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2018 - Volume 2 - Number 2


The Role of Benteng Chinese Women in Reinforcing Cultural and Economic Resilience

Rahmat Saehu * rahmatsaehu@student.uns.ac.id * ORCID: 0000-0002-2118-8757 * Researcher ID: Y-7350-2018
Universitas Sebelas Maret, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Department of Sociology

R.B. Soemanto * rbs@staff.uns.ac.id
Universitas Sebelas Maret, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Department of Sociology

Drajat Tri Kartono * drajattri@staff.uns.ac.id * ORCID: 0000-0001-8717-5324
Universitas Sebelas Maret, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Department of Sociology

Open Journal for Anthropological Studies, 2018, 2(2), 53-60 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojas.0202.02053s
Online Published Date: 23 December 2018

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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KEY WORDS: Benteng Chinese women, cultural and economic resilience, cooperatives, social capital.

ABSTRACT:
Cultural shift and poverty problem are two matters occurring most frequently in marginalized customary community environment. Those two matters also occur in Benteng Chinese community living in Tangerang area. This research aimed to describe the role of Benteng Chinese women in Community’s cultural and economic resilience. The method employed in this research was qualitative one with Ethnographic approach. This research took place in Kelurahan Mekarsari, Neglasari Sub District, Tangerang City, Banten Province. Eight informants were employed in this study: Benteng Chinese community, members of Lentera Benteng Jaya Resource Development Female Cooperatives, members of Cokek Sipatmo Dance group, and those related. Techniques of collecting data used were interview and observation. Data validation employed source and method validities with Spradley’s Developmental Research Sequence model analysis technique. The result of research showed that cultural and economic resilience problems can be dealt with using social capital the Benteng Chinese women affiliated in Lentera Benteng Jaya Resource Development Female Cooperatives have.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Rahmat Saehu, Masters Program in Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Sebelas Maret. Ir. Sutami Street No. 36A, Jebres, Surakarta, Central Java, INDONESIA. E-mail: rahmatsaehu@student.uns.ac.id.


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