Volume: 19 Issue-01 (January-June) 2024

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INDIGENOUS SELF-RELIANCE IN THE BOTI PEOPLE'S PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE (STUDY CASE IN BOTI VILLAGE, SOUTH CENTRAL TIMOR REGENCY, EAST NUSA TENGGARA PROVINCE, INDONESIA)

ABSTRACT

This study aims to describe: How the independence of customary law communities affects the Boti people's outlook on life. This study will examine and describe cases of the Boti people's worldview which has become a value of independence for the traditional law community in Boti. This will be seen as local wisdom of customary law communities that still survives and exists today. This study uses a qualitative approach with a case study type of study. The study location was carried out in Boti Village, which is one of the villages in South Central Timor Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. The focus of this study is village independence in the Boti people's view of life. Informants in this study were determined using purposive techniques (using certain considerations). The data sources in this study came from primary and secondary data. Data collection techniques used interview, observation and documentation techniques. Data analysis techniques used qualitative data analysis techniques from Creswell. Results validation techniques the study uses data triangulation and source triangulation techniques. The results of the study found that the Boti community can be divided into two, namely the Boti Dalam community, which still adheres to the ancestral beliefs of " Halaika " and lives everything based on the guidance of traditional values. Next are the Boti Luar people who have embraced the teachings of beliefs generally recognized by the Indonesian state and the majority are Christians Protestant. However, in some life values that do not directly intersect with their religious worship, the Outer Boti people still adhere to Boti traditional values and carry them out because they live as " Boti People ". Furthermore, the Boti Dalam people's view of life/perception of life includes several aspects including : the Boti Dalam people's view of the nature of life, the Boti Dalam people's view of the nature of work, the Boti Dalam people's view of the nature of time, the Boti Dalam people's view of nature, the nature of relationships. between humans and each other.

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