Implication of Adat Existence in Regionalisation of Politics

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze how democratization through regional election has the potentiality to harmful the existence of an ethnic group that also recognizing as indigenous people in Indonesia. It seems to occur where the political dynamics happen in the regional area. Based on research in the Toraja ethnic group, there is tendency that regional election as regional political event was becoming an arena to protect their existence when faced the outside model to choose the regional head government. Based on tendency on the regional election in 2015, the fact shows that this ethnic group was created, their own unique way to follow the democracy event where in the same time they intend to protect their local values called adat or custom as a shield in front of democracy. It's because, they identified democracy as outside value that tends to diminish even relieve their fundamental social identity as a unique community with their unique symbol of local identity.