| Abstrak/Abstract |
A Deadlock Path: The Study of Phenomenology-based Ethnography of How Deforestation Devastates Suku Anak Dalams Nature-based Belief in Dharmasraya, West Sumatera. Proceeding in Borobudur Writers and Cultural Festival 2019, Magelang, 22-23 Nov 2019.
Abstract : Nor do resolutions occur over a short night, conflict on land-dispute evolve over years in the
past 25 years in Sumatra Island of Indonesia, making ecological disaster fueled by the
increase of palm oil industry. Deforestation has, of course, threatened the existence of
nomadic ethnic groups namely the Anak Dalam Tribe in the Dharmasraya forest, West
Sumatra. Studies show on how Anak Dalam’s cultural landscape is under thread due it facts,
which makes them living in a deadlock path (Chatterjee, 1994; Prasetijo, 2007). As this study
uses phenomenology-based ethnography during May-June 2019 by means of following
method of the Poniran’s Group living around the Nagari Banai (Banai Village)’s forest in
West Sumatra. The result says that the changes on land use has devastated the ritual of
“Melangun” (hunting) and burial tradition which both are embedded to the notion of
ancestral belief by using ‘sacred trees’ for worshipping and making burial ritual. For the
Anak Dalam Tribe, especially the Poniran’s group, Indonesia is still led by Sukarno and they
live in the forests of Central Sumatra; making them lost in current map based on
governmental administration. The conclusion of the study in native’s perspectives states
that according to Rombong Poniran, the forest which is considered to be a place where the
gods of “various flowers” have been destroyed due to the presence of foreign trees namely
oil palms. As they still believes that all forest belongs to the God, so it lead many conflict
between Anak Dalam and neighboring ethnics of Minangkabau. By using critical narrative in capturing the coping mechanism of Poniran’s group in nurturing their belief, the novelty of this study givers for a more opens lens with which to capture the past as well with to view the present changes of cultural landscape for marginal minorities of Anak Dalam in West Sumatra. |
