The Role of “Bale Langgak” in the Implementation of Socio-Cultural Values in Sasak Community

Abstract

The background of this study is the need to reaffirm the role and function of the family which in Sasak is termed bale langgak. The goal to be achieved in this study is for the community to re-realize the importance of family institutions in educating children with a variety of wisdom values of the Sasak tribe which are rich in philosophical and socio-cultural values. As the smallest social institution, bale langgak (household) has various life values such as spirituality, ethics, morality, norms, and social rules according to the content of semeton, tindih, maliq, mērang, siru, and so forth. Values, ethics, moral and so on are distributed, educated through myths, tales, songs, dialogues, behavior, exemplary, by the older to the younger, and to the children from generation to generation. The study of bale langgak is very relevant when faced with the fact that many things have happened as a result of the rapid development of science and technology which of course has an impact on shifting cultural values, the fall of communal values in society, the unstable institution of marriage, the messy kinship system. Institutions and sociocultural institutions that live are unwilling to die, the loss of ethics and ideals, the spread of violence and paradox in society, individualism and materialism. Everything is the impact of the dynamics of modern world civilization. As part of a social institution, bale langgak plays an important role in the overall concept of the socio-cultural spatial layout of the Sasak people. It is an inseparable part and becomes a unity in the overall concept of the socio-cultural spatial layout of the Sasak people. The symbols, values and institutions of Bale langgak are a necessity in Sasak society. The values of semeton, tindih, maliq, mērang, siru, and many other symbols, are values that live and develop in the Sasak community which were created in order to preserve the Gumi Paēr Sasak, which may only be socialized, controlled and preserved through institutional mechanisms. Bale langgak as part of one of the basic institutions of the Gumi Paēr concept.

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