The Role of Sasi As A Local Wisdom Based Environmental Sustainability

DOI

10.2991/iclick-18.2019.16How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Local Wisdom; Prohibition of Sasi; Kei Tribe; Southeast Maluku; values and norms.

Abstract

The life of a society, principally, complies a complex set of rules, such as norms, beliefs, rules, laws, and so on. Those are what drives people to behave. Thus it can be said that the values and norms are the guides for people to carry out their daily activities. One of the values and norms adhered by Kei society is Sasi. Sasi can be interpreted as a ban which is utilized by indigenous peoples of Kei to keep the border area of land and sea including certain natural resources to preserve and maintain the quality and population of natural resources. The rules and execution of prohibitions also relates to the relationships of human-nature and between humans in the particular region. Sasi is essentially an effort to regulate the society life including the equity distribution of resources which belongs to the area. This research uses descriptive method with qualitative data obtained through observation and interview. Informants in this study are the people in Kei Besar and Kei Kecil with criteria: community leaders, government officials and indigenous officials. The result shows that the use of sasi or the prohibition in the Kei society is a local wisdom to conserve natural resources from excessive exploitation. Sasi is a very sacred value system that symbolizes the sisters of the Kei tribe in southeast Maluku, whose

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Priyo Subekti
AU  - Heru Ryanto Budiana
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - The Role of Sasi As A Local Wisdom Based Environmental Sustainability
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Life, Innovation, Change and Knowledge (ICLICK 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 73
EP  - 76
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/iclick-18.2019.16
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