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ARCA BATU SAKE: PENJAGA BUKIT BERIBIT (SAKÉ STONE STATUE: THE KEEPER OF BUKIT BERIBIT)
Author(s) -
Vida Pervaya Rusianti Kusmartono,
Imam Hindarto
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
kindai etam/kindai etam
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2620-6927
pISSN - 2541-1292
DOI - 10.24832/ke.v5i1.50
Subject(s) - humanities , art , geography
Pada waktu manusia mulai sadar bahwa terdapat hakikat di alam semesta yang lebih ‘besar’ dan ‘berkuasa’ yang dapat mempengaruhi kelangsungan hidupnya, manusia berupaya untuk dapat mempersonifikasikan ‘kekuatan’ tersebut. Upaya personifikasi ini ditujukan agar ‘kekuatan’ alam lebih bersifat teraba oleh indera manusia. Wujud personifikasi tersebut dapat berupa struktur, gambar arang, lukisan cadas, atau arca, yang dijumpai di situs-situs gua atau situs terbuka di Nusantara. Salah satu wujud personifikasi alam yang ditemukan di Bukit Beribit di pedalaman hutan Sintang di bagian barat Kalimantan adalah arca Sake. Gejala yang menarik dari arca Sake ini adalah sosok dan sifat kesendiriannya, di tengah belantara hutan hujan tropis di lembah selatan Pegunungan Müller, tanpa didampingi komponen lain yang mendukung keberadaannya. Arca Sake ini berupa bentukan monolit vulkanis setinggi 2 meter, dan disebut sebagai ‘batu Tenavak’ oleh masyarakat Ot Danum. Arca serupa belum ditemukan di kawasan lain di Kalimantan. Apakah sebenarnya arca Sake ini? Etnohistori menyebutkan dua versi tentang arca tersebut, yaitu sebagai tanda mata perkawinan Rikai kepada Panjan, dan sebagai perisai spiritual atas serangan musuh terhadap etnis Ot Danum. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif-deskriptif dengan penalaran induktif. Penalaran tersebut diuraikan dengan cara menggambarkan secara rinci data yang telah dikumpulkan, merekamnya secara verbal dan piktoral, dianalisis, untuk selanjutnya disintesiskan. Arca Sake diinterpretasikan sebagai figur arca penjaga, yang konsep pengarcaannya mengambil unsur campuran wujud binatang-binatang amfibi dan reptil dari konsep religi tua, dan berfungsi menjaga kawasan hutan Bukit Beribit.When human began to realize that there was an entity in the universe that was 'bigger' and 'powerful' that can affect their survival, human strived to personify such 'power'. This effort was intended so that the 'strength' of nature was more tangible to human senses. Such personification can take the form of structures, charcoal drawings, rock paintings, or statues, which can be found in cave sites or open sites in Nusantara. One manifestation of this nature personification found at Bukit Beribit in the depths of the Sintang forest in western Kalimantan is the Sake stone statue. An interesting phenomenon about the Sake stone statue is its form and solitariness, in the midst of tropical rainforests in the southern valley of Pegunungan Müller, unaccompanied by components that support its existence. The Sake stone statue is of a volcanic monolith as high as 2 meters, and is called the 'Tenavak stone' by the Ot Danum community. Similar statues have not been found in other regions of Kalimantan. What exactly is the Sake stone statue? The Ot Danum ethnohistory mentions two versions of its identity, i.e. as a dowry from Rikai to Panjan, and as a spiritual shield to prevent the Ot Danum from enemy attacks. This research was conducted using qualitative-descriptive methods with inductive reasoning. The arguments were described by depicting the collected data in detail, recording them verbally and pictorially, analysed and eventually synthesized them. The Sake stone statue was interpreted as a figure of a keeper, where the sculpture takes on an element of mixture of animals amphibian and reptile from old religious concepts, and serves to protect the forest region of Bukit Beribit.

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