Pengetahuan Lokal (Indigenous Knowledge) “Pasompe” Bugis-Makassar dalam Menjelajah Nusantara
Abstract: Human in act is
always based on experience gained by interaction process among five senses
owned by him with some objects. Then, the formed experience affects someone’s
attitude and action from generation to generation in the community called local
knowledge by the humanists or sometimes also called local wisdom. Historically,
Indonesians well-known as talented sailors, they sailed on the wide oceans
bravely until sailing trough the continent. Therefore, it is metioned in a song
existing in our mind up to now as “nenek moyangku seorang pelaut” (my
great-grand parent is a sailor). The courage and resilience of the Indonesians
as a sailor was proved by the “merchants” Bugis-Makassar as “merchant seaman”
(passompe) crossing the islands of archipelago until Madagascar and Africa at
the time. The courage and resilience of the “Pasompe” Bugis-Makassar in sailing
the ocean were absolutely based on local knowledge (indigenous knowledge) which
was applied by generation to generation. Before making a definitive action, on
themselves always passed the process
“intellectual exercise” around the idea. So there was a process of interaction
“stimulus responses” to anticipate and take real action. This interactional
dynamics are more complex, when there are a number of contextual factors also
affecting self of “Pasompe” such as norms and value systems, ecological
setting, and historical settings that affect the experience and way of taking decision
to act. Understanding of context of interaction among actors results communicative
action (komunikativen handeln), then establishes the similarity of view
(lifeworld) about life and work choices (rational choice) as “Pasompe”. That
condition makes “Passompe” to surfive up to now.
Keywords: local knowledge
(local wisdom), merchant mariner (passompe), intellectual exercise, stimulus
response, communicative action, rational action
Penulis: Sakaria J. Anwar
Kode Jurnal: jpsosiologidd120103
