Konstruksi Sosial masyarakat Tehadap Keramik Asing di Bangunan Masjid Panjunan, Cirebon

Cirebon was a crowded and famous international port city in the past. Many foreign traders stopped by and even settled in this area. One of their activity was establishing a settlement which is called Panjunan. The settlement in Panjunan has a mosque which is quite interesting and it is known as the Panjunan Mosque. The interesting thing in the mosque is the presence of ceramics that were placed on the walls of the mosque as a variety of decoration. The problem raised on this study was to proof the relationship between ceramics and the mosque in Panjunan based on social construction theory. This question leads to the study to find out the background of the use of ceramics. The process of answering these questions is done by using direct observation, literature review, and data analysis by using social theory as the ground base. The results of this study conclude that the use of ceramics as decorative patterns in the Panjunan Mosque is derived by the paradigm of the community member (artists) who are bound with the Panjunan Mosque in providing new understanding or interpretation of ceramics in Cirebon.