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“DAWAI-DAWAI KEHIDUPAN TRADISIONAL”: KISAH PERJUANGAN SINDEN SITER BERTAHAN HIDUP DARI MASA KE MASA (“THE STRINGS OF TRADITIONAL LIFE”: SINDEN SITER SURVIVAL STORY FROM TIME TO TIME) RESEARCH AND DESIGN PRODUCTION FOR FILM REPORTS By Ghinaa Atikawati ID No. 009201300024 A Research and Creative Project Report presented to The School of Humanities President University In partial fulfillment of the requirements of Bachelor Degree on Communication Studies, Concentration in Film and Television 2017 THESIS ADVISER RECOMMENDATION LETTER This thesis and short film entitled “SINDEN SITER DAWAI-DAWAI KEHIDUPAN TRADISIONAL”: KISAH PERJUANGAN SINDEN SITER BERTAHAN HIDUP DARI MASA KE MASA RESEARCH AND DESIGN PRODUCTION FOR FILM REPORTS”. Prepared and submitted by Ghinaa Atikawati in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the Faculty of Humanities, Communication Studies has been reviewed and found to have satisfied the requirements for a thesis fit to be examined. I therefore recommend this thesis for Oral Defense. Cikarang, Indonesia, January 27th 2017 Recommended by Syamsuddin Aziz, M.Phil., Ph. D Naswan Iskandar, M. Sn Research Advisor Creative Advisor i PANEL OF EXAMINERS APPROVAL SHEET The Period of Examiner declare that the thesis and a short film entitled “SINDEN SITER DAWAI-DAWAI KEHIDUPAN TRADISIONAL”: KISAH PERJUANGAN SINDEN SITER BERTAHAN HIDUP DARI MASA KE MASA RESEARCH AND DESIGN PRODUCTION FOR FILM REPORTS”. That was submitted by Ghinaa Atikawati in Film and Television from the Faculty of Humanities was assessed and approved to have passed the oral Examination on 8th March 2017. _________________________________ Dindin Dimyati, S.Sos., MM Chair of Panel of Examination/Examiner I _________________________________ Arda Muhlisiun, M.Sn Examiner II _______________________________ _______________________________ Syamsuddin Aziz, M.Phil., Ph. D Naswan Iskandar, M. Sn Thesis Advisor Creative Advisor ii DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY I declare that this thesis, entitled “SINDEN SITER DAWAI-DAWAI KEHIDUPAN TRADISIONAL”: KISAH PERJUANGAN SINDEN SITER BERTAHAN HIDUP DARI MASA KE MASA RESEARCH AND DESIGN PRODUCTION FOR FILM REPORTS”, is to the best of my knowledge and belief, an original piece of my work that has not been submitted, either in whole or in part, to another university to obtain a degree Cikarang, Indonesia, January 27th 2017 Ghinaa Atikawati iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS “And to Allah belong the unseen [aspects] of the heavens and the earth and to Him will be returned the matter, all of it, so worship Him and rely upon Him. And your Lord is not unaware of that which you do” – Hud: 123 It is a grace and blessing from Allah SWT that finally, I can finish my college, thesis and a documentary film project through a long journey, the ups and downs of life, overwhelming support and unceasing prayers from the loved ones. I would like to express my highest gratitude to Allah SWT for all the protection and conveniences which given to me during passed my study in President University, just like His promise, Allah will never break His covenant. Besides, by this special pages, I would like to thank to everyone who spend their times, energies, and even everything in helping me to finish this phase: 1. I would like to thank profusely to my parents, Mr. Djunaidi and Mrs. Lasmi Budiati, also to my little sister Safira Cahya Rachmaningtyas, who never stop giving supports, love, attention, prayer and permission in doing any activities from the first year until the last year at President University. 2. Bunch of thanks to Mr. Syamsuddin Aziz as my thesis advisor and Mr. Naswan Iskandar as my creative advisor for all their time spent, guidance, support, unexpected ideas, motivations and advices during the completion of my thesis. 3. I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Teuku Rezasyah, Ph. D as Dean of Faculty of Humanities in President University. 4. My sincere gratitude to Mr. Dindin Dimyati, S. Sos., MM as Head of Communication Studies Program also as my internship and academic mentor. 5. I would like to say thank you to Mrs. Meri Kristina Simanjuntak for assisting in preparing documents related to my final project also during my college life. 6. I also would like to say thank you to Ms. Irani Yosef for being one of the greatest sharing friends, all motivations, supports, advices to boost my confidence during finish my study. iv 7. I place on record, my sense of gratitude to these great lecturers of Film and Television, Mr. Hari Suryanto, Mr. Nur Hidayat, Mr. Ardha Muhlisiun for all the shared knowledge, guidance, kindness, and advices during finish my film television subjects. 8. I am also grateful to Mbah Narto Sahono and family for accepting my friends and I with the warmest welcome from each of you and helping us to collect all data for research purposes although it might disturb your time and place. 