scholarly journals Randai as Cultural Identity Formation in Minangkabau

Author(s):  
Hendri Jihadul Barkah

The present study is initiated on the phenomenon that people in minang lose such cultural identity. Indeed, the portion of local cultures gradually begins to shift and they are switched into a single culture which is commonly known as "National Culture". On the one hand, the creation of a national cultural identity originates only from a “small part” of regional culture. This has led to cultural stunting in Indonesia. The approach used within the study is cultural study. The cultural study is one of the methods used to understand humans. This study explains conflicts of interest that happened between groups and tribes where they are bond through an understanding of cultural differences. Local culture as a basis values in the life of its people is a factor that must be respected by the government. Society must have the freedom to create their regional identity as a view and guide of their living. Local cultures should not be used as a display and preserved as if they were mere ancient items. On the other hand, local culture must have its own space to be owned by the community.

1968 ◽  
Vol 58 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 126-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fergus Millar

No subject in the history of the Roman Empire has more significance or more pitfalls than that of the local cultures of the provinces. The evidence is in each case, with the exception of Judaea and Egypt, relatively slight, disparate and ambiguous. But, on the one hand, the subject has very real attractions, which may lead to the building of vast but fragile historical theories, attempting to bring the distinctive culture of an area into a schematic relationship with events such as political movements or the spread of Christianity. On the other, we can never escape the possibility that the denial of the survival of a significant local culture may be falsified by new evidence; even worse, a local culture may have existed in a form which left no written records or datable artefacts.Yet the problem must be faced, not only for the intrinsic interest which such cultures present, but for the light the enquiry sheds on Graeco-Roman civilization itself. We might conclude for one area that Graeco-Roman culture remained the merest façade, for another that it completely obliterated a native culture. More commonly, we will find a mixture or co-existence of cultures. In such a situation, again, the local element might have been culturally and socially insignificant, or, as it was in Egypt and in Judaea, embodied in a coherent traditional civilization with its own language, literature, customs, religion and (in Egypt) art-forms.


2021 ◽  
pp. 68-71
Author(s):  
Evgeniya Gruzdeva

Globalization and widespread active introduction of architectural forms, techniques, materials and building technologies pose a problem of finding regional identity, particularity and uniqueness of the style in architecture. Consideration of history and traditions of regional architecture is one of the ways to reveal this identity and uniqueness. Wooden architecture is traditional for Siberia. It has hardly evolved stylistically since the 1920s. Studying stylistic formation in wooden architecture of Siberia in the late 19th – early 20th centuries, including modern, will help to identify the peculiarities of the local style and culture. The style can be considered from the point of view of philosophy of architecture and art as a unique manifestation of regional culture, as one of the ways to create (recreate) cultural identity, particularity and uniqueness, and as a source of information on a variety of techniques and forms of wooden architecture in Siberia.


Author(s):  
M. D. Nauryzbek

The article raises the issue of conflict of interest and its prevention. The first threat of a conflict of interest in general is a violation of the balance between the personal interests of civil servants and the public interest. And the second risk is that a conflict of interest reduces the level of public trust and confidence in the loyalty and impartiality of public officials. This article analyzes and studies the real form of conflict of interest in Kazakhstan, namely two gift policy options. In particular, the zero gift policy and the limited gift ban policy are the subject of this research. On the one hand, the gift policy may completely prohibit accepting the gifts in order to prevent conflicts of interest. This zero gift policy implies that there is a ban for any gifts, regardless of the price. The establishment of a zero gift policy affects the level of confidence in the government, since citizens know that no factors affect the performance of a civil servant’s work. However, this will significantly restrict the freedom of action of civil servants. On the other hand, the gift policy can determine the rules for accepting the gifts both at workplace and after the work hours. If a gift is permissible, then there is a question of establishing an acceptable price. This means adopting a policy of limited prohibition on gifts and such a policy promotes the development of civil servants' consciousness. As a result, the author suggests a more favorable policy for Kazakhstan.


