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Emphasizing the Role of Hinduism, Education, Culture and Yoga in Global World REPRESENTATION OF MULTICULTURAL ATTITUDE ON HOLY DAYS OF HINDUS AND MOSLEM IN BAYAN, NORTH LOMBOK, WEST NUSA TENGGARA I Wayan Ardhi Wirawan STAHN Gde Puja Mataram E-mail: ardhiwirawan@stahn_gdepudja.ac.id ABSTRACT This paper is based on research that aims to study the representation of multicultural attitude of Hindus and Moslem in Bayan, North Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. This phenomenon is related to the building of religious consciousness indicated by mutual recognition and mutual acceptance of the differences that exist between the two religious groups. The awakening of religious consciousness is actualized in common life, especially on religious holy days. Balinese- Hindus and Sasak-Moslem embody tolerance in religious life are indicated by the interaction and communication made when each of the different faiths carries out religious holy days. Hindus who carry out religious holy days, such as galungan, kuningan, and other holy days are enlivened by the Sasak-Moslem ethnic community. It is also the case when the Sasak-Moslem ethnic community carry out religious festivals, such as maulid, idul fitri, and others also enlivened by Balinese-Hindus. The excitement that occurs when there is a tradition to enliven the religious holy days is part of the representation of religious consciousness that grows in each religion. Along with enlivening the activities of religious holy days there is also a ngejot tradition, namely to give food or beverage between religious believers on religious holy days. Religious awareness is very effective to realize harmony of life because of the tolerance that has grown up among them. Attitudes of tolerance between different groups of different religions have been established since the time of history and to this day is still maintained in order to realize social harmony. Keywords: Representation, Multicultural, Religious Awareness, Holy days, Social Harmony, Hindus, Moslem, Bayan I. INTRODUCTION The plurality that occurs in the life of the differences that exist as a social the Bayan community, North Lombok, West consciousness that grows within each different Nusa Tenggara summarizes some of the identity and interpreted as an entity that differences, such as religion, ethnicity, enriches the splendor between them. language, traditions, and a number of other The life of the people of Bayan consists differences. Differences that exist get of a number of ethnic groups that together recognition and acceptance so as to realize a perform activities in order to meet the needs of harmonious social life in plurality. Differences their lives. Two relatively large ethnic groups, that exist may not be an obstacle in the Sasak ethnic group as the natives of communication and interaction in living Lombok Island and the Balinese ethnic group everyday life. Recognition and acceptance of as immigrant settlers living in Lombok. The 10 STAHN Mpu Kuturan Singaraja Aneka Lovina Villa & Spa, 20th - 21st October 2018 two ethnic groups meet in the historic period Varshney (2002:50-51) as a bond of quotidian and embody a mutualistic life in the face of or daily bond. These ties are informal unofficial life’s problems. The ethnic Balinese ethnic ties that are capable of maintaining social group, although as immigrants, were given the harmony, especially in the villages identity of bakaka by the Sasak ethnic group. The babaka identity means that the ethnic group II. LOCAL WISDOM AS A PILLAR OF of Balinese is elderly. The reason for giving SOCIAL HARMONY such identity is because the Balinese gave many Local wisdom is actualized by the examples in doing certain jobs. Based on the Bayan community is a system of knowledge research results it is known that the Balinese produced to overcome the problems faced in who live there, especially the ones engraved in life, both in individual and communal aspects. the higher plains provide many models, Two relatively large ethnic groups, the especially in the agricultural land processing Balinese-Hindu ethnic community with the system. This phenomenon causes the Sasak-Moslem ethnic community. The relationship between the Balinese with the encounter of the two ethnic groups establishes Sasak people in the Bayan region relatively a very specific pattern of social relationships closely. indicated by the realization of a social relation The close relationship between the that is disposed to diffuse the divergence of Balinese and the Sasak people is the cause of identity differences between the two ethnically their lives running harmoniously in various distinct religions. The Balinese ethnic aspects. The closeness of the relationship is community that embraced Hinduism as an implemented in the implementation of religious immigrant population brings with it a system life, especially on religious holy days. Balinese of cultural traditions from its native land ethnic groups who Hindu follower carrying out capable of adaptation with the Sasak ethnic religious