Analyzing the Shifting Facial Expression of Ondel-ondel as the Cultural Icon of Betawi Community

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201230.016How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ondel-ondel, Facial expression, Iconography, Cultural icon, Betawi

Abstract

Ondel-ondel is one of the cultural icons of the Betawi community. It was first used to be pictured with a creepy expression because Ondel-ondel was believed to be a protective mascot that repels evil spirits and the plague in its time. However, the face of Ondel-ondel has undergone changes throughout time that lead to the popular visual form of Ondel-ondel nowaday, which later became known as one of Jakarta’s visual identities. This study uses the iconographic method to analyze the design elements on Ondel-Ondel’s face in the pre-iconography stage and compare them to the analysis presented in iconography stage to understand historical dimension of Betawi people and their values which will contributes to the interpretation concluded from these two stages. The result shows that the face of Ondel-ondel undergone changes to avoid traces of mysticism and to shift the role of Ondel-ondel in the community towards entertainment purposes devoid of myths or beliefs, especially after the Betawi community incorporated Islamic teachings into their cultural identity which forbids imitating living things into a man-made object to be deified and revered.

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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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AU  - Dhika Quarta Rosita
AU  - Martha Tisna Putri Ginanjar
AU  - Dendi Pratama
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/31
TI  - Analyzing the Shifting Facial Expression of Ondel-ondel as the Cultural Icon of Betawi Community
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Folklore, Language, Education and Exhibition (ICOFLEX 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 78
EP  - 82
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201230.016
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