Proceedings of The 6 th Annuual International Conference Syiah Kuala University (AIC Unsyiah) in conjunction with The 12 th International Conference on Mathematics, Statistics and Its Application (ICMSA) 2016 October 4-6, 2016, Banda Aceh, Indonesia Social Science 309 Honesty in Indonesian Literature 1* B. B. Dwijatmoko, 2 B. Ria Lestari 1 The Graduate Program in English Language Studies, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta 55002, Indonesia; 2 English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta 55002, Indonesia; * Corresponding Author: b.b.dwijatmoko@gmail.com Abstract As a reflection of human experience (Meyer, 1997; Dubey, 2013), literature reflects the values which a society holds. Indonesian literature, therefore, may also reflect honesty, an important value in a society, in the literature of Indonesian people. This research is a corpus study on honesty in Indonesian literature. This study aims at knowing the meaning of honesty in Indonesia as it is reflected in its literature and identifying the motivations which drive Indonesian people to be honest. The data are sentences which use the word jujur 'honest', kejujuran 'honesty', and sejujurnya 'honestly'. The analysis reveals that honesty falls into two types, namely verbal honesty and behavioral honesty. The analysis also reveals the motivations that drive Indonesian people to talk and behave honestly. Key words: Honesty, verbal honesty, behavioral honesty, motivations, Indonesian literature. Introduction Honesty is one of the most important characteristics which people need to have (Van Lange & Kullman, 1994; Shanks, 2005). Frankel (2006, p. iii) states that honesty is important in "both in personal and business relationships" besides trust. People need to have honesty to gain trust from other people. Darminta (2007) states that honesty is essential for a mutual trust in human relation, and without truth and honesty life and personal relation will be ruined. As a reflection of human experience (Meyer, 1997; Dubey, 2013), literature reflects the values which a society holds. Indonesian literature, therefore, may also reflect the concepts of honesty which Indonesian people believe and practice in their life. This paper reports a study of honesty in Indonesian literary works. This study hopefully can reveal the meanings of honesty for Indonesian people and the motivations which drive Indonesian people to be honest or dishonest. The study is important in that its result may help people understand each other better, and it can be used as a reference for developing honesty. Research Method This paper is a corpus study using the corpus website www.corci.org. It used a large number of works stored in the site (47 Indonesian novels and 323 legends and folktales). Despite the number of literary works, a search in the site using the key words jujur 'honest', kejujuran 'honesty', and sejujurnya 'honestly' only yielded 235 sentences which used the key words. All the sentences were, then, analyzed to achieve the research goals. Using the principles of the grounded theory (Strauss & Corbin, 1998; Gray, 2004; Neuman, 2007), the research proceeded in three stages. In the first stage (open coding), the characteristics of honesty which appeared with the key words were studied and identified. This stage resulted in meanings of honesty. In the second stage (axial coding), the contexts of the meanings were identified. This stage produced the classification of the meanings of honesty and the features which differentiated one meaning from another. In the third or last stage (selective coding), the meanings were validated against more data and were organized to formulate the types of honesty. The three stages were also taken to identify the motivations that drove the speakers or characters in the literary works studied to be studied.