The Relevance of Prophetic Perfective of Folklore Based on Values of Characters on Rembang Regency
- Keywords
- relevance, folklore, prophetic, character
- Abstract
Folklore as part of literature plays pivotal role in forming nation’s characters. Likewise, in term of mental formation, the world in folklore is a world built on the dialectics space of the beauty and value. This paper was aimed to reveal the relevance of prophetic perspective of folklore in Rembang. The researcher conducted descriptive qualitative method and data collection techniques through interviews, documentation, literature studies with record and note techniques. In selecting the object for this paper, it was based on the level of local wisdom in Rembang which is typical as a coastal area. Based on data tracking, there are three folklore originally from Rembang that have three aspects of prophetic perspective, namely humanist, liberal, and transcendent. These three prophetic perspectives have relevance to the five main values of character, namely religious, integrity, nationalist, mutual cooperation, and independence. This relevance showed that there is a close correlation between folklore and character formation. Based on these findings, the researcher hopes that the prophetic perspective of folklore could provide alternative solution to strengthen the character and reveal a culture based on local wisdom.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - U'um Qomariyah PY - 2018/11 DA - 2018/11 TI - The Relevance of Prophetic Perfective of Folklore Based on Values of Characters on Rembang Regency BT - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 131 EP - 135 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25906078 ID - Qomariyah2018/11 ER -