LOCAL RELIGION AND TRADITION FOR ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT A Lesson from Kaenbaun Timorese Traditional Village

Purbadi, Y. Djarot (2005) LOCAL RELIGION AND TRADITION FOR ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT A Lesson from Kaenbaun Timorese Traditional Village. In: 2nd International Seminar and Workshop on Ecological Architecture and Environment in the Tropics, Universitas Soegijapranata, Semarang.

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Abstract

Kaenbaun is a Timorese traditional village, located at the northern of Kefamenanu in the Timor lsland, lndonesia. Kaenbaun is an example of a traditional village with a unified culture of some clans. There are four brother clans (Basan, Timo, Taus and Foni) and four sister clans (Salu, Kolo, Said and Nell) live together in Kaenbaun village since the end of the civil war and of the headhunting tradition in Timor (1920s). The eight , clans agree to live together in Kaenbaun village as an integrated community forever. Their integration was declared in a sacred ceremony by their local king at the peak of Kaenbaun hill in the past Kaenbaun is a systemic traditional village: have sacred hill, secred water spring, sacred clan house, and traditional sacred ceremony. They manage their culture is based on the religious thought and behavior which expressed in the religious ceremony and tradition. The new villages have been developed for the new inhabitants. These newer designed, managed and integrated to the older village physically, villages are planned, spatially, socially and culturally. There is a unique local religion and tradition used in village's management for a comprehensive village development. Field observation and intensive focused group discussion have been done for this paper in a short time. Analysis of the descriptive data show some important principles on traditional village flnaragenErfr hy ffie p@le dD fiirc iin a dry ffi aea (Ab.di Fldr Meto) of the Timor lsland. This is a lesson and has its valued meaning in conservation of the traditional villages in lndonesia, especially in the era of regional autonomy.

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