Somatechnics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-39
Author(s):  
Khalid Alhathlool

This paper critically engages with Amin Maalouf's understanding of identity in his book In the Name of Identity (1997). Maalouf's intervention in the contentious discussion of identity consists of four principle points. Firstly, identity is composite. Secondly, identity is constructed through dialogic process. Thirdly, the understanding of identity today is predominately ‘tribal.’ Finally there is a need for the prevalence of the universal in the ‘era of globalization’. Maalouf's analysis rightly transcends the limitation of essentialist and singular conceptions of identity—in particular- cultural identity—in today's ‘postcolonial’’ world; however, his proposed alternative, and the assumptions upon which it rests, are equally problematic, especially for ‘postcolonial’ societies and immigrants/migrants in ‘Western’ countries. Maalouf's perspective on hybridity is riddled with contradictions: above all, the contradiction between understanding hybridity as a foundational position and as a deconstructive force of fixed identities and naturalised categories. This confusion arises when, on the one hand, cultures are understood as bounded and territorialised and, on the other, individuals are thought to belong simultaneously to these different, bounded cultures in full composite terms. In the first place there is an argument for sustaining purity, while the subsequent stage of identity formation advocates hybridity. Maalouf rejects purity as well as hybridity by appearing to sustain the two simultaneously. He cannot maintain this contradiction except through individualising the conception of identity. This paper argues that while Maalouf is able to problematise notions of ‘essentialist’ identities—what he dubs as ‘murderous identities’—and presents a moderately plausible case for ‘hybridity’, he fails to depart from a hegemonic and reified notion of a ‘universal’ or ‘cosmopolitan’ definition of identity which in effect operates as a code for Eurocentric ideas of identity and being. Thus, Maalouf's ‘speaking for’ postcolonial and migrant people/cultures and ‘speaking back’ against neo-conservative world-view is never quite able to escape the latter's ideological moorings.


NALARs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Kemas Ridwan Kurniawan

ABSTRAK. Menguatnya politik identitas di Indonesia pasca reformasi telah melahirkan formasi arsitektur baru yang tersebar di berbagai daerah di Indonesia. Identitas budaya terkait indigenitas menjadi bagian dari politik identitas yang menurut sebagian pengamat politik disinyalir dimanfaatkan para elit dan penguasa untuk kepentingan politik kekuasaan. Ironisnya, dalam bidang arsitektur, definisi tentang identitas ini justru semakin tidak jelas. Definisi-definisi ini berputar pada debat tentang pencarian jati diri yang tidak pernah selesai dan sering diasosiasikan dengan proses untuk memunculkan jati diri kebudayaan sebagai jawaban atas tantangan universalitas arsitektur modern, globalisasi dan kemajuan teknologi. Makalah ini mencoba mengambil dari sudut pandang yang berbeda yaitu politik identitas dalam silangannya dengan arsitektur (‘space’), waktu (sejarah) dan aspek sosial-politik. Isu yang muncul adalah bagaimana politik identitas perlahan-lahan melanjutkan pengaruhnya dalam formasi arsitektur di Indonesia pasca reformasi, di balik kesalah-pahaman tentang definisi ‘identitas’ dalam debat-debat arsitektur di Indonesia. Hal ini terjadi karena banyak arsitek atau teoretikus arsitektur di Indonesia membatasi dirinya hanya dalam lingkup arsitektur, dan gagal berinteraksi secara lebih luas dengan isu-isu sosio politik. Konsekuensinya, di satu sisi, istilah ‘identitas’ kehilangan pengaruh sosio-politiknya dan direduksi kepada masalah-masalah estetika visual semata, yang mengaburkan identitas arsitektur sebagai suatu konsep sosial budaya. Sementara itu, di sisi lain pemanfaatan identitas sebagai bagian dari komoditas politik juga melanjutkan dinamika yang terjadi di daerah (regional) yaitu warna kekuasaan (power) dalam formasi arsitektur di Indonesia sebagai imbas dari Desentralisasi. Makalah ini mengkritisi perilaku politik identitas yang cenderung berubah menjadi ‘regime’ dalam formasi identitas arsitektur saat ini, dan kurang terangkatnya isu identitas arsitektur dengan dinamika sosio-politik dan keseharian (‘everyday-life’) masyarakat. Kata Kunci: subjektivitas, hibrid, indigenitas, pasca-nasionalisme ABSTRACT. Straighthening the politics of identity in Indonesia after the 1997 political reformation has increased the formation of new architecture which are scattered in various regions in Indonesia. The cultural identity on indigeneity and become part of identity politics. It was exploited by elites and rulers for the sake of power politics. Ironically, in the field of architecture, the definition of this identity is even more unclear. These definitions spin on the debate about the search for identity that was never finished and is often associated with the process to bring a cultural identity as a response to the challenges of modern architecture such as universality, globalization and technological progress. This paper tried to look at architecture (space) in the intersection with time (history) and socio-political aspects. The issue that arises is how the politics of identity is slowly continuing influence in the formation of architecture in Indonesia after the 1997 political reform, under misconceptions about the definition of 'identity' in debates of architecture in Indonesia. This happens because many architects or architectural theorists in Indonesia restricts itself only in the sphere of architecture, and failed to interact more broadly with social and political issues. Consequently, on the one hand, the term 'identity' loss of the socio-political influences and are reduced to a visual aesthetic problems alone, which obscure the identity of architecture as a socio-cultural concept. Meanwhile, on the other hand the use of identity as part of a political commodity also continue the dynamics that occur in the area (regional) is the color of power (power) in the formation of architecture in Indonesia as the impact of decentralization. The paper criticized the behavior of identity politics that tends to turn into a 'regime' in the current architectural identity formation, and less lifting of architecture with issues of identity and everyday social and political dynamics ( 'everyday-life') of community. Keywords: subjectivity, hybrid, indigeneity, post-nationalism


