Semiotics of Seven-Colors Lodeh Vegetable

Abstract

When the COVID-19 pandemic spread throughout Indonesia, an appeal was made for the community to cook Lodeh vegetables again. This appeal circulated through WhatsApp groups among the people of Yogyakarta. The appeal for cooking the Seven Colors Lodeh vegetable certainly has a connotative meaning that is inherent to the substance, practices, habits that are part of the difference marker system [1]. Using semiotic analysis which sets out three basic questions "What does it mean? How to interpret it? Why does it mean that? (Danesi, 2007: 141) There are findings that since the Dutch colonial era Lodeh vegetables have been known to the public. Vegetable Lodeh Seven Colors has a sign that people are careful and alert for disasters. Vegetable Lodeh has the meaning of gratitude as well as repellent reinforcements. The Symbolic meaning of Lodeh Vegetables are parts of Indonesian local wisdom respond to the pandemic.