MENJADI MUSLIM TETAP DANI Potret Kehidupan Orang Dani Islam di Kampung Walesi Papua

Abstract

Disputes on the phenomenon of locally insight of religiousness have upraised slightly recent days. On the other hand, it has dictated society to state frontally the truthfulness of their belief. This phenomenon has affected groups of society to accuse, to trump up and to fight cross over each other on behalf of a religion and witnessed publicly over people through wide ranges of media. This paper intends to discover the phenomenon of locally insight on religiousness through visualizing the daily life of Dani Moslem in Assoyeleget, a country side`s of Walesi village-in Wamena, in which the people still living their life in traditional ways, even though they have confessed Islam as their religion. This research is conducted ethnographically with qualitative approach in the process of data collecting and analyzing. Data are collected by using participant-observation, in-depth interview, focus group discussion (FGD) and documentation. Moreover, regarding on research purpose, researcher have stayed in the research field and followed almost every community activities, particularly the activities which are related to the research purpose. This research suggested that preaching of Islamic teaching from the urban city to the hinterland in Wamena as well as the Dani`s people believe today was preached by the volunteers group arranged by Indonesian government named Pelopor Pembebasan Irian Barat (West Irian Liberation Pioneer) that consist of Javanese people. Majority of them were Moslem and they have main duty to secure the process of Act of Free Choice in West Irian and. Since then, in their daily life, they show good attitude and behaves which attracted the young generation of Dani whom still dressed on traditional way, and finally they were getting closer and converted their belief into Islam. During the process for accepting Islamic teaching as a new religion for Dani`s people, they found that most of Islamic teaching are mutual accord with local tradition, however, in some cases, problem are arise when local tradition view contradicted to Islamic teaching, such us marriage, cutting off body`s parts when a member of family die, cremation and the most extremely tradition is living together with pig. Particularly in the case living together with pig that pig is and extraordinary mammal for them and controlled almost life aspects of Dani people because pig is a symbol of power for a man, pig can take a role as a unifier factor, kinship bridging and also for medical therapy. Therefore, Dani people were addressed into resistance, adoption, adaptation, acculturation and assimilation that slowly underway as the result of two encountered values, local tradition and Islamic teaching. The Dani Moslem in Assoyeleget village was stand in between options which they must be taken. The option that not only to strengthen their identity as Dani`s tribe but also to strengthen their belief as Moslem. Only by doing both reasons, they would not lose their pigs as one of the main symbols of Dani man and also not lose their alliances with the other larger group, that�s groups of Moslem society which usually give a hand due to their livelihood