Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Islamic Studies, AICIS 2019, 1-4 October 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia

Research Article

Revitalizing Local Wisdoms for Dealing with the Disruption Era: A Case of Aceh

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.1-10-2019.2291701,
        author={J  Usman and Syabuddin  Syabuddin and Gunawan  Gunawan and Sulaiman  Sulaiman and Fauzan  Fauzan},
        title={Revitalizing Local Wisdoms for Dealing with the Disruption Era: A Case of Aceh},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Islamic Studies, AICIS 2019, 1-4 October 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={AICIS},
        year={2020},
        month={2},
        keywords={local wisdom aceh culture globalization},
        doi={10.4108/eai.1-10-2019.2291701}
    }
    
  • J Usman
    Syabuddin Syabuddin
    Gunawan Gunawan
    Sulaiman Sulaiman
    Fauzan Fauzan
    Year: 2020
    Revitalizing Local Wisdoms for Dealing with the Disruption Era: A Case of Aceh
    AICIS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.1-10-2019.2291701
J Usman1,*, Syabuddin Syabuddin1, Gunawan Gunawan1, Sulaiman Sulaiman2, Fauzan Fauzan3
  • 1: Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, Ar-Raniry State Islamic University, Banda Aceh
  • 2: Perguruan Tinggi Ilmu Al Quran (PTIQ) Aceh
  • 3: Graduate of Faculty of Dakwah and Communication, Ar-Raniry State Islamic University, Banda Aceh
*Contact email: jarjani@ar-raniry.ac.id

Abstract

Living in the globalized era is very challenging because it has tremendously disrupted the shared local wisdom as the people's principles of life in many countries. In an Indonesian province of Aceh, for instance, as the result of the erosion of local wisdom today, many people have dared to sporadically violate social norms and values. This descriptive-qualitative research employed document analysis and interviews to analyze the local wisdom from various sources, such as textbooks, proverbs, idioms, etc. and clarified their values with old people in Aceh. It was found that there are many local pearls of wisdom in Aceh culture, as in social structure (e.g., geuchiek, tuha peut), social practices (e.g., ba breuh lam jeumpét, meuseuraya), and proverbs that can be synergized for dealing with disruption era. Each of those wisdom has vital values of virtue, such as education, commitment, work ethics, gratitude, etc. Therefore, these Islamic religious-based local wisdom should be revitalized by incorporating them into school lesson materials in which students learn to know and act based on their vital cultural values.