On Social and Economic Spheres
An Observation of the “gantangan” Indonesian tradition
Hokky Situngkir
[hs@compsoc.bandungfe.net]
Dept. Computational Sociology
Bandung Fe Institute
Yanu Endar Prasetyo
[yanuendar@yahoo.com]
Centre for Appropriate Technology Development
Indonesian Institute of Sciences
Abstract
Indonesian traditional villagers have a tradition
for the sake of their own social and economic security named “nyumbang”. There are wide variations of
the traditions across the archipelago, and we revisit an observation to one in Subang,
West Java, Indonesia. The paper discusses and employs the evolutionary game
theoretic insights to see the process of “gantangan”,
of the intertwining social cohesion and economic expectation of the
participation within the traditional activities. The current development of the
“gantangan” traditionis approached
and generalized to propose a view between the economic and social sphere
surrounding modern people. The interaction between social and economic sphere
might be seen as a kind of Lokta-Volterra’s predator-prey-like interaction,
where both are conflicting yet in a great necessity one another for the
sustainability of the social life. While some explanationsdue to the current
development of “gantangan” is drawn,
some aspects related to traditional viewscomplying the modern life with social
and economic expectations is outlined.
Keywords: social and
economic sphere, traditional village ecology, evolutionary game theory, social
security.
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