Kaomu : Surviving Strategy Group Nobility the Community Structure Buton

Abstract

This study aimed to understand the actions of our group in maintaining their traditional legitimacy as the dominant group in the structure of society Buton. Following the dissolution of the Sultanate of Buton 1960, the group was faced with the erosion of legitimacyI traditional status as a result of mobility between the layers in the structure of society. Realizing the potential for changes in social order, they perform strategic steps in order to maintain the legitimacy to their late-kaomu, through the preservation of reproductive indigenous discourse, educational institutions, political parties, and the revitalization of the Sultanate of Buton become customary institutions. Through various strategies that constructed this arena, the group kaomu trying reestablish their traditional legitimacy as the dominant group in the structure of society.