Authority and Function of Pecalang Organization in Maintaining Public Safety and Conformity (Research Study in Dangin Puri Kaja Village, Denpasar)
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210304.125How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Function, Pecalang, Denpasar, Dangin Puri
- Abstract
A pecalang (Balinese religious leader) has a lot of responsibilities. Not only maintaining village safety, especially related with religion and ceremonial matters, but also maintaining the safety of complex public activities. Therefore, a pecalang should not only having abilities related with tradition and religious issues, but also having the ability to solve immigrant residents in Dangin Puri Kaja Village of Denpasar. Based on such understanding, it is important to understand the characteristics of authority and function of Pecalang organization in Dangin Puri Kaja Village, and what are the difficulties faced in performing their authoritative duties. Qualitative method is used in this research, using interview research instrument. From the research, it can be understood that the authority of pecalang of Dangin Puri Kaja Village of Denpasar includes public safety and conformity of Dauh Puri Kaja Village monitoring, public safety duties in Dangin Puri Kaja Village in terms of religious and tradition, and appointed and dismissed by Dangin Puri Kaja Village. Several difficulties faced by Pecalang of Dangin Puri Kaja Village including the unavailability of dedicated office or post until now, therefore hindering their public official duties.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- 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 - M M Sofyan AU - E I Supriyadi PY - 2021 DA - 2021/03/08 TI - Authority and Function of Pecalang Organization in Maintaining Public Safety and Conformity (Research Study in Dangin Puri Kaja Village, Denpasar) BT - Proceedings of the 1st Paris Van Java International Seminar on Health, Economics, Social Science and Humanities (PVJ-ISHESSH 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 558 EP - 561 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210304.125 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210304.125 ID - Sofyan2021 ER -