IJRSS Volume 6, Issue 1 ISSN: 2249-2496
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International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
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401
January
2016
Identity Weakening of Bali Aga in Cempaga
Village
I Wayan Budi Utama
*
Abstract:
Bali Aga village communities of Cempaga, Buleleng, in the beginning is that very few under the
influence of Hindu Java. They live in mountainous areas of Buleleng and their religious tradition
is different with the Hindu community in Bali plains. Rituals that they did initially led by a
woman who called Bali Desa. Changes that lead to further erosion of the identity of the Bali Aga
occurred since the early 1970s when the process of Hindunisation through political activity and
religious broadcasting activities carried out by adopting the teachings of the Balinese Hindu
plains. This is reinforced by socio-economic conditions of society that began to rise, and the
active role of elite / local actors in the Cempaga village in the process of cultural adaptation.
Increasing socio-economic status of the people in the village of Cempaga encourage them to do
the movement "ngalih soroh" (clan mobility) so that identity as a people of "kesamen" (equal)
become extinct.
Keywords: Bali Aga, Identity, soroh, Cempaga Village, Kesamen, Ulu-apad
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Senior Lecturer at Universitas Hindu Indonesia (UNHI)