Open AccessThe local wisdom of the coastal community of Bakaran Village, Central Java, Indonesia, in maintaining rice to improve the food security
Author(s) -
Rahman Latif Alfian,
Budiawati Supangkat Iskandar,
Budi Gunawan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
asian journal of ethnobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2580-4510
DOI - 10.13057/asianjethnobiol/y010105
Subject(s) - prosperity , food security , java , meaning (existential) , ethnography , local community , business , sociology , political science , geography , law , agriculture , anthropology , psychology , computer science , programming language , archaeology , psychotherapist
Abstract. Alfian RL, Iskandar BS, Gunawan B. 2018. The local wisdom of the coastal community of Bakaran Village, Central Java, Indonesia, in maintaining rice to improve the food security. Asian J Ethnobiol 1: 47-52. On the basis of tradition, the community of Bakaran Village, Juwana, Pati, Central Java has prohibited (pantang) to sell of the cooked rice (nasi). This prohibition or Pantangan of the Bakaran community appears to be due to Nyai Ageng Bakaran, the founder of the village. The aim of the present study was to elucidate the meaning of prohibition (pantangan) on the selling of cooked rice, and its functions for improving food security in the village. The qualitative with ethnographical and ethnoecological approach was applied in this study. Several techniques namely the observation, participant observation, the deep interview, and the literature study were carried out. The result of the study shows that the Pantangan of selling the cooked rice was initially undertaken based on a story of Nyai Ageng Bakaran that provided a message to his community not to sell the cooked rice and better sharing it with others. This Pantangan has some meaning and values, such as instilling the values of mutual sharing, helping and caring among the community members. In addition, Pantangan teaches that prosperity is not always measured with the money, but keeping people away from starving is a form of prosperity. The Pantangan functions as one of the ways by which Bakaran community ensures the security of food needs. Indeed, the Pantangan is also functioned as a form of actualization of their identity.