THE MEANING OF MODERNIZATION AND EDUCATION IN TAMBORA VILLAGE TRADITION COMMUNITY, IN TAMBORA MOUNTAIN SLOPE, DOMPU REGENCY, WEST NUSA TENGGARA
Nur Hadi

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences,
Universitas Negeri Malang

Abstract

Since the Tambora Mountain erupted in 1815, some of the surrounding kingdoms are buried alongside the existing cultural heritage. For a long time, the area around Tambora became desolate from the dynamics of civilization. The landscape formed around it most are savannas and steppes. Community at the slope of the mountain re-formed and developed slowly. The twist of modernization and globalization coincides with the development of the community, even by accelerating the fundamental social order.
The objective of this research is about Virtues, Characters, and Civic Community. The approach used in this study is qualitative-ethnographic.
The results showed: (1) Tambora Village Community in Dompu, NTB is an tradition community that based on dryland farming life. The natural environment that far from center of Dompu and Bima City, has left this village isolated for a very long time since the eruption of Mount Tambora. Since 2014, related to the remembrance of the 200-year since the eruption of Mount Tambora, conducted in 2015, the asphalt road to the village was built. This has very important influence, both positive and negative for the development of community character education; (2) Actually modern education like the Primary School has long existed. The existence of these schools has had an effect on the changing cultural traditions of the community. But there are elements of modernity, that is the opening of road access and the sudden use of modern means of transportation that is changing the cultural tradition frontally, especially the character of the community toward negative and very worrying. It takes care of many parties, especially the education managers to control the changes of hedonist and materialist lifestyles, especially for the younger generation to return to the identity as a human being who cares about the harmony of the natural and cultural environment.

Keywords: modernization, education, tradition, mountain community

Topic: Virtues, Characters and Civic Community