Paschalis Maria Laksono
Departemen Antropologi, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Gadjah Mada

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Dimakan Sayang: Turning the Common into the Exclusive, Cassava Bread (Embal) in The Kei Islands, Southeast Maluku, Indonesia P.M. Laksono
Humaniora Vol 33, No 2 (2021)
Publisher : Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/jh.66227

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This article traces changes in everyday narratives considering cassava bread (embal) in the Kei Islands. Various methods of data collection (participant observation, focused group discussion, and survey) were used, and applied purposively to produce critical narratives on the transformation of local food patterns. These data were collected over a short fieldwork period in 2016 from the villages of Wain, Rumaat, and Langgur in the Kei Islands, Southeast Maluku. As this traditional staple food is being replaced by rice, Kei people are creatively adjusting both their attitudes and appetites towards embal. Both conceptual (noetic)shifts and sensory (taste) shifts are apparent. The typical taste or flavor of embal is increasingly celebrated and regarded as a special blessing. Yet, at the same time, many young Kei are now preferring to eat imported rice more than embal. They are losing their appetite for consuming embal as a daily common food, even as they increasingly adore and celebrate it as a luxurious meal. This suggests that the villagers have become bigger consumers of imported food (rice and noodles) than their city-based counterparts. As such, embal consumers (the local food’s contributors to sovereignty) in the market will continuously be under pressure, diminishing in numbers, in accordance with the rise of its exclusive image. Such is the irony for cassava as food sovereignty in the Kei Islands.
REPRODUKSI (PERTUKARAN) PANGAN: MENYEMAI DAULAT HIDUP DI SUMBA BARAT (DAYA) Paschalis Maria Laksono; Esti Anantasari; Olga Aurora Nandiswara
Jurnal Masyarakat dan Budaya Vol. 21 No. 3 (2019)
Publisher : LIPI Press

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.14203/jmb.v21i3.747

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Abstrak Pada orang Kodi di Kabupaten Sumba Barat (Daya), bagaimana pun ekonomi itu, masih menyatu dalam totalitas organisasi sosial sistem kekerabatan yang dibayangkan memancar dari sistem kepercayaan pada Marapu, yaitu seorang ayah sekaligus ibu pencipta dan perawat kehidupan (Ama Mawolo Ina Marawi). Oleh karena itu garis kerabat baik dari sisi ayah maupun ibu, masing-masing secara kreatif dilantunkan demi tegaknya moralitas pertukaran, yaitu jalannya ekonomi-Uma. Secara simbolik pertukaran itu diritualkan pada pesta adat. Artikel ini dapat diperlakukan sebagai penggalan reflektif cuplikan dari proses penelitian partisipatoris berkesinambungan yang masih terus berlangsung sejak tahun 2015. Proses itu terkait dengan usaha bersama warga masyarakat untuk memilih dan mereproduksi moda pertukaran pangan, tanpa harus menjadi peminta-minta (mandara uang), di pulau-pulau kecil di Maluku dan Nusa Tenggara Timur demi kedaulatan pangan mereka. Oleh karena itu di sini Sumba Barat Daya akan terkoneksikan secara komparatif dengan kabupaten dan pulau-pulau lainnya. Abstarct For Kodi's people in Southwest Sumba Regency, their economy is still based on social kinship organizations, which can be seen from the belief system in Marapu,that is a father and a creator and a guardian of life (Ama Mawolo Ina Marawi). Therefore, both the father and mother's kinship lines, each creatively revealed for the sake of the morality of exchange, that is the continuation of the Uma-economy. Symbolically the exchange is ritualized at a traditional ritual. This article can be treated as a reflective fragment of footage from a continuous participatory research process that has continued since 2015. The process is related to the effort with community members to choose and reproduce food exchange modes, without being a beggar (mandara uang), on small islands in Maluku and East Nusa Tenggara for their food sovereignty. Therefore, in this article Southwest Sumba will be connected comparatively with other districts and islands.
Pelatihan dan Pembelajaran Metode Riset Aksi Partisipatoris Untuk Pemajuan Kebudayaan Paschalis Maria Laksono
Bakti Budaya: Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat Vol 1, No 2 (2018)
Publisher : Faculty of Cultural Sciences

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (452.535 KB) | DOI: 10.22146/bb.41091

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Sumba as one of the 3T (Tertinggal/Disadvantaged, Terdepan/frontmost, Terluar/Outermost)regions in Indonesia has a crisis of acculturation in its development, where local customs andculture are no longer able to meet the demands of renewal of the development. Many scholars haveconducted research and studies on Sumba and meanwhile, not a few Sumba people go outside Sumbato study and are expected to bring change to the land of Sumba. However, the crisis still occurs.Community Action Plans (CAP) are a way for the community to participate in the development.What is often questioned is the quality of the CAP itself which was conceived as a bottom-up effortin the development. Anthropology with its ethnographic methods and holistic participatory researchmethods can enrich the CAP to structure it to be more qualifed by considering the principles ofcultural advancement.Tis training and learning of participatory action research methods offer a way to explore sociocultural capitals as the identity of the community to adjust to the changing times that occur throughdevelopment. Te Sumba student community who are studying in Yogyakarta and its surroundingsare invited to play a role through the training and learning of the CAP-based culture promotionmethod so that they are expected to become pioneers in the development of Sumba culture throughactive community participation in Sumba. In addition, the Sumba community is expected to changeas the times progress towards a more prosperous world without leaving their identity as Sumba people.