HENI ISMIATI

Conflicts in Tanjung Balai Asahan involving cultural violence. A conflict begins with the construction and placement of the Amithaba Buddha statues at the monastery Tri Ratna who are considered Muslims Tanjung Balai disturbing the comfort of their worship. Then there was the burning of the monastery took place on July 29, 2016, involving cultural sentiment. Related cultural community sentiment is due to the assumption that the existence of differences that could not be put together between the Malay Tanjung Balai versus ethnic Chinese. According to (Galtung, 1990), this cultural violence is violence that includes and is one of the roots of violence and structural violence directly. Cultural violence is an aspect of culture including religion and ideology, language, arts, science, and symbol-symbol of culture as myth, the concept eventually led to certain cultures, which is then the value in the culture that made the justification by the community against acts of violence or conflict...

Keamanan geopolitik dan sentimen keagamaan menjadi isu politik yang mencuat di Indonesia pasca 2014. Semenjak Joko Widodo menjadi presiden, isu kedekatannya dengan China seringkali dikemas sebagai citra yang negatif terhadap pemerintahannya. Di sisi lain, menguatnya pengaruh China di Asia Tenggara turut mempengaruhi perubahan peta ekonomi politik di Indonesia. Investasi dan dana pinjaman dari China meningkat tajam yang diiringi kompensasi proyek infrastruktur yang diberikan kepada China. Akan tetapi, memori kolektif masyarakat Indonesia terkait identiknya China dan komunisme menyulut kekhawatiran bangkitnya Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI) di Indonesia. Secara kebetulan, persaingan Gubernur Jakarta 2017 yang diikuti oleh Basuki Tjahaya Purnama, petahana kuat berlatar etnik China yang diusung oleh partai pemerintah (PDIP), menjadi momentum yang membangkitkan komponen Islamis yang sudah menaruh curiga terhadap kebangkitan PKI. Artikel ini menelaah bagaimana faktor menguatnya pengaruh Ch...

Rural area is described as a place of comfortable life, the safety place and society regularly to collaborate. Social change happens quickly in the rural resulting in rural community of experiencing the cultural shocks. The money is supposed to be creating economic change and creating prosperity turns out to give effect to the social reality in the community. According to Simmel (Simmel 1990; Hardiman 2010; Prasetyo 2013), money is not only as an economic transaction but also is the instrument and symbols to present issues related to value in the society. Money can influence attitudes, behavior the community in socio-cultural life. Those changes in lifestyle rural community is a result of the process imitation what he sees in the community of the city. This research was conducted in Banuayu one of rural area in Ogan Komering Ulu Timur Regency Sumatera Selatan. This research use qualitative research, the data collection use observation and interview.

Keywords— rural, money and value, social reality.

Globalisasi membawa dampak yang sangat besar dalam segala bidang kehidupan, tidak hanya dalam bidang ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi namun bidang sosial kemasyarakatan menjadi bagian pola perubahan. Timbulnya persaingan yang kompetitif, maraknya permasalahan sosial akibat menurunnya kemampuan daya beli masyarakat, negera-negara di dunia yang berusaha melakukan ekspansi secara besar-besaran, strategi bertahan hidup yang mengesampingkan batasan kemanusiaan menjadi pemicu pelanggaran hak asasi manusia di dunia.