9. I also would like say thank you for Amanda Ariesta, Ghanding Ghali, Mutiara Pertiwi and Koko Weweh for helping me to make this film not just a dream. 10. I wish to express my sincere thanks to Pakde Kuncoro, Bude Unik, Mbak Erina and Mas Firly, for helping me with discussion, remarkable place to live during in Yogyakarta, life support, and prayer to finish my thesis writing and documentary film project. 11. I am also grateful to have Pakde Fajar, Bude Erni and especially Mas Faniawan Nur Cahyo for endless supports by accompanied me during in Yogyakarta, brainstormed ideas, and sincere prayer for me starting from the beginning of my thesis until finish. 12. I take this opportunity to thank Om Muntoro and Bulik Sandra for giving such a warm motivation to let all stress away and encourage me to finish thesis faster also helping me during research. 13. My sincere thank goes to Charista Aprilia and Mutiara Pertiwi for being sisters in my university life, reminding to do everything with the maximum efforts, doing something good as best as we can because everything have his own karmas. 14. My special thanks also given to Windasari Gayuh Mardatilah, Aulia Rahma Fadilah, Flora Hutrie, Faradilla E. Synta for accepting, letting and inviting me involve in your ups and downs and boosting myself by sincere and honest critics also advices from each of you. v 15. Special thanks addressed to Film and Television batch 2013, Aditya Kurniawan, Adrin Vitadini, Amanda Ariesta, Feng Xiao Han, Ghanding Ghali Kanory, Mutiara Pertiwi, Silmi Nabilah, Yohanes Indrawan for all joys and tears throughout these semesters, finally the time has come to define a meaning of our tagline “think wild, work professional”, see you on top. 16. I place on record, my sense of gratitude to my group learning consist of Pheseline Felim, Juvenia Huang, Hana Merissa, Rizka Ramadhenia Sita, Jella Christania, Monica Olivia, Charista Aprilia and Mutiara Pertiwi, without you fellas, I might not be able to pass those tasks in a satisfactory scores. 17. I specially deliver my gratitude to Merpati Putih President University for being a place to fully recharge my energies also escape from tiring yet boring daily routines, assignments, never ending projects. 18. I would like to say thank to PUMA Communication 2015 for being the nicest place to shape my leadership skills, change my way of thinking about something, seek positivity in every chance, and drive up myself in a new phase that is Ghinaa in a new better self than before. 19. The last but not least, my sincere gratitude given to M. Romadianto Abdullah Asa, for endless support, being a nice place to share those good and bad experiences, unpredictable ideas, also the place for sharing advices, critics to have excellent results. vi ABSTRACT The project is designed to show the life of a sinden siter in Yogyakarta who apparently only known as the traditional street music player meanwhile sinden siter in Indonesia is closely related to the Javanese gamelan traditional music. As the time goes by, this traditional music has gradually dissapeared affected by many factors which are internals or externals. The subject of this research was a sinden siter in Yogyakarta who has been survived in modern era aligned with another freshly new modern music. By applying descriptive qualitative approach, this research was employing observation and indepth interviews in order to dig accurate information about the life of sinden siter in struggling to be stand out among those fresh and new modern musicians also the factors which influenced the shift of traditional musical art in the current era. These results suggest that the traditional music instrument siter actually have both functions to the culture as medium for conveying messages and as the leader of the groove tracks from an orchestration. On the other side, being a sinden siter actually gives privilege to the player itself as source of income. A part from this, the development of another musical arts slowly replace the position of traditional music with proofs of decreasing the number of sinden siter as well as the interests of the community due to the social process. Keywords: sinden siter, gamelan, Yogyakarta, traditional music, Javanese, culture. vii TABLE OF CONTENTS THESIS ADVISER RECOMMENDATION LETTER .......................................... i PANEL OF EXAMINERS APPROVAL SHEET .................................................. ii DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY .................................................................. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ..................................................................................... iv ABSTRACT .........................................................................................................