This socialization aims to increase the knowledge of the people around the Special Economic Zone (KEK) by using a persuasive approach for the Kokoda community in the KEK of Sorong Regency, the infrastructure of this activity can be seen from two things, namely the impact of the socio-economic community and the level of community awareness around the KEK of Sorong Regency. Therefore, it is important for the process of building public awareness to face open competition in special economic zones in the future. This socialization is used with a persuasive approach to the leaders of Kokoda in the area around the KEK. One reason for this approach is that it is much more effective than a collective movement. Because the social basis of society is still very strong with social patrons, it is important that we use a persuasive approach.  

Metode yang digunakan dalam pengabdian masyarakat ini adalah ceramah bervariasi dan dialog. Sasaran dari kegiatan ini adalah masyarakat Kokoda yang bermukim di Jalan Viktori Km 9 Sorong, Papua Barat. Hasil dari kegiatan ini adalah pencerahan tentang makna “torang basodara” antar suku di Papua Barat, harus ada kegiatan pendampingan yang harus dilakukan berulang kali melalui penataan kesadaran dan pola pikir generasi muda. di suku Kokoda. Hal menarik yang penulis temukan dalam kegiatan ini adalah tradisi “gelar tikar” sebagai cerita tradisional, menjadi wadah yang baik untuk membahas segala permasalahan yang muncul dalam kehidupan sehari-hari.

This article aims at describing the philosophy of “toma loa se banari” as a strategy to garner political support for Tidore Local Leader Election and to describe the mobilization of clan relations in the power struggle in Tidore. This research uses a qualitative method with an ethnographic research type. Pierre Bourdieu’s theory is used to analyze political phenomena in the power struggle in Tidore. The research findings show that “toma loa se banari “philosophy is one of the important elements in the victory of elite in local leader election. Moreover, clan mobilization in communal society in Tidore is very influential for the victory of the leader since the majority of voters are cultural people who are submissive and obedient to Tidore’s local wisdom values. The hope for democracy in the future is that the values of local wisdom will continue to exist in creating the quality of democracy at the local level.

This qualitative study uses Oberschall's Theory of Resource Mobilization (RMT) and Allport's theory of social prejudice, to describe the situation of the Kokoda people in Sorong. The data come from oral sources, interviews, observation and documents. The findings show that the mobilization of the Kokoda people in land of Tarof in Sorong, Southwest Papua was not merely a matter of becoming workers but was rather a political interest ahead of the 1969 PEPERA, Act of Free Choice, as a form of integration of Papua into the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. However, this study also shows that the work carried out by most of the Kokoda people in Sorong, as rock diggers and sellers of mangi-mangi (mangrove) wood and peat, has marginalized them. This ‘entity economy’ has led to racism against the already marginalized Kokoda clan because the community views that they destroy nature by cutting down mangrove forests and digging rocks from now-dead coral reef.

This article aims at describing two important things in the agricultural tradition in Tidore, namely about olebolo as an oral literary expression of the Tidore farmer entity and farmer rites in agricultural practice in Tidore. This study used a folklore perspective with a phenomenological research type. The author used the Indonesian oral literature expert Endaswuara as a theoretical basis, besides that the author used the economic theory of farmer J. Scott to read, and direct the research in depth. Our findings show that olebolo is an oral literature of farmers singing when they are in the fields and gardens, olebolo is also an encouragement and has mystical and moral content as a true farmer and is able to bring strong solidarity between humans. In addition, the agricultural process in Tidore, especially in Gurabunga, still carries out rituals in the farming process, such as determining the good day during the process of land clearing, planting and harvesting, all of which contain a mystical dimension. Although this ritual is filled with a mystical mechanism, the farmers in Gurabunga also prioritize science, especially the engineering problem of farmers through fertilizers, agricultural bricks can improve the quality and quantity of the harvest. This integration of practice in the world of agriculture shows that the farming community in Gurabunga, cassava with local wisdom but they are so open to the presence of knowledge. Keywords: Oral literature, Farmer’s rite, Tradition-science collaboration