Process, Values and Local Wisdom of the Martabas (Saying Mantra) and Natural Resources Utilization in the Simalungun Indigenous Society in Indonesia

Nenni Triana Sinaga, Robert Sibarani, Pujiati, Budi Agustono

2018

Abstract

Various methods and approaches have been utilised to search the oral tradition of Simalungun’s martabas (or saying mantra) which still has strong roots in villages in which villagers remain to hold their cultural bases. The utilization of different methods and approaches are aimed at understanding the cultural representations of process, values, and local wisdom which are considered urgent especially when the local community concerned are willing to have options in solving their problems, that is, traditional treatments. Since the research tries to understand the conceptualisations of abstract ideas which were identified from the oral stories told by participants as well as from practices, semi-structured interviews were carried out with the indigenous Simalungun people to open the cultural domains. The results show that in the martabas as folk beliefs the process, values, and local wisdom represent the embodied experiences which are important as vehicles of expressions and culturally influenced by the spirit of abstract world. We argue that while culturally influenced process, values, and local wisdom shall mark the participants who are strange in their ways of doing, a direct look at their underlying frameworks finds that they spiritually connect with unseen world that is intrinsic to their experiences. Understanding the martabas’s process, values, and local wisdom can contribute to the expansion of Simalungun’s local genius which is perhaps unreasonable anymore in the modern life although the martabas remains to exist up to now

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Triana Sinaga N., Sibarani R., Pujiati. and Agustono B. (2018). Process, Values and Local Wisdom of the Martabas (Saying Mantra) and Natural Resources Utilization in the Simalungun Indigenous Society in Indonesia. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD, ISBN 978-989-758-543-2, pages 309-317. DOI: 10.5220/0009902100002480

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icnrsd18,
author={Nenni Triana Sinaga and Robert Sibarani and Pujiati and Budi Agustono},
title={Process, Values and Local Wisdom of the Martabas (Saying Mantra) and Natural Resources Utilization in the Simalungun Indigenous Society in Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD,},
year={2018},
pages={309-317},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009902100002480},
isbn={978-989-758-543-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD,
TI - Process, Values and Local Wisdom of the Martabas (Saying Mantra) and Natural Resources Utilization in the Simalungun Indigenous Society in Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-543-2
AU - Triana Sinaga N.
AU - Sibarani R.
AU - Pujiati.
AU - Agustono B.
PY - 2018
SP - 309
EP - 317
DO - 10.5220/0009902100002480