Social Construction of Community in Kawi Mountain (Actualization of Society and State Religion)

Abstract

This paper disseminated result of study on sacred grave Kawi Mountain with its tradition and its unique especially on society and state argumentation in tourism industrial context. The problem rose on who did what, where, why and how he/she did it also interaction and intervention of state on society and market were crucial. To answer those questions, qualitative approach used in this study and was conducted ethnographically. Data collected through observation, interview and literary study. Data analysis conducted by arranging theme, contrast analysis and specifically mapping debate on society and state. Result of study is economy production, consumption and economy distribution in state domination: Scared grave community Kawi mountain comprises of two groups; Java and Chinese ethnics. As with the pilgrim, the community called them as bolah ireng for Javanese and bolah putih for Chinese. Politically, there is fighting between foundation and elite local of scared grave, but it is under village government authority. Its implication is that empirical reality support politic economical concept; describe briefly the process on fighting economy assets; involving parties. This reality seems to be related and eluded also occur between externalization, objectivities and internalization. It is processing in history, dialectic and simultaneous. Reality on Kawi Mountain is basically religion reality that cannot be separated from culture and politics, which the purpose is money. Therefore, whether or not religion being realized, it has been commodity. Keywords— social construction, society religion, state, tourism, scared grave