Pelatihan dan Pembelajaran Metode Riset Aksi Partisipatoris Untuk Pemajuan Kebudayaan

Abstract

Sumba as one of the 3T (Tertinggal/Disadvantaged, Terdepan/frontmost, Terluar/Outermost)
regions in Indonesia has a crisis of acculturation in its development, where local customs and
culture are no longer able to meet the demands of renewal of the development. Many scholars have
conducted research and studies on Sumba and meanwhile, not a few Sumba people go outside Sumba
to study and are expected to bring change to the land of Sumba. However, the crisis still occurs.
Community Action Plans (CAP) are a way for the community to participate in the development.
What is often questioned is the quality of the CAP itself which was conceived as a bottom-up effort
in the development. Anthropology with its ethnographic methods and holistic participatory research
methods can enrich the CAP to structure it to be more qualifed by considering the principles of
cultural advancement.
Tis training and learning of participatory action research methods offer a way to explore sociocultural capitals as the identity of the community to adjust to the changing times that occur through
development. Te Sumba student community who are studying in Yogyakarta and its surroundings
are invited to play a role through the training and learning of the CAP-based culture promotion
method so that they are expected to become pioneers in the development of Sumba culture through
active community participation in Sumba. In addition, the Sumba community is expected to change
as the times progress towards a more prosperous world without leaving their identity as Sumba people.