Reducing Java's Transmigrant Conflict With Indigenous People through Multicultural Education

摘要

Melawi Regency is colored by various tribes, characterized by various cultures, languages, and religions embraced, and diverse cultural value system contained in the community. Dayak tribe is one of indigenous tribes located in Melawi, besides there are also the descendants of Malayu migrants such as Banjar, Java, Sunda, Madura, and China. The transmigration program entered into the Melawi region in 1984. It is conducted by the Small Dry Land Group in Tanjung Sari Village area. Since the application of the program, there happened some conflicts arising between transmigrants and indigenous people in Melawi. One of them is about land ownership and the boundary. Given the conflict between transmigrant communities and indigenous peoples, this research becomes important to give better understanding on how to conquer conflict by instilling multicultural education in Melawi. The purpose of this study was to analyze the occurrence of conflict sources between Javanese transmigrants and indigenous people in Melawi based on the perspective of trinity theory. The method used in this research was qualitative research approach. The results of this study showed that the source of conflict between Javanese transmigrants and indigenous people in Melawi could be overcome by the theory of trinity Piere Bourdieu which states that habitus, social modality and arena are key to social reproduction because it is central in generating and regulating practices, practices that shape social life.