JAVANESE DIASPORA AND ADAPTED ECOLOGY OF JAVA ETHNIC IN SIMALUNGUN NORTH SUMATRA
Keywords:
adaptation, culture diversity, javanese diaspora, tradition, vertical mobilityAbstract
Plantation outside Java requiring workers triggers worker’s migration from Java to outside Java, any of them to Simalungun North Sumatra. This research intends to depict the process of ethnical disapora of Java in Simalungun, dynamic of life, vertical mobility and process of adaptation to the different ethcnis of Java with the origin. This research is the qualitative study with the method of collecting main data namely observation and history study for 6 households of arabica coffee farmers already spread out in Simalungun. The results of research indicate that spontaneous transmigration of Java ethnic becomes diaspora origin of Java in Simalungun. Meeting of Java and Batak culture causes pluralism or diversity of culture in which each ethnic maintains tradition as the realization of its culture personal identity. Java ethnic conducts various activities of livelihood (multiple livelihood) as the form of the different ecology adaptation in the region of origin. Culture of Java ethnic in Simalungun is established due to the local environmental effect (ecology), even though the environment is not the only one factors to form the culture. By the philosophy of “gemi nastiti ngati ati” meaning that the economic, accurate, careful attitude of Java ethnic reaches vertical mobility, one of them through the trading activity (to be the agent of arabica coffee).
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