Local cultural values implementation in the Kaili Ethnic Community in History Learning for the Course of Indonesian History around 1500 BCE

Abstract

The research objective is to identify and incorporate local cultural values in the Kaili ethnic community into the Tadulako University History Education Study Program's course "Indonesian History around 1500 BCE." Creswell defined this as a qualitative study that used two (2) research methods: ethnography and classroom action research (CAR). Mopae's cultural values were incorporated into the CAR. The research was conducted in two sub-districts: Sigi Kota Sub-district and Sigi Biromaru Sub-district. This research concentrated on the Kaili ethnic community, specifically the Sigi City and Sigi Biromaru sub-districts. CAR was conducted in the third (third) semester for the course 'Indonesian history around 1500 BCE' with 30 students and a lecturer history education study program, Tadulako University serving as research subjects. This research discovered three cultural values of Mopae local wisdom: 1) activity through a sustainable planting system, 2) activity through nakapali, and 3) enacting customary rules orally through punishment/sompo or penalty as an effort to preserve culture and pass it on to the younger generation, which is implemented in the learning process at universities, in history education study programs in the course 'Indonesian history around 1500 BCE. It is an effort to instill Mopae cultural values in the Kaili ethnic community in Sigi Regency through disaster mitigation, harmony, empathy for the environment, water conservation, and waste disposal.