Proceedings of the Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2018)

The Existence of Local Wisdom Values of South Sumatra Community in Strengthening National Integration

Authors
Umi Chotimah, Alfiandra Alfiandra, Emil El Faisal, Sulkipani Sulkipani, Camellia Camellia
Corresponding Author
Sulkipani Sulkipani
Available Online November 2018.
DOI
10.2991/acec-18.2018.49How to use a DOI?
Keywords
integration; local wisdom; national; values
Abstract

The aims of this study is identifying the local wisdom values of the people of South Sumatra in strengthening national integration. The background of this research is a variety of social events are nuanced intolerant, so potential cause disintegration. That Indonesia has values that characterize unity in diversity that becomes capital to realize national integration the approach used in this research is qualitative approach with case study method. The social situation in this research is community in South Sumatera covering community’s tribe of Komering, Ogan, Pasemah, and Palembang which consists of bridal couple, bridal parent, adat chairman, and government element. Data collection techniques used are the techniques of observation, interviews, and documentation, while data analysis methods using qualitative methods consisting of data reduction, data presentation, and data verification/ withdrawal of conclusions. The findings of the field show that in general the values of local wisdom of the people in the fifth marriage’s custom include divine values, such as praying in every process performed, then the value of unity, which can be seen from the cooperation in the process of preparation and marriage implementation. And the value of democracy, which can be seen from the deliberation or mutual help that is internalized in the process. Thus, the values of local community wisdom are basically values that are generally available in every region that can strengthen national integration. Based on these findings, it is expected that the community will always internalize the values of local wisdom in the life of society, nation, state to realize national integration.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-616-7
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/acec-18.2018.49How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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