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Between Economic Burden and Cultural Dignity: Belis in the Marital Custom of the NTT Society Rodliyah, Siti -
KOMUNITAS: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDONESIAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE Vol 9, No 1 (2017): Komunitas, March 2017
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/komunitas.v9i1.8672

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The indigenous marital system giving belis ‘bride price’ practiced by the East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Indonesia, is one of the Nusantara marital custom phenomena that  today has developed and raised issues of both pros and cons which deserves critical scrutiny from Cultural studies and Anthropological perspective. Both perspectives facilitate the critical standpoint of the NTT society’s mindset summarized in the cultural or customary marriage rules requiring a marriage with belis. This study revealed that in the attitude towards belis, the East Nusa Tenggara women agreed and taken for granted the construction of their reality and power production through various discourses. Current practice of belis raises the economic capitalism up to the identity contestations. Lately, the essence and value of belis have changed and are likely to be more commercial. Even some may view it as mere a symbol and customary fixtures, such as in the region of Lamaholot imposing the elephant tusks, and the Allor society with their Moko as the payment methods of belis.  Belis has left biggest challenge for the communities who are not able to afford higher bride-price objects, this consequently lead to a more emerging unlawful marriages as a resistance against the unresolved poverty problems.
Pembentukan Tubuh Perempuan Flores Dalam Tradisi Belis Siti Rodliyah
Kawruh : Journal of Language Education, Literature and Local Culture Vol 4, No 1 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Veteran Bangun Nusantara Sukoharjo

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32585/kawruh.v4i1.2245

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The Belis tradition has been carried out by the people of Flores since hundreds of years ago. The belis tradition is part of the customary law of marriage in the cultural area of the Flores community. The term belis can be matched with the meaning of a dowry or an award given by a male family to a female family for proposing to a woman who will then enter into a male family clan or tribe. This study aims to reveal the formation of the female body in the Belis tradition of the Flores community. The research method uses descriptive qualitative method with content analysis techniques. The result is that the tradition of giving belis is maintained as a guarantor of human reproduction. The belis tradition which later became the great narrative of the Flores culture, made it a very strong cultural logocentrism. Belis tradition can be said as a reaction to the doctrine that women have reproductive tasks like machines. In conclusion, it can be said that this belis tradition is also the background of the Flores woman's body. The female body becomes a metaphor for mapping social life to reflect reality. In the end, it is increasingly recognized that perception of the body is more a sociocultural construct.
PERLAWANAN SENYAP TERHADAP SISTEM PERNIKAHAN ADAT MELALUI SASTRA TULIS: NOVEL BELIS IMAMAT, KARYA INYO SORO Siti Rodliyah
Paramasastra : Jurnal Ilmiah Bahasa Sastra dan Pembelajarannya Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018): Vol 5 no 1 Bulan Maret 2018
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Surabaya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26740/paramasastra.v5n1.p%p

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ABSTRACTBelis Imamat (BI), sebuah novel karya Inyo Soro menceritakan tentang perjalanan hidup seorang calon pastor (Iting), bercita-cita menentang tirani belis (mas kawin) yang dirasa menjadi sumber berbagai masalah sosial sepanjang generasi. Pokok bahasan dalam penelitian ini mengangkat fenomena sosial-budaya yang dikemas penulis melalui sebuah novel, pandangan dunia penulis, dan nilai pendidikan yang tercermin dalam novel tersebut. Teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan analisis dokumen, mulai dari tahap membaca, pencatatan dan kemudian analisis dokumen. Pandangan Inyo Soro tentang keberadaan belis dalam adat-istiadat masyarakat Nusa Tenggara Timur sebagaimana diceriterakan dalam novel belisImamat mengungkapkan bahwa belis memang sebuah tradisi yang mencerminkan pernikahan tradisional yang sangat memberatkan, bahkan lebih dari itu, belis sering mengikis nilai-nilai cinta dan kemanusiaan. Disamping menjadi syarat sahnya sebuah hubungan perkawinan, tradisi yang kuat dan tak terelakkan anggota masyarakat yang menjunjung tinggi belis menunjukkan pandangan alternatif seorang penulis terhadap esensi belis dengan sesuatu yang bernilai lebih tinggi daripada materi yakni gelar kehormatan Imamat. Pentahbisan gelar imamat merupakan pengganti bagi belis orang tua yang pernah terhutang, yang pada dasarnya sebagai refleksi hakikat belis itu sendiri.Keywords: Belis Imamat; novel; adat; masyarakat
NTT Ikat Woven Cloths: Weaving Tradition, Motifs and their Symbolic Meanings Siti Rodliyah
Jurnal Antropologi: Isu-Isu Sosial Budaya Vol 26, No 1 (2024): June
Publisher : Universitas Andalas

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25077/jantro.v26.n1.p35-41.2024

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For most of the East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) people, waving traditions and ikat woven products are not just common local product or cultural manifestations. Each motif in ikat woven product has its own symbolic representation. This is a qualitative descriptive study carried out using an ethnographic research model. The data was collected by observing a number of ikat artisans and their cloth products, providing deep interview to related parties in the manufacturing process including meanings behind the decorative motifs in the ikat woven clothes. This study relies on of data notes linked to the research object as well as images of woven ikat cloth products in NTT.  The result showed that the woven cloth products locally manufactured in NTT, with varied ornamentation and motifs are subject to local knowledge values and symbolic meanings that have a spiritual and mystical aspects. Many motifs on the cloth developed identify each regional area in NTT. Ikat cloth motifs are symbols of communication tools; i.e., Ende-Lio motifs associated with traditional rituals are represented by cloth motifs are the symbols for regulations that must be implemented by the people. For people of North Mollo, NTT, ikat woven product with identical motifs have widely been used for blankets and sarongs named as Pauf designed exclusively for males to wear. In Pauf, there are two interpretations of the rhombus-shaped symbols on Lulat Pohok and Lulat Kollo, which symbolically are the expression or reflection for social interaction between society and the ruler or king.