Lembaran Antropologi

Yang Tumbuh dari Keseharian: Membaca Warung Pangku sebagai Ruang Pertemuan dan Pengetahuan Sosial dalam Film Pangku (2025)

Isradina Paricha — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0700

Tulisan ini mengulas film debut penyutradaraan Reza Rahadian, Pangku (2025), sebagai lensa untuk memahami dinamika sosial dan produksi pengetahuan yang tumbuh dari keseharian perempuan pekerja di warung pangku sepanjang Jalur Pantura. Berakar pada realitas sosial, film ini memposisikan warung pangku bukan hanya sebagai lokasi persinggahan, melainkan sebagai ruang sosial yang kompleks tempat ekonomi informal, relasi kuasa, dan solidaritas perempuan dinegosiasikan dan dipertahankan. Melalui pendekatan etnografi visual, analisis ini menunjukkan bahwa pengetahuan sosial tidak selalu lahir dari institusi formal, melainkan terwujud dalam praktik keseharian yang berulang dari menyeduh kopi, menata ruang, hingga menjaga batas interaksi dengan pelanggan. Adegan-adegan rutin ini, seperti yang dialami karakter Sartika, mengungkap strategi bertahan hidup, pengelolaan emosi, dan pemahaman mendalam para perempuan terhadap ritme jalan dan ketidakpastian ekonomi. Pengetahuan ini menjadi sumber informasi kolektif dan perlindungan timbal balik di tengah minimnya dukungan negara atau keluarga. Warung pangku digambarkan sebagai mikrokosmos sosial yang dinamis, berfungsi sebagai arena kerja, negosiasi batasan tubuh, dan wadah solidaritas antar perempuan. Film Pangku secara keseluruhan menegaskan bahwa kehidupan di pinggiran Pantura adalah sumber pemikiran dan resistensi yang kaya, menempatkan pengalaman dan agensi perempuan pekerja sebagai subjek yang berharga dalam narasi sosial.

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Pujo Semedi — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0700

Menolak Menjadi Klien: Hilangnya Buruh Tani di Desa Buruh

Caroulus Edra Aptana, Nindyo Budi Kumoro — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0700

Meduran Hamlet, which is primarily home to laborers, is experiencing an employment crisis. This study examines the socio-economic dimensions behind this phenomenon. The research method used an ethnographic approach with a revisiting method to observe the dynamics of change in depth. From a theoretical framework perspective, the loss of laborers was caused by the community’s lack of access to land, which made people reluctant to farm. However, the research findings revealed the opposite: the Meduran community has long been a migrant community without access to land, so working as laborers is the only way to obtain land for farming. Therefore, the problem is not a reluctance to become laborers, which has led to a shortage of agricultural laborers in vegetable farming. Rather, it is the shift in commodities that has created a new culture in the way laborers work, as well as the exposure of the outside world to the world of agriculture, which has made laborers reluctant to farm, especially as vegetable peasants. As a consequence, these two factors have led to the loss of a labor regime that controls or regulates employment. Several efforts have been made, but they have not been successful. Ultimately, this situation has forced farmers to hire labor from outside the hamlet using a group system.

Mining Black Gold from the Dark Tank: Child Labour in Asphalt and Oil Collection Central Java, Indonesia

Realisa Masardi — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0700

This article discusses the condition and perspective of child labourers working in the asphalt and oil residue collection industry in Banyusugih village, Central Java, Indonesia. Employing ethnographic research for six months in Banyusugih village, I was able to conduct 8 recorded interviews, 52 informal interviews, 33 unrecorded interviews, and 5 focus group discussions. This study explores the children's motivation, working techniques, income spending and their parents' involvement in their decision to work in this dangerous area. This article argues that the involvement of children in this sector is systemic and can only be diminished by providing them with better opportunities that are feasible for them.

