Human-Environmental Relations as Manifested in Central Java Folklore of Indonesia
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https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1507.29Keywords:
ecocriticism, ecological wisdom, folklore, Central JavaAbstract
Environmental damage is a severe problem in Indonesia. Efforts to educate the community, especially students, on ecological damage need to be carried out through education. Education must ensure students have the knowledge and awareness to preserve the environment. One uses folklore as a teaching material loaded with ecological wisdom in learning. This research aimed to find and explain the ecological wisdom contained in folklore. The research design used was qualitative research employing a literary ecology approach to analyze aspects of ecological knowledge in folklore. The ecocriticism approach described ecosystem elements, environmental wisdom, and forms of ecological damage in folklore. The research results showed that based on 40 works folklore from Central Java narrated ecological wisdom through the relationship between humans and nature from two perspectives: nature as a subject and nature as an object. The protagonists who positioned nature as the mother, ethics of life, and nature’s holistic nature represented the relationship between nature and humans as subjects. Meanwhile, the relationship between humans and nature as antagonists in acts of exploitation and violence against the environment represented objects. The presence of these two relationships allowed readers to understand the concept of ecological wisdom in folklore. Thus, Central Java folklore could be used as learning material in elementary schools to internalize values of environmental wisdom in students.
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