YOGYAKARTA - Local wisdom is a societal outlook on life, encompassing values of wisdom that are essential for maintaining collective identity and can provide solutions to societal problems. It's not merely a traditional legacy of the past, but rather a way of life rooted in everyday practices.
Many forms of local wisdom exist in your life and serve as parameters for social interaction. Read the full review below to learn more about local wisdom.
What is Local Wisdom?
Generally, local wisdom is a view of life, knowledge, and various life strategies presented in the form of activities carried out by local communities. Its purpose is to address various problems in meeting their needs.
Local wisdom is a collection of local ideas filled with wisdom, good values, and prudent attitudes that are shared and implemented by community members.
According to Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 32 of 2009 concerning Environmental Protection and Management, local wisdom is defined as noble values applied in community life to protect and sustainably manage the environment.
Efforts to understand local wisdom can provide a picture of its existence as a guidepost or guide against the various global cultural assimilation processes that are vulnerable to impacting human life.
Local wisdom can take the form of knowledge derived from real experiences in society over a long period of time and is practiced continuously.
Forms of local wisdom in society can include values, norms, ethics, customs, beliefs, customary laws, and specific regulations.
Noble values of local wisdom can include love for God, the universe and its contents, discipline, independence, honesty, responsibility, respect and courtesy, self-confidence, creativity, hard work, compassion and care, perseverance, humility and kindness, justice and leadership, tolerance, love of peace, and unity.
What are the Characteristics of Local Wisdom?
Local wisdom can be identified by several characteristics, including:
- Integrated with the daily practices of communities and institutions
- Commonly used by individuals and communities
- Based on experience
- Tested after centuries of use
- Adaptable to current elements
- Closely linked to belief systems
- Dynamic in nature
Benefits of Local Wisdom
Local wisdom is a system of local culture and a reflection of community cultural behavior. It is a superior and appropriate cultural product, thus established as a guideline for community life.
Therefore, local wisdom is considered highly valuable and has special benefits in community life.
This system was developed because of the need to internalize, maintain, and sustain life according to the situation, conditions, abilities, and values internalized within the community.
According to Sartini (2006) in her book "Development of Geoscience Learning Modules Based on Local Wisdom in Matanggawe," local wisdom has the following functions:
Functions for the conservation and preservation of natural resources.
- Functions to develop human resources.
- Functions to develop culture and science.
- Functions to social significance, for example, in agricultural cycle ceremonies.
- Functions to provide advice, beliefs, literature, and taboos.
- Functions to social significance, for example, in communal/kinship integration ceremonies.
- Functions to ethical and moral significance.
- Functions to political significance, for example, in the ngangkuk merana ceremony and patron-client power.
This concludes our review of local wisdom, its characteristics, and benefits. We hope this information is helpful! Visit VOI.id for more interesting information.
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