2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (30) ◽  
pp. 160-171
Author(s):  
Dovilė Kulakauskienė

Nations, confessions, and ideologies are continually mixing in frontier towns, creating a specific environment in which, on the one hand, an atmosphere of continual attrition and, on the other, tolerance and adaptation, has formed. The author has chosen to investigate the small town of Vilkyškiai, with its varied historical developments among different ethnic and confessional communities. The narratives of the young generation living in Vilkyškiai reflect the peculiarities of the local community’s identity formation. The youth not only learn the traditions of their own national or religious group and the main principles of moral values, but also constantly rethink the importance of their loved ones as well as their own value as people, ideas that are passed with memory narratives. Contemporary young people necessarily take into consideration contemporary cultural realia. The young generation of Vilkyškiai creates its own memory narratives and shapes new young people’s identities. While preserving their parents’ and grandparents’ historical experiences as images of the past, and at the same time taking on the local individual corporal identity, young people face a duality of identity. In this situation, the young generation of Vilkyškiai tends to give priority to the locally distinctive cultural identity of Lithuania Minor, calling themselves the inhabitants of this particular land. This permits them to feel distinct and interesting. Meanwhile, their parents’ and ancestors’ historical narratives are most often endorsed as the factor shaping their fundamental moral values.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-102
Author(s):  
Sapriadi Sapriadi ◽  
Chamil Arkhasa Nikko Mazlan ◽  
Affendi Ramli

The musical composition, entitled Kelampan Bajang, is the main narrative of the composition theme about the story of the journey of the young Sasak tribe which is semiotically depicted in three different times, namely morning, afternoon, and night. This composition emerged due to several phenomena found, including 1) there are no complete Sasak songs in transcripts and arrangements, 2) many musicians arrange songs in Sasak but often cause controversy in lyrics and music, 3) many talented young musicians cover repeating noname songs on several songs performed by many pop singers in Lombok, 4) many sasak pop songs but most of them do not represent local culture in terms of lyrics and music. This paper aims to explain the initial process of musical composition with the theme Kelampan Bajang including 1) Bekuliq, 2) Bekayaq, 3) Matur Tampiasih, 4) Sepi Alam Dese, 5) Lalo Midang, and 6) Merariq. All song lyrics are written in the Sasak language. The research uses the autoethnographic method to discuss the problem, how the idea of ​​creating musical compositions can be aligned with the diversity of musical culture in Lombok. After conducting an in-depth study, the author concluded that in order to create a compositional work that could represent regional culture and not cause controversy among the public, namely 1) the author inserted an exploration of the pelog and slendro melodic motifs in the vocal melody section as regional identity, 2) the author inserted the motif the melodies of pelog and slendro in the musical arrangement section, and 3) the author uses good and correct local language lyrics that are in accordance with the regional culture in Lombok.


