Proceedings of International Conference on Issues in Social and Education Research (ICISER 2017)

Old house, new meaning: The change and persistence of ume kbubu in Oinlasi, South Amanatun, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Authors
Semiarto A. Purwanto, Indraini Hapsari
Corresponding Author
Semiarto A. Purwanto
Available Online December 2018.
Keywords
Ume kbubu, traditional house, Timor, Indonesia, development, change and persistence, hybrid knowledge
Abstract

While the state plays important role in actively transforming the communities into a condition that they imagined as developed, some persistences are taking place at the micro level. Our short ethnographic observation among the Dawan at the village of Oinlasi, South Amanatun, East Nusa Tenggara revealed the dynamics of ume kbubu, the traditional house of the Timorese, that has experienced some changes as consequence of the introduction of healthful housing program commenced by the Ministry of Health some fifty years ago. We examined that this program, along with other development packages, have changed the traditional life of the communities there; however we also witnessed that communities were actually response to the changes. These traditional houses are in some cases built with modern materials, equipped with electricity, and used only as a kitchen while the family live in a modern-healthful housing nearby. It is our conclusion that the ume kbubu as we seen today is neither traditional or modern house but a hybrid configuration of knowledge that show friction in the process of development.

Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

Download article (PDF)

Volume Title
Proceedings of International Conference on Issues in Social and Education Research (ICISER 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2018
ISBN
null
ISSN
2352-5398
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

Cite this article

TY  - CONF
AU  - Semiarto A. Purwanto
AU  - Indraini Hapsari
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Old house, new meaning: The change and persistence of ume kbubu in Oinlasi, South Amanatun, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of International Conference on Issues in Social and Education Research (ICISER 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 116
EP  - 118
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/55910579
ID  - Purwanto2018/12
ER  -