The meaning of<i>dukun</i>and allure of Sufi healers: How Persian cosmopolitans transformed Malay–Indonesian history

Nourse, Jennifer W.

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“…The second sector is health services carried out by people who have knowledge and expertise in traditional medicine. In Java, for example, people who have this knowledge are commonly referred to as dukun [3]- [5]. The latter is a popular sector in which health services are carried out by individuals and families also see [6].…”

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Knowledge of Medicinal Plants as Popular Medicine in Bendan Duwur Community, Semarang City

Husain¹,

Rini²,

Wahidah³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education &Amp; Social Sciences (ICESS 2021)

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Popular medicine is one of the important sectors in the treatment system in a society. Before deciding to go to the available health services, the community will usually try to cure their illnesses with materials available at home. One ingredient that is widely used in popular medicine is medicinal plants. This medicinal plant is believed to have properties in curing diseases and maintaining health and fitness. This research was conducted in Bendan Duwur Urban Village in Semarang City, using qualitative methods. Observation and interview techniques were applied in this research to obtain detailed data about the knowledge of medicinal plants in popular medicine. The results of this study indicate that there are several medicinal plants that are processed into an herb commonly used in curing diseases. Sources of knowledge of medicinal plants in the community also vary, knowledge transmitted from older generation, media, and others. With the setting of a research landscape in an urban area where there are densely populated settlements, people use flower pots to grow medicinal plants and utilize the narrow and vacant land left in their environment. This research is important because although various modern health services are available, people still use their popular knowledge in maintaining their health.

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Knowledge of Medicinal Plants as Popular Medicine in Bendan Duwur Community, Semarang City

Husain¹,

Rini²,

Wahidah³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education &Amp; Social Sciences (ICESS 2021)

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“…Ghost hunters, paranormal service providers, and magic agents are some examples. Some discussions related to God existences, religions, spirituality, magic, paranormal, and mysticism have enriched academic and multidiscipline sources, for example, in Sociology (Yamane, Yoneda, & Tsutsui 2019), Psychology (Utinans et al, 2015;Pennycook et al, 2012), gender studies (Ward & King, 2020), education (Wilson, 2018), politics (Haryanto, 2015a), multinational language history (Nourse, 2013), and many more. However, some researchers have said it is still insufficient to fulfill the needs today ( Gunardi, 2015).…”

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Sinful Income? Being Muslims and Magic Agents in Madura Island - Indonesia

Haryanto

2021

Humaniora

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This research was based on a study conducted in four regencies of Madura Island, the mostly Muslim Island in the East Java Province of Indonesia. This research was descriptive qualitative and employed an ethnographic case study, which consisted of interviews, participant observations, and documentation as data collecting method, and analyzed by discourse analysis and textual analysis method. Magic agents, the informants in the present research and commonly referred to in Madura as Dhukon were Muslim. In addition, the existence of magic agents on the Island with its dominantly Muslim population was relatively clandestine since practicing/utilizing magic is among the biggest sins in Islamic teachings. Most of these magic agents had no other jobs, and made magic as their primary business commodity to meet their needs and their families. Therefore, their income for their lives relied on their community service activities as supernatural agents. They were likely to perform as Muslim (always wearing Arabic outfits) in daily life and employed some attributes taken from the Qur’an/Hadiths as their ‘tools’; thus, their income was blessed, rather than sinful, income. On average, their income from being Muslim magic agents was mostly higher than that of RMW (Regional Minimum Wage). The researcher argues that being a Muslim magic agent in Madura is a profitable professional job, among other jobs with geographical limitations.

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“…AM is not the only option available to address such issues; Jepara is also home to a thriving market of dukun . Sorcerer–healers who address clients’ medical and personal problems via both mundane and supernatural means, dukun are increasingly derided as backward, superstitious, and blasphemous in contemporary Indonesia (Nourse , 419–21), and it was they for whom the cosmopolitan alternative healing of the Komunitas presented the fiercest competition. Despite considerable overlap in their practices, Komunitas members advocated AM as a more moral, scientific, and respectable response to the tribulations of the times than dukun practices because it achieved its results without any question of involvement from the supernatural realm .…”

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“Accept and Utilize”: Alternative Medicine, Minimality, and Ethics in an Indonesian Healing Collective

Long

2018

Med Anthropol Q

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Cosmopolitan forms of alternative medicine have become very popular in contemporary Indonesia. Many healers have trained in an eclectic range of techniques, predicated on ontological claims so diverse that they call each other's legitimacy into question. This article explores how a collective of alternative healers in central Java navigated the quandaries presented by such therapeutic eclecticism over a six-year period. Healers' engagement with, or indifference toward, the principles underpinning therapeutic efficacy fluctuated in ways that allowed them to surmount the dilemmas of Islamization, the changing demographic of their collective's membership, and the threat of commercialization, thereby maintaining a medical landscape in which alternative healing was widely available and accessible. Transformations in their understanding, experience, and practice of healing should thus be understood in terms of how enduring ethical commitments are refracted through ongoing engagements with a changing social world.

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The meaning ofdukunand allure of Sufi healers: How Persian cosmopolitans transformed Malay–Indonesian history

Cited by 24 publications

References 31 publications

Knowledge of Medicinal Plants as Popular Medicine in Bendan Duwur Community, Semarang City

Knowledge of Medicinal Plants as Popular Medicine in Bendan Duwur Community, Semarang City

Sinful Income? Being Muslims and Magic Agents in Madura Island - Indonesia

“Accept and Utilize”: Alternative Medicine, Minimality, and Ethics in an Indonesian Healing Collective

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