IDENTITY POLITIC AND WAYANG ORANG MARGINALIZATION AS THE WETU TELU CULTURAL TRADITION IN LOMBOK

I Gusti Ngurah, Seramasara IDENTITY POLITIC AND WAYANG ORANG MARGINALIZATION AS THE WETU TELU CULTURAL TRADITION IN LOMBOK. Working Paper. ISI Denpasar, Denpasar, Bali.

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Abstract

Lombok, is a cultural region that is multicultural. Lombok population is composed of various ethnicities and religions, providing ample opportunity for identity struggle. The struggle for identity is a political movement to show the contrast between one another. Political differences are developing identity politics among adherents of Islam, some of them are maintaining the tradition of WetuTelu and others are refusing tradition WetuTelu. When the Karangasemkingdom ruled in Lombok, ajaranWetuTeluwas enriched with a variety of artistic creativities. One of them wasWayangOrang, which was taken from SeratMenak story. WayangOrangwas a medium to implement the identity politics in Lombok. National political turbulence, Gerakan30 September in 1965, supported theajaranWetuTelu,it was considered as kafirand even was considered affiliated to the communism, in fact there were many people killed. . In 1968 the consolidation of Islamoccured, the term was no longer called IslamWaktuTelu, but IslamWaktuLima, so WayangOrang was marginalized as WetuTelu cultural traditions. The main problem in this paper was studied about Lombok multicultural society inidentity politic arena that caused WayangOrangwas marginalized. There was a hegemonic power that needs to be studied through the deconstruction shellac, and it offered the concept of multicultural by WayangOrang performances. WayangOrang Performing Arts was believed by adherent cultural ideology which contained cultural principles that can unite Islam religion with WetuTelu cultural heritage.

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