at the University at Buffalo, New York. He has published papers in both national and international proceedings and journals. He loves travelling and jogging and has research interests in the environmental humanities (ecopoetics). His email address is: henrikus.joko@mail.unnes.ac.id
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Apriando, Tommy. “Apa yang Hilang Jika Pegunungan Kendeng Ditambang?” (“What is Lost If the Kendeng Mountain Ranges Are Mined?”). Mongabay Environmental Website. Accessed 21 Aug. 2020.
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Wilson, Edward O. Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life. Liveright Publishing, 2016.
Wirya, Bambang Iss. Jangan Panggil Aku Samin: Transformasi Kultural Sedulur Sikep (Don’t Call Me Samin: Cultural Transformation of Sedulur Sikep). Pataba Press, 2020.
-----. Sedulur Sikep. Sep. 2018–Jul. 2019. Photographs. Sambongrejo Village, Blora and Sukolilo Village, Pati, Indonesia.
Yulianto, Henrikus Joko. Sedulur Sikep. Jul. 2020. Photographs. Sambongrejo Village, Blora and Sukolilo Village, Pati, Indonesia.
End Notes
1 Henrikus Joko Yulianto is a teaching staff member of the English Department of Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES), Central Java, Indonesia and pursued his Ph.D. in English (Poetics) at the University at Buffalo, New York. He has published papers in both national and international proceedings and journals. He loves travelling and jogging and has research interests in the environmental humanities (ecopoetics). His email address is: henrikus.joko@mail.unnes.ac.id
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