IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION OF ETHNICS GROUP THROUGH SAGOO (Tradisional Culture Concept on Maintaining Sago And Maintaining Lives Of Emeyode Tribe in South Sorong Regency West Papua Province)
Adolof Ronsumbre

Department of Anthropology Universitas Papua Manokwari Indonesia

Abstract

This article is the result of research conducted by the author in the Kokoda District, South Sorong, West Papua. The background of the research is the fact that sago plants are native to Indonesia, because around 90% of the worlds sago is found in Indonesia. The area of sago in Indonesia is around 5.5. million hectares, and around 5.2 million hectares of sago plants are found in Papua and West Papua. There is a strong suspicion that sago plants originated in Papua and Maluku. Papua has the largest area of sago plants in Indonesia, around 4.75 million hectares. Kokoda Regency, in South Sorong has the largest area of sago plants. Based on these facts, the research question raised in this study is why in the modern context, sago plants still exist to be maintained by an ethnic group that calls themselves Emeyode people. The method used in this research is ethnographic method. After designing the research design, the researchers were directly involved in observing the growth of sago, and observing the Emeyode ethnic group. The interview method is used to uncover concepts in the mindset of the Emeyode ethnic group, about how cultural concepts are produced and practiced to maintain the existence of sago plants as ancestral names. In this study the researchers found that the existence of sago plants in the Kokoda District was guarded by the Emeyode ethnic group. In fact, there is a kind of sago plant culture.

Keywords: sago, sago plants originated in Papua and Maluku, ethnographic

Topic: Culture

Link: https://ifory.id/abstract-plain/z8mWrNEpZvCu

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