Community Development in Indonesia: Contemporary Aspects of Culture

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201017.075How to use a DOI?

Keywords

community development, cultural values, principle of gotong royong, sasi management system, Hibua Lamo social consensus

Abstract

The paper analyzes the superiority of collectivist and cultural values in nowadays Indonesia, the impact of a cultural factor on society’s success, the possibility, and results of community development projects based on the cultural ground. To conduct the research, two parts of the country were compared: Java Island as a centre of Indonesia’s life and growth, economy epicentre, and the Moluccas archipelago, located in Eastern Indonesia, commonly considered as less developed but rich in natural resources. Both are sharing some common cultural values like gotong royong (mutual assistance) and having more specific, endemic customs (sasi). Findings of the study proved that despite the difference in the level of the economy, electronic communication, education development cultural aspect is still significant in community life. Moreover, implementing modernity and introducing bureaucracy reform with social-cultural norms as a basis of it is showing a better result in community development and economic progress. From a perspective to keep the country’s unity in diversity, reaching the economic balance between provinces, improving the life of society, and maintaining a smooth transition into modern and new technologies time cultural-value-based community development projects can become a solution.

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© 2020, 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/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ilona Pasteruk
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/20
TI  - Community Development in Indonesia: Contemporary Aspects of Culture
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Community Development (ICCD 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 338
EP  - 342
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201017.075
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201017.075
ID  - Pasteruk2020
ER  -