Water Resource Conservation through the Myth of Lake Guard Fish

Ridzky Firmansyah Fahmi

2017

Abstract

Water plays an important life for the life of ecosystem. Poor water resource management will result in water scarcity and as a consequence, drought and clean water crisis are unavoidable. Further, the availability or the scarcity of water gives impact on economic growth of local society (Ward, 2013). This research was based on a phenomenon of clean water crisis in Indonesia, especially in Tasikmalaya. In this city, there is a natural lake used as the water source for the paddy field and fishery. In order to keep the water resource, the conservation is done by, one of them, making people believe on the myth of lake guard fish. This research was underpinned by a pragmatics theory, viewing literature as a text that is able to influence readers and used descriptive method. The results showed that the myth of lake guard fish becomes the medium to manage the water resource derived from natural lake of Situ Cibeureum. Water availability in Situ Cibeureum can be maintained because of the belief on the myth. The people believe that Situ Cibeureum will never be a let-up by reason of ‘Si Layung’ and ‘Si Kohkol’ roles in guarding the lake condition. If the myth of lake guard fish never exists, it is very possible that Situ Cibeureum is exploited for capitalist industries and natural lake will change its function becoming residential areas or recreational industries, breaking the balance of nature.

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Fahmi R. (2017). Water Resource Conservation through the Myth of Lake Guard Fish.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 542-547. DOI: 10.5220/0007170605420547


in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Ridzky Firmansyah Fahmi},
title={Water Resource Conservation through the Myth of Lake Guard Fish},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={542-547},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007170605420547},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Water Resource Conservation through the Myth of Lake Guard Fish
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Fahmi R.
PY - 2017
SP - 542
EP - 547
DO - 10.5220/0007170605420547