Kite Hadap je lah: Resistance Traces of Elang Community, Bertuan Island Amid the Proyek Raksasa Eco-City

Rafi Rendian Sulaksono — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0700

Agenda pembangunan di Indonesia seringkali menghadirkan berbagai tantangan, terutama dalam implementasi kerangka kebijakan. Salah satu contohnya dapat dilihat dalam PERMENKO Bidang Perekonomian No. 7/2023, yang secara resmi menetapkan Pulau Bertuan dan sebagian Pulau Alang sebagai lokasi PSN yang dikenal sebagai Proyek Raksasa Eco-City. Penunjukan ini memberikan konteks penting untuk memahami, secara lebih mendalam, ketegangan yang muncul antara negara dan masyarakat lokal terkait kendali dan makna ruang hidup. Studi ini dilakukan di Kelurahan Elang menggunakan pendekatan etnografi kualitatif dengan teknik purposive sampling, dan dianalisis melalui konsep jejak resistensi untuk mengkaji dinamika bentuk-bentuk resistensi sehari-hari dalam masyarakat. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa konflik agraria di Elang bermula dari perebutan legitimasi antara negara dan penduduk lokal atas kendali ruang hidup mereka. Negara, melalui perubahan status tanah, kebijakan HPL, dan mandat Proyek Raksasa Eco-City, membingkai pembangunan sebagai agenda progresif yang mengharuskan reorganisasi spasial. Sebaliknya, komunitas Elang mengonseptualisasikan tanah sebagai ruang hidup yang dibentuk oleh sejarah panjang praktik pembukaan lahan dan permukiman. Pertemuan antara dua rezim legitimasi ini menghasilkan berbagai bentuk marginalisasi, mulai dari intimidasi dan ancaman hingga bentuk kekerasan yang lebih halus. Di tengah ketidakpastian ini, komunitas merespons melalui strategi perlawanan yang cair, mulai dari bentuk penolakan sehari-hari dan pemasangan spanduk protes hingga pembentukan organisasi AMP dan penggunaan media sosial sebagai wadah kontestasi narasi. Keterlibatan mahasiswa dan LSM semakin memperkuat posisi komunitas sebagai subjek politik yang menuntut keadilan dan pengakuan.

Anthropology and Women: Examining the Extent to Which Women’s Voices Have Been Written in Classical Ethnography to the Present

Moh. Faiz Maulana — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0700

This article examines the development of women’s representation within the tradition of anthropological ethnography, ranging from classical ethnography to contemporary feminist anthropology. The article begins with a critique of the androcentric tendencies of classical anthropology, in which male experiences dominated the production of knowledge while women were often positioned as marginal objects within ethnographic texts. Through a literature-based approach and critical analysis of various developments in feminist anthropological theory, this article explores how feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial critiques have transformed the ways women are understood and represented in anthropology. The article argues that the development of feminist anthropology has not merely sought to include women within ethnography, but has also challenged the authority of researchers, the objectivity of knowledge, and the politics of representation in ethnographic production. In addition, this article discusses the challenges faced by contemporary ethnography in writing women’s voices, particularly regarding issues of subjectivity, power relations, intersectionality,
and the emergence of digital spaces that increasingly enable women to actively produce narratives about their own experiences. Therefore, this article emphasizes that the future of feminist anthropology will largely depend on its ability to develop approaches that are more reflexive, dialogical, and open to the diversity of women’s experiences
within constantly changing social contexts.

Navigating Ethnographic Fieldwork as Non-Western Self among Western-Other

Des Christy — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0700

Based on fieldwork among fishers in North Shields, England, as a female Indonesian researcher, this article explores the fluidity of positionality as a result of the field’s sociality. I will reflect on how participant observation, the key component of ethnography, emerged from Western anthropologists’ fieldwork in the “Global South”. The discussion is structured into four sections. Firstly, it examines the ethical imagination’s role in establishing rapport with interlocutors. Secondly, it provides insights into the dynamics of local fishers' lives. Thirdly, it addresses challenges faced as a non-Western female researcher in a predominantly male Western field site, emphasizing the significance of ethical imagination in shaping researcher-participant dynamics. Finally, it argues that being a bricoleur will facilitate for flexibility and reflexivity during fieldwork. With the anthropological landscape continuing to evolve, I contend that there is a pressing demand for a reverse anthropology that can foster more inclusive anthropological research.