THE REVITALIZATION OF LOCAL WISDOM IN FORMULATING PUBLIC Mukarto Siswoyo Social and Political Sciences Faculty Swadaya Gunung Jati University Cirebon, Indonesia Muksis2000@gmail.com Abstract—Cirebon city as a city of culture and city of guardian has local wisdom values such as pepatah petitih (testament) of Sunan Gunung Jati. One of the most popular testaments is “ingsun titip tajug lan fakir miskin” (I entrust with the mosques and the poor) that mandates to the government of Cirebon city to realize a religious life and the welfare of society. The local visdom values is one the potentials to implement the regional autonomy, so it must be aimed to regional regulation (Perda) in order to they can color and enliven the implementation of local government in Cirebon city. However, there are few of local visdom values that can be found in the implementation of regional regulation of Cirebon city. During the reformation era, the government has made 213 regional regulation of local visdom values but five of them are only implemented. Those are regional regulation No 9 Year 2008 on RPJPD of Cirebon city Year 2005-2025, regional regulation No 1 Year 2009 on RPJMD of Cirebon city Year 2008-2013, regional regulation No 7 Year 2013 on RPJMD of Cirebon city Year 2013-2018, regional regulation No 4 Year 2013 on the Prohibition of Circulation and Sales of Alcohol in Cirebon city, as well as regional regulation No 6 Year 2009 on the Protection of Neglected Children and Children with Special Protection in Cirebon city. In the Perda on Local Government Budget made every year, the budget is used mostly not to Direct Expenditure. It means that Local Government Budget of Cirebon city is not received by society in general. It also shows that the government of Cirebon city and Local House of Representative (DPRD) have lack of storng political will to improve the welfare of society and overcome the poverty problem in Cirebon city in accordance with local wisdom values that represent the testament of Sunan Gunung jati. Keywords— local wisdom, public policy, formulating public policy I. INTRODUCTION Cirebon city is known as a city of culture because it has a lot of cultural wealth, both physical and non physical. Physical cultural assets are such as palaces, arts, buildings and heritage objects, historic sites, traditional culinary, and others. While non phisical asset is such as local wisdom. Local wisdom such as the values prevailing in a socieaty is believed as a truth, so that it becomes a reference for the society to behave in daily life. Local wisdom is a positive thing because it has good values and benefits for human life and its environmen for both natural and social environment. Therefore, local wisdom values should be conserved and kept its existance in order to remain immortal as a guide of human life in addition to religious belief. According to Suyanto (2015), local wisdom can be immortal if it is implemented in the concrete daily life as a response for the change of era. However, in the reality of Indonesia today, it can be said that our local wisdom is as inheritance which we inherited from the ancestors but we cannot implement it in the daily life so that the inheritance becomes useless to respons the change of the era. According Suyatno (2015), local wisdom must be impemented in state policy such as the implementation of economic policy based on mutual cooperation and kinship as one of our local wisdoms. To reach that goal, state ideology (Pancasila) must be implemented in various state policies. Thus, local wisom will be effective as a weapon, not just a heritage, that equips its society to respond the change of the era. Before it is implemented as state policies or public policies, local wisdom values must be incorporated into formulation of public policies such as legislation. In the region, local wisdom values must be incorporated into Perda as the product of law that has highest position. If local wisdom values have been incorporeted into Perda, it will enliven the implementation of it. Cirebon city as a city of culture and guardian has local wisdom values such as pepatah petitih (testament) from Sunan Gunung Jati. One of his most polpular testaments is “Ingsun titip tajug lan fakir miskin”. It is mandated to local government and DPRD of Cirebon city to realize the the government and society based on religious values and assit the poor and save the society. Local wisdom values have positive meaning to incoorprate into Perda so that the values can color and enliven the implementation of local government in Cirebon city. II. DISCUSSION A. Local wisdom Local wisdom is the human intelligence possessed by certain ethnic groups obtained through community experience. Meaning that, local wisdom is the result of certain Copyright © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (ASSEHR), volume 141 International Conference on Public Policy, Social Computing and Development 2017 (ICOPOSDev 2017) 255