LOCAL CUTLERY CRAFTS OF BOTRAM FESTIVAL AT BATU LONCENG VILLAGE AS AN ACTIVATION OF CULTURAL CONSERVATION & TRADITION FOR CONSERVING NATURE

• Main Author: Gema Lafadzagat, Sakagala
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/66917
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The influence of human existence on earth greatly affects environmental changes. During the hunting and gathering period that spread, every time Homo sapiens stepped on a new area, there were generally many extinctions in its territory, extinction events occurred again when cultural imperialism was brought by globalization to villages and undermined the environmental ecosystem and local wisdom, even though there was a lot of cultural wisdom. owned by the local community that goes in harmony with nature and upholds the preservation of the surrounding environment. Collective wisdom is what regulates humans not to consume or take excessively, this is inversely proportional to modern humans who regard power and control over natural resources as progress. We are increasingly feeling the impact of consumerism and materialism as a chasm from spiritualism that separates human culture from responsibility for nature as part of the locality. In the culture of the postmodern era, creativity has an important role as a manifestation of recognizing local identity. Batu Lonceng Village is one of the villages in Indonesia which is threatened by the tradition of protecting its nature when people are increasingly pragmatic and abandon local wisdom, dependence on local materials also needs to be revitalized through collective crafts originating from local wisdom so that it does not interfere much with daily activities and local identity. This study aims to increase the thickness of local cultural identity while at the same time activating local material craft activities to build re-dependence between the community and nature by re-popularizing it through local festivals or Pesta rakyat which previously had become a tradition in Batu Lonceng Village. The introduction of contemporary crafts through the bricolage method is expected to open up new opportunities for the community to see other perspectives of its natural wealth as a form of community resilience in responding to modernist culture which is not necessarily in line with the culture of the surrounding community. This study uses qualitative ethnographic data collection methods around the Suntenjaya Village area through guided free interviews with snowball sampling which will be validated through triangularization of data. The Jinshin no hana approach is used to map solutions with the community which will later be found in an agreement through the design thinking method. In the Jinshin no hana approach, researchers will position themselves as facilitators of activities and make the community as the main actors in carrying out social change towards better cultural preservation and conservation of their own local wisdom. Meanwhile the Treasure Mapping method is used to concentrate the activation process in the form of festivals or Pesta rakyat. By providing a new interpretation of science from existing resources and local wisdom, the bricolage method was chosen as a foundation of thinking that best suited the needs to solve the problems in this project. It is hoped that appropriate products will be created that are practically applied in rural areas while at the same time preserving local wisdom in the village environment towards tourism education villages.