Ethnography Study in Malang, Indonesia: Petekan Tradition in Tengger Community

Abstract

This research is discussing about a tradition in Tengger community, Indonesia. The tradition is named as Petekan which means pressing or pushing lower abdomen in order to know whether a woman who is in fertile period is pregnant or not. The tradition was conducted because of the belief that if there is a pregnant woman without married (doing free sex), the local people will be suffered by disaster or infected disease (pageblug) that is difficult to be healed. In this study, we used descriptive study by ethnographic qualitative approach. We found that Petekan ceremony has been conducted since long time ago and preserve until today. The community conducts the tradition once in three months. Almost every year, by conducting the tradition, they found a pregnant woman without marriage. The implementation of the Petekan involves all village members which shows how important if this activity for the people. Sanction for violation in the tradition is applied both for male and female.Keywords: Petekan, marriage, tradition, culture, community 1. Introduction A tradition of a community cannot be separated from values, system, norm, social behavior, social relationship, and social control. One of the well developed traditions at Tengger community is Petekan. It is an activity to press lower abdomen of a woman who is in fertile period in order to know whether she is pregnant or not. The tradition has been practiced since long time ago. In the beginning, it was conducted because of a belief that if there is a pregnant woman without marriage, the community will be suffered of disaster or infected disease (pageblug) which is difficult to be healed. Thus, tribal chief (shaman) along with the village leader (pamong praja) have initiative to conduct a preventive action for the social distortion, by doing Petekan for once in three months.The Petekan tradition is very old one so that is difficult to track when it was conducted for the first time. It is believed that this tradition only exist in village Ngadas. The Petekan tradition has two sides, both for virginity and for pregnancy test for virgin woman and widow. This activity involves all of people in the village. The continuity of this tradition needs to be kept because it is proven that it has many social functions such as to unite people in the community. With this function, many development activities can be conducted very well. This tradition is a form of local wisdom that needs to be kept. For young generation of Tengger community, they should hold the people culture tradition and it is conducted by preserving many cultural arts and traditions since currently, there are many religions have entered and influenced the Tengger community.The objectives of this research as follow: (1) to analyze Petekan tradition in Tengger community in village Ngadas, district, Malang, East Java, Indonesia, (2) to analyze what kind of value that is found in the community, and (3) to analyze social sanction or custom sanction which be conducted as social control. Literature ReviewsCultu...

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