Function of Traditional Art lKarungutr in Character Building Education of Dayak People in Central Kalimantan

Abstract

On this modern era, many people only concern about how to improve the cognitive and psychomotor as the results of their children's education process. They usually did many ways to increasing that aspect but sometimes they forget the affective (attitudes) of their children. The affective aspect, which also known as character building may be interpreted as a series of planned activities conducted by adults to learners; in a purpose the learners may have knowledge and understanding and be able to apply the life values such as goodness, truth and sincerity as their everyday's habits. As the other tribes, Dayak's people in Central Kalimantan also have ways and tools which are functioned in character building, one of which is through traditional art named "Karungut". Karungut is a kind of oral art sung with particular rhymes and accompanied with traditional instrument named "Kecapi". This research aims to describe and analyze the function of Karungut in character building of Dayak's people in Central Kalimantan. The approach used in this research is one to describe and analyze the utterances or opinions of group of people or community, therefore the approach used by the researcher is qualitative. While the kind of ethnographic approach was used considering the objects being described and analyzed is a culture or system of social groups, including mindset, habits, and ways of Dayak's living in Central Kalimantan. Research data were collected using interview and documentation towards source people including: Karungut artists, community leaders, and Dayak's customary leaders. According to the data, the results concluded are: (1) There were 4 (four) functions of Karungut in character education building of Dayak's people in Central Kalimantan, namely: (a) informative function, (b) affirmative function, (c) persuasive function, and (d) prohibition function.

The oral tradition of sansana bandar of Dayak Ngaju, Central Kalimantan: religious function and inheritance challenge in global era

“…Asi's study describes the process of carrying out sansana and does not focus on sansana Bandar in relation to religious and inheritance functions in the global era. Other studies that have been carried out previously and raised the focus of the study of oral traditions in Central Kalimantan include conducted by Effendi [6], [7], [8], and [9]. While, the other studies observing oral traditions related to religious function in community have been conducted by Kamaluddin [10], [11], and [12].…”