117 Muakhi culture as ethnic confict management in Lampung Budaya muakhi sebagai manajemen konfik etnis di Lampung Luthf Salim 1* & Idrus Ruslan 2 1 Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Airlangga Surabaya, 60286, East Java Province, Indonesia 2 Departement of Religious Studies, Faculty of Ushuluddin and Religious Studies, UIN Raden Intan Lampung Bandar Lampung, 35131, Lampung Province, Indonesia E-mail of corresponding author: luthfsalim51@gmail.com Abstract The transmigration program forms Lampung society to be multicultural that easily triggers the emergence of ethnic conficts. In Lampung, it has unexpectedly formed enclaves that cause migrants and local people to not be integrated so that there is polarization and an economic gap between migrants and local people. This is because the economy of migrants advances which causes social jealousy. This study aimed to explain muakhi as confict management from pre-confict to post-confict. This study was qualitative research with phenomenology and multiple case approaches. The research data were obtained by in-depth interviews. The results of this study are frst, muakhi in pre-confict management is managed by the traditional leaders to conduct deliberation and agreement. Second, muakhi in post-confict management is managed and controlled by all elements of the community. The village ofcers, traditional leaders, religious leaders, community leaders, or mass organizations remind each other by means of cooperation with the conficting parties. This study concluded that muakhi is able to create social and media integration and a forum for creating peace in accordance with the values and norms in the lives of the community. Keywords: confict management; ethnic confict; muakhi; transmigration Abstrak Program transmigrasi membentuk masyarakat Lampung multikultural yang memudahkan timbulnya konfik etnis. Program transmigrasi di Lampung tidak disadari telah membentuk kantong-kantong yang menyebabkan pendatang dan pribumi tidak terintergrasi sehingga terjadi polarisasi dan gap ekonomi antara pendatang dan pribumi. Hal ini disebabkan ekonomi pendatanng lebih dulu maju yang menyebabkan kecemburuan sosial. Studi ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan muakhi sebagai manajemen konfik dari pra-konfik hingga pasca-konfik. Studi ini menggunakan penelitian kualitatif pendekatan fenomenologi dan multiple case. Data studi ini didapatkan dengan wawancara mendalam. Hasil studi ini menunjukkan bahwa, pertama, muakhi dalam manajemen pra-konfik dikelola oleh tokoh adatnya untuk melakukan musyawarah dan perjanjian. Kedua, muakhi dalam manajemen pasca-konfik dikelola dan dikontrol oleh semua elemen masyarakat. Aparat desa, tokoh adat, tokoh agama, tokoh masyarakat, ataupun ormas saling mengingatkan dengan cara kerjasama antarpihak yang berkonfik. Studi ini menyimpulkan bahwa muakhi mampu menciptakan integrasi sosial dan media serta wadah dalam menciptakan perdamaian yang sesuai dengan nilai dan norma dalam kehidupan masyarakat. Kata Kunci: manajemen konfik; konfik etnis; muakhi; transmigrasi Introduction Ethnic confict in Lampung is developed from the transmigration program which made Lampung society multicultural and caused social inequality. This ethnic confict makes the local people and migrants not integrated properly, resulting in polarization and economic disparities between the local people and migrants because the economy of migrants advances compared to that of the local people (Budianto 2020). The Lampung ethnic community has a friendly principle and is open to migrants. In their local terms, this attitude is called nemui nyimah, which is an expression of the principle of kinship to create an attitude of intimacy and harmony as well as mutual friendship (Nurdin 2017). Jurnal Sosiologi Dialektika https://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jsd.v16i2.2021.117-128