Regenerative-Relational Tritangtu : Sundanese Tritangtu Transformation as Local Wisdom on Indonesia

Abstract

Tritangtu or a trinity mindset  is Sundanese and Minang  communities cosmologist that consist of three entities (three patterns). According to Jakob Sumardjo at the primordial community either Sundanese, Minangkabau, Batak, Malay, Nias, Mentawai, Madura (moor), Nusa Tenggara, South Moluccas, Dayak, North Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, South Sulawesi occupies the Upper World as entity that has women principle  and Under World has men principle, the marriage consequence or harmony both occupies the human Middle World differently. In the Sundanese community, the Upper World occupy the trinity Focus, while the Minang community focused on  the Middle World. From the  field research, tritangtu as  the local wisdom  was also underlying  the creative actors mental structure on making the work  either in the form of performance, artifacts philosophy value and other cultural  product in Indonesian community. Tritangtu on the culture and art education in West Java  was  discoursed  as the primordial community mindset  while   the  contemporary community  also have the trinity mindset in the other form with three similar entity.This study used ethnographic methods with data collection techniques were participant observation, in-depth interviews and documentation.  The object of study is the creative actors practice at the design field in Bandung.The results of  study  pointed out the  Sundanese tritangtu transformation from the permanent structure to dynamic structure. Changes in the structure is determined by the relation between  the design elements forming structure with the global market segmentation. Lending the Sunda identity marker  especially the folk culture or the past traditions  as regenerative effort in  the attempt to harmonize the three patterns on encountering and won a free-market competition in Indonesia

Keywords: Tritangtu, Sundanese, Local Wisdom, Indonesia, Tritangtu Transformation