Tradisi dan Kepercayaan: Eksplorasi Komunikasi Ritual dalam Merajut Kerukunan Komunitas Bugis Towani Tolotang Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia

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Hadawiah Hadawiah
Sulaeman Sulaeman
M. Ridwan
Mohamad Rizki Norau

Abstrak

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi pengalaman komunikasi ritual dalam merajut kerukunan komunitas Bugis Towani Tolotang di Amparita Sidenreng Rappang, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia. Komunitas Bugis Towani Tolotang memiliki berbagai tradisi lokal dan kepercayaan mengenai kepedulian sosial, kekeluargaan, keberagaman, kebersamaan, dan kesetaraan sebagai identitas solidaritas yang diwujudkan dalam merajut kerukunan dengan hubungan harmonis. Data diperoleh secara kualitatif melalui beberapa wawancara percakapan informal melalui proses komunikasi ritual (Tallotte, 2018) berdasarkan teori ritual (Turner 1962, 1969), dan fenomenologi (Schutz, 1972). Artikel terfokus pada pengalaman komunitas Bugis Towani Tolotang yang merupakan sekelompok komunitas dengan kepercayaan menyembah Tuhan Dewata Seuwae. Bugis Towani Tolotang mengkonstruksi komunikasi ritual sebagai tradisi lokal secara simbol tersendiri dan dianggap mempunyai makna, di antaranya makna persembahan, permohonan, dan harapan. Makna tersebut dihasilkan dari proses komunikasi interpretasi subjektif ritual gotong-royong, perkawinan, sipulung, mappenre inanre, dan tudang sipulung. Artikel ini berkontribusi untuk mewujudkan hubungan harmonis komunitas melalui pembahasan pencarian makna ritual Bugis Towani Tolotang dengan harapan dapat hidup bersama secara damai dalam ikatan kekerabatan. Penguatan solidaritas sangat penting karena membentuk ikatan kekeluargaan dan kebersamaan. Kontribusi ini menawarkan peluang akomodasi tradisional dan cara membentuk ikatan kekerabatan.

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Hadawiah Hadawiah, Universitas Muslim Indonesia, Makassar

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Sulaeman Sulaeman, INSTITUT AGAMA ISLAM NEGERI AMBON

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