<![CDATA[This study aims to analyze students’ creative processes in transforming folklore into songs in the Folklore Transformation Course at the Indonesian Language Education Study Program, Universitas PGRI Wiranegara, Pasuruan. It focuses on the implementation of the Folklore Transformation Model, iterative creative patterns, synchronic reproduction, and the relationship between process depth and idea maturity. A qualitative approach with a comparative case study design was employed. Data were collected through questionnaires, interviews, and documentation of students’ creative processes and works, and analyzed using seven transformation syntaxes: exploration, formulation, inquiry, reflection, production, validation, and dissemination/ reproduction. The findings show that the seven syntaxes were implemented with varying degrees of depth. Exploration was the most limited, as students tended to identify the hypotext rather than examine creative strategies in previous works, while formulation, inquiry, reflection, and production were more substantially implemented. The creative process operated iteratively through experimentation, reflection, revision, production, and validation. Synchronic reproduction emerged through the development of a single folklore hypotext into multiple creative manifestations within one cycle. Differences in transformation starting points and creative-cycle configurations indicate that deeper formulation and inquiry were associated with greater idea maturity, manifested in creative interpretation, critical reinterpretation, symbolic fragmentation, and deconstruction of the hypotext. These findings demonstrate that idea maturity is shaped not only by the final product but also by the depth and configuration of the creative process.]]>
