Religious Local Wisdom For Strengthening Social Harmony: Study in Banyumas Indonesia and New Delhi India

This research aims to explore and analyze religious local wisdom for strengthening social harmony. We will prove the thesis that local wisdom was excavated from religious values has strong power for social harmony, especially majority and minority relation. In Java, Indonesia, in the early Islam, Sunan Kudus tried to understand social context. He used religious local wisdom to respect Hindu as a majority by prohibiting his congregation to slaughter cow and its beef. He applied sad al-dariah, a concept in Islam as a risk management. This concept is still valid until now. He built mosque (masjid) by adopting Hindu architecture. In Banyumas, Jawa, Indonesia, there is the concept of cablaka. It’s talking for what it is. Bawor (name of puppet) is an icon of cablaka. The genealogy of cablaka can be traced from Islamic values. Cablaka is a communication model in Region in Jawa, especially in Banyumas. Researchers collect data with the interview, observation, and documentation. Then, we analyze data by Huberman’s model (reduction, displaying, conclusion). We choose Banyumas and Kudus as a research location for Indonesia New Delhi for India. The finding of the research is showing that any characteristics religious local wisdom that effective to build social harmony. First, it that improve to make more social interdependent. Second, It produces to make more and deep understand about live. Cablaka in Banyumas and Darma Samanvaya in New Delhi have two characteristics