REVITALISASI DAN REORIENTASI PERADABAN JAWA (Langkah Awal Terciptanya Masyarakat Madani)

Abstract

This paper is the result of the research in the area of the local wisdom of the Javnese society in the form of the Javanese (advice) speech. The contect of the research problem is the understanding of the Javanese (advice) speech which is understood as one of the Javanese local wisdoms in the forms of the moral messages in the Javanese society. The research method used in this research is the combination between linguistic and anthropological methods (ethnolinguistics), specifically using the etnosign methodology. The results of this research are in the forms of the classification and the linguistic expression categorization which can be stated as follows: (1) the conception of the Javanese about personal management, (2) the conception of the Javanese about World and Wordly, (3) the conception of the Javanese about family and society, (4) the conception of the Javanese about nations, (5) the concept about spiritual superiority, and (6) the conception of Javanese about the belief/divinity. From the discussion of the Javanese (advice) speech, it needs to conduct the reinterpretation and the revitalization accurately about the ways of the Javanese thought in the past and in the current society to intergrate the knowledge and cosmology which can be referred to understand the cultural problems.