Maintaining cultural identity of Tionghoa Singkawang society in West Jakarta

Abstract

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.