2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip L. Martin

Agriculture has one of the highest shares of foreign-born and unauthorized workers among US industries; over three-fourths of hired farm workers were born abroad, usually in Mexico, and over half of all farm workers are unauthorized. Farm employers are among the few to openly acknowledge their dependence on migrant and unauthorized workers, and they oppose efforts to reduce unauthorized migration unless the government legalizes currently illegal farm workers or provides easy access to legal guest workers. The effects of migrants on agricultural competitiveness are mixed. On the one hand, wages held down by migrants keep labour-intensive commodities competitive in the short run, but the fact that most labour-intensive commodities are shipped long distances means that long-run US competitiveness may be eroded as US farmers have fewer incentives to develop labour-saving and productivity-improving methods of farming and production in lower-wage countries expands.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-43
Author(s):  
Nindy Danisa Wulandari

Development of food security implemented to meet the human basic needs that provide benefits fairly and equitably based on self – reliance, and not contrary to public faith. Referring to the government regulation No 22 of 2009 concerning Food Consumption Diversification Acceleration (P2KP). However, it is not supported by the development of women farmers. The method use in this research is quantitative descriptive analysis using SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Treath). The samples in this study is the purposive sample. Result of a study showed the amount of income earned from the group of women farmers in the one month is 150,000/ members. Proper development strategies used in the development strategies used in the development KWT Melati is a Growth Oriented Strategy is very profitable strategy to seize opportunities with the strength. Pembangunan ketahan pangan dilaksanakan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan dasar manusia yang memberikan manfaat secara adil dan merata berdasarkan kemandirian, dan tidak bertentangan dengan keyakinan masyarakat. Mengacu pada Peraturan Pemerintah No 22 Tahun 2009 mengenai Percepatan Penganekaragaman Konsumsi Pangan (P2KP). Namun, hal ini tidak didukung dengan adanya pengembangan kelompok wanita tani. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kuantitatif dengan menggunakan analisis SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Treath). Penentuan sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah dengan sampel purposive. Hasil penelitian menunjukan besaran pendapatan yang diperoleh dari adanya kelompok wanita tani dalam satu bulan adalah Rp.150.000/bulan/anggota. Strategi pengembangan yang tepat digunakan dalam pengembangan Kelompok Wanita Tani (KWT) Melati adalah Growth Oriented Strategy.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Dyah Adriantini Sintha Dewi

The Ombudsman as an external oversight body for official performance, in Fikih Siyasah (constitutionality in Islam) is included in the supervision stipulated in legislation (al-musahabah al-qomariyah). Supervision is done so that public service delivery to the community is in accordance with the rights of the community. This is done because in carrying out its duties, officials are very likely to conduct mal administration, which is bad public services that cause harm to the community. The Ombudsman is an institution authorized to resolve the mal administration issue, in which one of its products is by issuing a recommendation. Although Law No. 37 of 2018 on the Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia states that the recommendation is mandatory, theombudsman's recommendations have not been implemented. This is due to differences in point of view, ie on the one hand in the context of law enforcement, but on the other hand the implementation of the recommendation is considered as a means of opening the disgrace of officials. Recommendations are the last alternative of Ombudsman's efforts to resolve the mal administration case, given that a win-win solution is the goal, then mediation becomes the main effort. This is in accordance with the condition of the Muslim majority of Indonesian nation and prioritizes deliberation in resolving dispute. Therefore, it is necessary to educate the community and officials related to the implementation of the Ombudsman's recommendations in order to provide good public services for the community, which is the obligation of the government.


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