Sang Kuriang as “Sundanese Oedipus” reviewed: the origin of the myth beside the psycho-analysis (original) (raw)
Related papers
Bui Hangi-The Deity's Human Wife. Analysis of a myth from Pura, Eastern Indonesia
uni-frankfurt.de
For the last 70 years Protestantism and governmental influence are the main factors contributing to change in the Alor archipelago. Consequently peoples’ thinking and acting is today strongly influenced by Christianity, which makes a study of the suppressed local traditions difficult. When a myth was used as the main theme of a documentary film on that area, a quasi-experimental situation arose in which an in-depth observation of traditional believes and their conflict with Christianity became possible. The selected myth deals with one aspect of the traditional marriage rules that may put even deity under obliged to help people. As such, it challenges the Christian way to approach and understand the sacred.
Javanese kings, dramas, and women
2007
Many Indonesiaologists have discussed the politics, society, and history of Indonesia based on cultural approaches. Anderson 1990 discussed how Javanese kings had constructed their system of justification of being the kings, based on their culturally unique concept of Javanese power, and heightened their cultural prestige. This paper will discuss how the Javanese kings, above all the current king, called Sultan, Raja, Hamengkubuwana IX and X, have justified their legitimacy as the right kings of Java, based on our analysis of the concept of Javanese power discussed by Anderson before, and on my own extensive fieldwork of the 1980s in which I interviewed the king, princes and princesses, court servants, ex-court dancers, as well as people outside of the court. Historically, the scholarly approach to Java has been based on cultural approach, from which postcolonialism and orientalism came into existence, and later developed to Anderson’s discussion of imagined communities, in which An...
Indonesian folktales: feminism and the query of femaleness
LEKSIKA
This paper aims to study about the query of femaleness in Indonesian folktales from the feminism approach. It is taken into account due to women’s subordination that allegedly implies the negation of femaleness. In particular, the perpetual story of Malin Kundang represents that owing to her weakness, a woman is a subordinate creature. It happens when Malin Kundang denies the appearance of her mother after a series of successes he makes. Another popular story, Sangkuriang, even depicts that due to her beauty, a woman is an object of sex. It is seen when Sangkuriang proposes Dayang Sumbi to be his wife because of his inability of recognising her as his mother after some year banishment. The subordination eventually drives the two women to struggle against it in order to defend their dignity. The mother of Malin Kundang spells him to be a stone and Dayang Sumbi overtly refuses Sangkuriang’s proposal. Their struggles are of course valued of the morali...
The King Who Loves Sex: The Functions of Literature in Traditional Malay Poetry
International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, 2015
For the traditional Malay society, it is taboo to talk openly about sexuality. This is due to the perception that literary works that incorporate elements of sexuality will be criticised as weak and inferior work coming from an author with bad morals and character. Furthermore, the traditional Malay authors wrote at the request of the king. Hence, all that was written had to exalt the status of the king as the sovereign ruler. The works should be rich in 'character', so as to consolidate the integration of intellectual, epistemological and cultural values for the moral benefit of the community. However, in examining the literary genre of Hikayat such as Syair Seratus Siti, it has been found that these works include so many elements of sexuality that they indirectly reflect a gender system that was supported by the society. Using Braginsky's (2001) perspective about the function of literature, this study will weave together two literary functions for entertainment and instruction at the same time. This means that elements of 'sexuality' (entertainment) must be synthesized with teaching functions for the benefit of the audience. The results show that Syair Seratus Siti successfully exploited those functions to the extent that they submerged the elements of sexuality that were reflected by the author from the start.
2018
The traditional Javanese literature consists of sexual education. This research will reveal the intellectual of Javanese community with sex education that is contained in the data source of Tembang ‘traditional song’ as Javanese literary such as Serat Wewadining Palakrama, Serat Asmaragama, Serat Pangawikan Lakirabi, Marta Pangrawit, Serat Wirasating Wanita, and Serat Centhini. The aims of this paper is to examine the local wisdom behind the Javanese language in Javanese text that is contained of th e intelligence of ethnolinguistic Javanese sexual education. The result of this research are showed that the composition of Javanese sexual texts contained a mind-set, a worldview, a life view and a local knowledge system of Javanese in sex education. Sexual intercourse is placed in a great and sacred position to lead a religiosity. Keyword: the local wisdom, sexual text, Ethnolinguistic, Javanese literature.
