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Abstract— Local wisdom means a good relationship Sumbawa. Therefore, the Sumbawa language needs to
between humans, nature, and the environment in an area taken into consideration, as to preserve it from extinction.
that is also influenced by its culture. The globalization There are some ways that can be done to preserve it,
phenomenon and modernization nowadays often leaves including introducing the Sumbawa culture, for example
cultures rapidly forgotten, therefore they need to be maen jaran (horse race), barapan kebo (buffalo race),
preserved, one of them is the Ponan Party Ceremony. Ponan Party Ceremonies, wedding processions , and so on.
Ponan Party Ceremony is an annual tradition carried out Every culture in the Sumbawa community has local
by the Sumbawa people of West Nusa Tenggara, which wisdom that needs to be maintained.
contains many of the local values. This study aims to
explore the local wisdom embedded in the lawas (poetry) II. THEORIES OF LOCAL WISDOM
of Ponan Party Ceremony in Sumbawa. The research Local wisdom is the identity or cultural
method used in this research is descriptive qualitative personality of a nation that causes the nation to be able to
through literature studies in relation of local wisdom. The absorb, even cultivate cultures that originate from the
results of this research show that the lawas (poetry) of outside / the nation becomes its own character and ability
Ponan Party Ceremony are as following: love the (Wibowo, 2012). These identities and personalities
environment, religious values, social values, tradition, naturally adjust to the views of the local community so
and culture. Local wisdom needs to be preserved in order that the values do not shift. Local wisdom is one of the
to keep up and balance with modern times. means of cultivating one's own culture and defending
Keywords— culture, Sumbawa Village, Ponan, lawas themselves from unfavorable foreign cultures.
(poetry). Local wisdom is a perspective on life and
knowledge, including various life strategies in the form of
I. INTRODUCTION activities that society does in order to solve their
Nature, people, and the environment have a close problems on meeting their needs. In foreign languages, it
relationship. In the past, humans understood the language is often also conceptualized as local wisdom or local
of nature. Traditional communities collect them into a genius knowledge (Fajarini, 2016). Various strategies are
system of knowledge, which would then be used to carried out by the local community to maintain their
interact with others. A language-oriented system of culture. On the other hand, (Parkes, Peter., Ellen, R. F., &
knowledge in a certain region is called local wisdom. Bicker, 2005) named it local knowledge (local wisdom).
Indonesia is known to be very rich in traditional Local knowledge is defined as follows: 1) knowledge that
languages and cultures . Bahasa Indonesia is used as the is associated with a place and a series of experiences, and
unification language of the diverse regions. Besides that, developed by the local community; 2) knowledge
Bahasa Indonesia also developed as the official language obtained through mimicry, imitation and experimenting;
of the country and the language of knowledge and 3) daily practical knowledge obtained from trial and error;
technology. One of the traditional languages that 4) non-theoretical empirical knowledge; 5)
continues to grow is the language of Sumbawa, called comprehensive and integrated knowledge in the fields of
'Samawa'. tradition and culture. The same thing was also expressed
Samawa is a language used to communicate and by (Alfian, 2013), stating that local wisdom is interpreted
interact with local residents who are used collectively as a view of life and knowledge as well as a tangible life
(Zulkarnain, 2015). The development of technology as a strategy of activities carried out by local communities in
result of globalization has decreased the fondness and meeting their needs.
pride of using traditional languages , including in
6.3 Social Value Data 8 untill data 12 describes the place and
Social value is a value that is considered good in ponan ceremony procession. The ritual starts with
humans. Nwaubani & Okafor, (2015) Social value is a members of the village gathering in the village gate
value that is considered good in humans. Social value is a before walking together to the Ponan Hill. They walk
value that must be instilled in humans, as early as hand in hand, carrying the food and drinks that have been
elementary school level, in order to be able to become prepared beforehand for the participants of the ceremony.
citizens with moral values in community life to live After they arrive, they have prayers together, lead by the
peacefully. Lawas (poetry) which contain social values headman. They pray for prosperity to befall upon the
are as follows; three villages, for God to give them crops in abundance.
In addition, this occasion also serves for
Data 8 Adamo sopo katokal residents to forgive each other for anything that might
Pang tengatan onrong rea offend anyone during the ceremony, whether there were
Desa poto- Moyo Hilir errors in the distribution or mistakes during the irrigation
process for examples. They ask for forgiveness and
Translate; forgive each other so there would be no grudges kept and
We are in one place, burdens held in the heart, which would damage the unity
In the midst of rice fields, and brotherhood. According the Sumbawa people, there is
Poto, Moyo, Hilir Villages a strong relation between crops yield and relationships
among people in Ponan party ceremony. If their