Democracy in The Kingdom of Bugis (Noble Value Study in The Kingdom of Bone Century XVI)

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10.2991/icss-18.2018.225How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Democracy, Noble Value, Bugis Kingdom

Abstract

This paper describes democracy and noble values in the Bugis Kingdom, especially in the XVI century of the Kingdom of Bone which can be traced from a written text in the form of lontara from intellectual though. The approach used to analyze this study is a historical approach in a descriptive analysis with stages namely; heuristics, criticism, interpretation and historiography. The results of the study show that one of the principles of democracy found in the Bugis lontara, the king's decree can be canceled by adat, the custom can be canceled by the agreement of the royal family / nobility, then the decree of the king / nobility can be canceled by the will of the people. So in essence the highest decision in the administration of government in the Bugis Kingdoms is with the people. Then the strengthening of the principle of democracy is supported by the values of honesty, intelligence, decisiveness, courage, propriety and humanizing each other.

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© 2018, 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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