International Journal of Languages’ Education and Teaching ISSN: 2198 – 4999, Doi Number: 10.18298/ijlet.645 Year 4, Issue 3, December 2016, p. 306-319 ETHICS VALUES AS THE PORTRAYAL OF BANYUMAS LOCAL WISDOMS IN THE NOVELS OF AHMAD TOHARI Teguh Trianton 1 , Sarwiji Suwandi, Herman J. Waluyo, & Kundharu Saddhono 2 ABSTRACT This article describes the ethics values as a form of Banyumas local wisdoms represented in Ahmad Tohari’s novels. This study is an effort of culture conservation. Ethic is an ideal form of culture in a form of concept that exists in the minds of community members. Ethics value is a form of local wisdom that serves as a guide giving direction and orientation of human life. The ethics values settle and exist in literary texts with local wisdoms. One of litterateurs who intentionally put the local wisdom into his works is Ahmad Tohari. The method used in this research isdescriptive qualitative. The analysisis using literary techniques to analyze the anthropologycal study the representation ofthe ethics values as a form of Banyumas local wisdoms in Ahmad Tohari’s novels. This study is an effort of culture conservation. Literary anthropology approach was used in this research. This study aims to describes the ethics values as a form of Banyumas local wisdoms represented in Ahmad Tohari’s novels. This study is an effort of culture conservation. The ethics values as Banyumas local wisdoms contained in Ahmad Tohari’s novels deal with the essence issues of; (1) human’s life, (2) human’s work, (3) space and time comprehension, (4) a relationship between human and nature; and (5) a relationship among humans. Key Words: Banyumas, Culture Conservation, Ethics, Local Wisdoms, Novels. 1. Introduction Information technology has narrowed the space and time, even the world. The world’s constriction is a process and highly complex relation, multi-dimension, multi-shape which involves many life aspects including public, social, economic, cultural, and private issue, spirituality. One of the impacts is the foreign culture penetration threatening the existence of local wisdoms and noble values as the national identity contained in it. The noble values, the country’s identity, seem to be fading. This can be seen from the young generations’ lifestyle which look materialistic, hedonic, and consumerism (Pepperell, 2009; Chaney, 2009; Abdullah, 2009; Piliang, 2011: 49; Ibrahim, 2011; Hoed, 2014) In the context of Banyumas people, this world constriction has changed the social structure, life style, and cultural values followed. The noble ethics value has been shifted and replaced by the popular, artificial cultural values. The people’s lifestyle no longer represents the ethics values of local culture. The ethics values coming from the local wisdoms are scraped by the values of materialistic, hedonic, and instant culture from outside. The people, particularly young generation; students and college students, nowadays lack of identity, culture, and noble ethics values. Banyumas contemporary people are now lacking the culture as a result of globalization impact. 1 TeguhTrianton is a student of doctoral program of Bahasa Indonesia Education, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Sebelas Maret University Surakarta (UNS). He is lecturer at University of Muhammadiyah Purwokerto. 2 Sarwiji Suwandi, Herman J. Waluyo, and Kundharu Saddhono is lecturer at postgraduate program of Bahasa Indonesia Education, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Sebelas Maret University Surakarta (UNS).