THE IDENTITY OF JAVANESE PEOPLE

Abstract

Indonesia is the nation with the largest archipelago in the world which consists of 13.466 islands from Sabang till Rote. It also has more than 700 local languages with culturally diverse. Based on that, it makes this country has potential of human resources, otherwise it can be the source of big conflict if could not be maintained as well as. One of the most dominant places in this country is Java, the capital and the center of economic is also in Java. In the past, the colonizer like Dutch and Japan always start their occupation started from Java. In addition, Java also called as the culture center region in this nation in which one of the sign for this reason is the existence of the palace of Sultanate Ngayogyokarto Hadiningrat in Yogyakarta Method of this research uses qualitative research, and then data were collect ed from the place of Gus Dur graveyard at Pesantren Tebuireng Jombang in east Java and several areas around here. In addition the researcher classified data and making categorization based on ethnolinguistics perspective. According to Duranti The result of this research showed that for religious people they will start their ritual activities using Islamic speech like opening, content and closing. For opening it will consist of stating basmalah, stating wasilah or tawassul as medium to make interaction and for praying to. The second activities for content it will be consist of reading ayat-ayat al-qur’an and the third is closing, will be consist of expectation and invocation to God. On the other hand, for pure Javanese people, they also have 3 sections during their ritual or selamatan, they are, opening, content and the closing.