Sekaten Tradition; Preservation Through Commodification

DOI

10.2991/iccd-19.2019.109How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Tradition, commodification, preservation, tourism industry

Abstract

This study intends to describe the commodification practice in the sekaten traditional ceremony in Surakarta, Central Java Province, Indonesia. This study is important because the tradition has been going on since the XV century and is a medium of inheritance of local wisdom that is loaded with moral values and a philosophy of life patterned in Islam. However, nowadays the existence of the tradition is threatened by the influence of foreign culture and pop culture and its symbolic meaning is poorly understood by the younger generation. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach with a fixed, single case study strategy. The location of research in the Surakarta Palace. Data comes from tradition informants, tradition practitioners, and communities. Data is collected by in-depth interview and participatory observation techniques. The analysis was carried out by circular interactive data analysis techniques. The results of the study show that there has been a commodification practice in the Sekaten traditional ceremony through the commercialization of space and context. The commodification of the sekaten tradition is a necessity in conservation efforts because the Surakarta Palace as the owner of the tradition does not currently have sufficient funding sources, while government policy directs the existence of tradition as a support for the tourism industry with an economic orientation.

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© 2019, 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  - Nuryani Tri Rahayu
AU  - Warto
AU  - Bani Sudardi
AU  - Mahendra Wijaya
PY  - 2019/10
DA  - 2019/10
TI  - Sekaten Tradition; Preservation Through Commodification
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Community Development (ICCD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 415
EP  - 418
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccd-19.2019.109
DO  - 10.2991/iccd-19.2019.109
ID  - Rahayu2019/10
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