holy days, such as galungan, community who embraced Islam that continues kuningan, and other holy days. At the time of the ancestral cultural tradition of the Sasak the implementation of these religious holy days people from generation to generation. the Sasak people who embraced Islam enliven Preservation of cultural traditions is associated these holy days. The opposite phenomenon also with the concept of Pierre Bourdieu as doxa. occurs when the Sasak people who carry out Doxa according to Bourdieu (1990:68) is a religious holy days, such as maulid, idel fitri, take-for-granted discourse that flows by. and others also enlivened by the Balinese who The existence of two ethnic embraced the Hindu religion. communities of different religions since the The festivities that occur in the beginning of its encounter has shown relatively implementation of religious holy days are also high tolerance attitudes. They live in mutual accompanied by the tradition of ngejot. This help to each other so tend to cause social tradition is done by giving treats of food or harmony. In the Bayan region they built a beverage to friends of other religions when the traditional social system that claimed to be the implementation of religious holy days. The brother termed the polong renten. The above phenomenon is part of awakening traditional social system of polong renten built awareness for mutual respect among those who in the Bayan region is an indicator that there carry out the religious holy days of each of the has been a growing awareness of each ethnic different faiths. This is closely related to efforts group to bring about fraternity. Although to achieve social harmony. These traditions are genealogically they do not have the same root, associated with the terms conveyed by but emotionally they are met as brothers and 11 Emphasizing the Role of Hinduism, Education, Culture and Yoga in Global World sisters. The kinship system in the form of a reality of ethnic differences and religious polong renten becomes one of local wisdom differences between them in the above that can be used as a medium to maintain conditions does not constitute a constraint in mutual bonds of brotherhood. This making social contact between them, either phenomenon implies that the meaning of individually or communally. This phenomenon solidarity implied behind the polong renten implies the realization of tolerance attitudes traditional system can build emotional states. indicated by the growing awareness of each That meaning becomes a substance in culture, ethnic group to always maintain a harmonious as Abdullah (2006:8) points out that the life. With regard to it, in the implementation of substance of culture is “meaning” which is a religion is based on ethics to respect each other, formation that is full of values that both fellow believers and with different accommodate the interests of the parties religions. Synergize with it, Habermas involved. (2007:125) positioned religion and morality The Balinese in the Bayan region are have a close relationship. This can be seen in immigrants, while the Sasak are indigenous to the fact that morality does not gain a clear status Lombok Island, but the Balinese are given the in the construction of a structurally identity of the bekaka for the reason that the differentiated world. Unlike science and art, existence of Balinese in the region as brothers morality can not be viewed only as part of a who are thought to be giving much guidance cultural tradition; unlike the legal norms or in agricultural land processing system. character traits, he can not be attached only to Differences that exist, especially those society or people per person. concerning religious differences do not become Tolerance built into the life of the Bayan an obstacle in realizing communication and community involves the important role of three interaction in living everyday life. Relations social categorizations, namely adat leaders, between the two ethnic groups have a noble community leaders and religious leaders. value that has strengthened in everyday life. Customary figures are those who are bolstered Synergizing with it, Koentjaraningrat (2004:25- in the customary practices of each ethnic 26) suggests that the cultural values that live community in order to continue the customs in society so conceptions have long been rooted inherited by their ancestors. Community leaders in the realm of their souls since the individuals are a personified figure and usually give since childhood have been impregnated. That influence to the community and tend to be is why cultural values are difficult to replace followed by the community. Religious figures with other cultural values in a short time. are those who are baptized as religious leaders and at the same time play an important role in III. REALIZING OF RELIGIOUS raising religious awareness among adherents. TOLERANCE ATTITUDES The pattern of bonds between ethnic Balinese- The collective life characterized by a Hindu and Sasak-Islam in Bayan is described number of differences possessed by the Bayan in matrix form, as follows.