The Educational Values of Oral Tradition as an Attempt to Preserve Customary Land in Ketapang District West Kalimantan

Abstract

The high risk of forest fires in Ketapang Regency West Kalimantan is caused by many factors. One of them is the opening of a new farm by using fires of the forest. In line with this, educating people to care and to preserve the forest is a part of inseparable efforts from forest fire preservation. The purpose of this study was to dig the values from oral tradition and promote it in order to expand and preserve customary forest in Ketapang West Kalimantan. This study used qualitative approach as the research method. Meanwhile, the data validity was examined by using triangulation, while the data analysis was done interactively. The results of the study revealed that the oral tradition expanding in Dayak tribes has been used as studies resource and media for people. This tradition has been used as a learning media for people, such as arts performance education. As a learnt resource, the values of oral tradition contain educational values that could be expanding as a tool of enforcement, mobilization and socialization of the importance of environmental awareness for forest prevention from damage. At last, this study concludes that oral tradition values will establish a good characteristics by having a high social concern of the environment. By having this, it is hoped that the forest fire will reduce.