Philosophical Teachings of Javanese Culture in Lakon Ludruk: Cosmological Perspective

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10.2991/assehr.k.210514.010How to use a DOI?

Keywords

local wisdom, philosophic teaching, cosmology, ludruk, character

Abstract

This study discusses the philosophical teachings of Javanese cultural wisdom with Javanese cosmology studies. The source of data is the ludruk drama on Lakon Kebo Kicak dan Babat Alas Angker. This is descriptive qualitative research by doing data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and data analysis. The results showed that there are teachings of Javanese cultural local wisdom to shape children character intelligence. Those are, first, the teachings of religious philosophy; the value of surrendering and believing in Allah’s provisions, believing in the power of Allah and if Allah wills nothing is impossible as well as the belief that Allah will provide the best thing. Second teaching found is cosmic philosophy; that humans living in the world one day will leave it and move to another world, and that someone who makes a mistake or sin forever will not be peace before the problem is resolved. Third teachings is ethical philosophicy; humans as social beings always need others even after passing away. Moreover, this teaching is also about how to respect their elders and how be able to balance their physical and spiritual life to do their obligation towards their God and their country. Fourth teaching is about improving character intelligence in children to make them more empathetic, more respect themselves and others, polite, creative, wise, patient, having sense of confidence and responsibility, sociable, critical and able to control themselves.

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© 2021, 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  - Suprapto
AU  - Sahid Teguh Widodo
AU  - Sarwiji Suwandi
AU  - Nugraheni Eko Wardani
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/17
TI  - Philosophical Teachings of Javanese Culture in Lakon Ludruk: Cosmological Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Politeness (ICLP 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 68
EP  - 76
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210514.010
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210514.010
ID  - 2021
ER  -