The Power of the King of Java in the Indonesian Novel
2021
Indonesian literature reflects and represents the power narrated by the figures of the kings of Java. The narrative can be seen in the novels of Airlangga, Arok Dedes, and Minak Jinggo Sekar Kedaton. Research that uses socio-historical approach is analysed based on critical discourse analysis and interpreted using hermeneutics as a qualitative descriptive research method. The result of this study are in the form of descriptive and power conflicts of Javanese kings in the Airlangga, Arok Dedes, and Minak Jinggo Sekar Kedaton novels from the ideological, sociological, and cultural aspects which presented critically according to their review. Ideologically, sociologically and culturally presented in the novel Airlangga, Arok Dedes, and Minak Jinggo Sekar Kedston are nostalgic representations of history and heroism, Javanese human history which is full of intrigue, division, resistance, heroism, and struggle for rights, thrones, property, dignity and self-esteem. Keywords—Javanese kings...
Poetika
The legend of the forbidden love relationship between Joko Lancur and Dewi Amirah is much more than just an oral story. This story is still believed to be true so that it affects the socio-cultural life of the Ponorogo community in Indonesia. This study aims to describe the impact and function of the legend in the life of the people of Ponorogo. This study uses a sociology of literature perspective. Data were collected through 1) observation, 2) documentation, and 3) interviews with some informants. The results showed that the legend of Joko Lancur and Dewi Amirah is still deeply rooted in the social fabric of the people of Golan Village and Mirah Hamlet in Ponorogo. This legend is believed to be true by the communities in the two regions so it has an impact on the way they view the social relations between the two regions. The people of both regions believe that members of Golan community will never be able to live together with those of Mirah community. If this taboo is violated, ...
Krimuning’s Laku Action in Novel KrimuningDewiOntang-Anting :Javanese Religious Studies
Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st Seminar and Workshop on Research Design, for Education, Social Science, Arts, and Humanities, SEWORD FRESSH 2019, April 27 2019, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, 2019
The novel KrimuningDewiOntang-Anting (KDOA), published in Semarang in 2017, contains the religious aspects of KarimunJawa society. This study aims to examine the religious aspects of Javanese life in the 21st century as illustrated in the novel KDOA. In particular, to understand the laku done by the character Krimuning in the novel. This study uses the theory of laku in the perspective of Javanese religion with an objective approach. The benefit of this research is to give an idea of laku of the KarimunJawa society represented by Krimuning in the novel KDOA. The result of the analysis reveals that Krimuning represents the laku of KarimunJawa society in terms of their anxiety in facing life. The conclusion of the research is that in the modern era, laku still have a very important role in KarimunJawa societyas described in the novel KDOA.
"Gender at Sea" - Yearbook of Women's History/Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis 41, 2023
As an archipelagic state consists of 17.000 islands, myth derived from indigenous experience with maritime life is very common in Indonesia. Maritime activities are seen as the backbone of civilization and livelihood for many coastal communities, as well as danger and threat to the authorities in hinterland which try to maintain status quo against foreign influence from ‘sabrang’, places across the sea. This research aims to investigate a common pattern found in myth about the arrival of stranger queens from the sea who then established the ruling local dynasties in Sulawesi. The selected myth shows similarity in the term of migration of foreign women and their supranatural powers as the key for their authority over local population. Furthermore, this research aims to compare the myth of stranger sea queens in Sulawesi to Javanese depiction of the same characters based on local texts and believe. The worship of Kanjeng Ratu Kidul by Mataram court as an exiled princess from Pajajaran who inhabits the Southern Sea and the story of stranded Princess Ong Tien from China, the ancestress of Cirebonese sultans tell us about how sea becomes symbol of redemption and resurrection for these female characters. Lastly, a close observation to a historical figure of Ratu Kalinyamat of Jepara, the queen of an important trading port in the 16th century will be conducted to analyze how her connection to maritime life made her viewed by Javanese authors as fierce, deeply mystical but also sensual.