<p><em>Nowdays, coversion of religion is popular issue to discuss especially for Hindus in Bali as well as outside Bali. This paper conveys some alternatives of how to stay in our religion namely Hindu. There fore the purpose of this study, to analyze: (1) Reasons for the importance of the formation of religious attitudes of Hindu  youth in Taro Village; (2) Strategies for the formation of religious attitudes of Hindu youth in Taro Village; and (3) Implications for the formation of Hindu teenage religious attitudes towards religious knowledge, religious beliefs, and religious behavior. Theories used as scalpel are: phenomenological theory, constructivist theory, and eclectic theory of behavior. This research is classified as a qualitative research, with a multiperspective approach namely theological, phenomenological, psychological and ethnopedagogical. Data collection techniques with unstructured interviews, non-participation, observation, and study of documents. Data were analyzed using qualitative descriptive techniques, the Miles and Hubeman cycle analysis models. Conclusions: (1) Reasons for the importance of forming religious attitudes of Hindu youth in Taro Village: increasing religious knowledge, suppressing religious fanaticism, forming religious tolerance, and making children morally noble; (2) Strategies for the formation of religious attitudes of Hindu youth in Taro Village, by: providing examples and modelling through a persuasive approach, by creating a religious atmosphere, by internalizing religious values, by habituation, and cooperation with partners. (3) Implications for the formation of religious attitudes: implications for increasing understanding of religion, strengthening of faith / belief (sraddha and bhakti) in religion, and religious behavior becoming more mature, religion becoming an attitude of life.</em><em></em></p>

The interpreting of the making ogoh-ogoh based on the perspective of the cultural studies in related to the festival day of the tawur kesanga towards Hindu society in Bali. It recently is an interesting phenomenon to be studied in the academics. Due to the ogoh-ogoh is made as a series for the ceremony of the tawur kesanga lately. It has been a high cost, although, in the literary texts, it does not find the existence of ogoh-ogoh become the completeness of the tawur ceremony itself. Regarding its phenomenon, the author was interested in studying in term of this. The study was intended to interpret the ideology or a truth behind the making of ogoh-ogoh shown of the religious ceremonies. It was conducted applying a qualitative approach included classifying, categorize, understand, and interpret any data or the facts by paraphrase or description, therefore, the conclusion was generally obtained. The results of the analysis were conducted. It can be understood that the making of ogoh-ogoh recently in the Hindu society in Bali, not merely means to cast out of the evil spirits that have been perceived as buta kala by the Hindu society in Bali. However, it was interpreted as a game of the ideology i.e. capitalist ideology. In term of this was evident that the making of ogoh-ogoh lately, no longer using the local materials that can be freely gotten from the surrounding environment, but must be made by lux materials that must be purchased expensive. Thus, it can be concluded that behind the making of ogoh-ogoh related with the ceremony of the tawur kesanga towards Hindu society in Bali lately was initiated by the game of the ideology i.e. capitalist ideology.

Modernisasi mengubah perilaku manusia serba cepat bahkan ada kecenderungan pragmatis. Ilmu pengetahuan modern menjanjikan kemudahan-kemudahan kepada manusia sehingga banyak masyarakat yang menginginkan serba cepat dan praktis. Hal ini juga berpengaruh terhadap pola pikir, sikap dan perilaku masyarakat yang pada akhirnya berdampak pada adanya pergeseran peradaban manusia. Pergeseran ini juga terjadi pada sektor pertanian, yang pada awalnya pertanian di Bali dikerjakan secara tradisional dan penuh kekerabatan (dharma pemaculan) sekarang sudah berpindah cara, yakni dengan revolusi hijau yang menawarkan hasil panen lebih banyak dan lebih cepat. Tulisan ini akan membahas satu hal yaitu implikasi bergesernya substansi Dharma Pemaculan terhadap sistem pendidikan keagamaan Hindu di Bali, dengan mempergunakan teori Dharma Pemaculan dan Teori Pendidikan Kritis. Hasil penelitian ini diharapkan dapat memberikan sumbangan pemikiran terhadap fenomena yang terjadi pada masyarakat agraris khususnya yang berimplikasi terhadap pendidikan keagamaan Hindu yang berbasis pelestarian budaya lokal.

<p>This study is aimed at examining the factors of the existence of Pasraman Gurukula Bangli as a Hindu educational institution. This study used descriptive qualitative method. Data was obtained through observation, in-depth interviews and documentation. In analyzing the data, the theory of existentialism was used. The results shows that there are four factors that make Pasraman Gurukula Bangli still exists as a Hindu educational institution. Those factors are philosophical factors which are the basis of pasraman activities; sociological factors which include harmonious relations between pasraman elements and the surrounding environment, legality factors that are intended to carry out formal education and motivational factors that surround all pasraman’s stakeholders.</p>

This article intends to examine the preservation of the Cultural Identity of the Singkawang Chinese Community in West Jakarta with the aim of earning a living, improving a better life, because it is difficult to find work in Singkawang. They migrate to West Jakarta living in rented houses close to convection businesses, selling food, beverages, and clothes. They come to West Jakarta by renting a house. They also help relatives and friends who don't have a house contract to live with. In West Jakarta it is easier for them to earn money, get various jobs, but until now they have not been able to buy a house, so they do not own a house. Some of them stay at their employer's house or at their boss's house, boarding house or rented house, because they don't have enough money to buy a house, they need to eat and send their children to school. Even though they live in West Jakarta with a metropolitan life, they still live as they are and still maintain their ancestral traditions as the value of local wisdom that is noble. They are not influenced by the consumptive lifestyle, remain humble with the existing life.