Reptile Socialization in Efforts to Grow Community Trust in the Coconut Village of Bogor About Snakes

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10.2991/assehr.k.200323.131How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reptile socialization, myths, community knowledge

Abstract

Reptiles are the most numerous animals having creepy stories in the world community. In Indonesia, the number of reptiles is very much because it has a tropical climate, so that Indonesia become one of the countries that have the most widely spread reptile in the world. The highest number of reptile and often encountered is snake, because the snake has a strong physical among other reptile so that the snake is the longest life than the other reptile. However, the knowledge of the reptile existence in Indonesia is very lacking, because in school curricula, education on reptile is minimal. Thus, information about the reptile is dominated by the stories circulating in the society that has not been proven, so the reptile in particular the snake has a creepy and scary imagery in society. The purpose of this research is to know the strategy done by snake-keepers in providing knowledge about snakes in the community in Kelapa Bogor Village. This research uses qualitative descriptive methods. Data collection techniques are conducted with the observation and deep participation. The results of this study showed that the strategy that was conducted by the reptile in providing knowledge in the community is by socializing the reptile in various ways to the community who have different knowledge so that The knowledge slowly began to change.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Erwan Baharudin
AU  - Ernawati
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/25
TI  - Reptile Socialization in Efforts to Grow Community Trust in the Coconut Village of Bogor About Snakes
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Progressive Education (ICOPE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 262
EP  - 265
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200323.131
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200323.131
ID  - Baharudin2020
ER  -