From Sunrise of Java to Santet of Java: Recent Urban Symbolism Of Banyuwangi, Indonesia

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10.2991/icskse-18.2019.28How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Santet, Urban Symbolism

Abstract

Some of Indonesian people believe that misfortunes such as illness, death, crop failure, the death of livestock, and divorce is caused by individuals with certain magical power and knowledge—what then called “santet”. Together with Lombok and Banten, Banyuwangi is among the areas believed to be the warehouse of witchcraft. Those evil and cheaty trick attached to banyuwanginese talent born, something that supposedly rooted in the myth from the past. Islam as majority religion on contemporary Banyuwangi, condemn those sorcery and witchcraft practices, but rather than disappearing under the mass influence of Islam, Banyuwanginese people pick “santet” as their identities, as shown on their city’s tagline “Banyuwangi Kota Santet”.

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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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TI  - From Sunrise of Java to Santet of Java: Recent Urban Symbolism Of Banyuwangi, Indonesia
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