COVID-19 and the Local Tradition of the People of North Maluku

Journal of Maritime Studies and National Integration: JMSNI

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Susanto Zuhdi¹  Irfan Ahmad²  Andi Sumar Karman³  Safrudin Abdulrahman³  Noor Fatia Lastika Sari¹ 

[1] Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia;History Department, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Khairun Ternate;Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Khairun Ternate

关键词: Archipelago community;    Local wisdom;    North Maluku;    Oral tradition;    Pandemic.;   

DOI  :  10.14710/jmsni.v6i1.10397

来源: Doctoral Program of History, Faculty of Humanities, Diponegoro University

【 摘 要 】

Dealing with pandemics has never been a new issue, seen from theperspective of the history of mankind. It was a manifestation ofl’histoire se répète. As an example, a few centuries prior to the BlackDeath and Cholera Outbreak, Galvao wrote that a respiratorydisease had broken out in Ternate around 1553, while De Clercqmentioned a deadly plague in Bacan throughout 1706-1709.Traditionally, these issues were treated as a result of badlyconducted supernatural rituals. They opted for herbal treatments,and exorcism, and even migrated to the hinterland as an act of selfquarantine. Today, COVID-19 has become a global pandemic andreached the islands of North Maluku province, with Ternate as theepicentrum of the outbreak. However, there has been a resolution, which facilitates anothertraditionally crafted effort, such as Liliyan, Barifola, and Rera, based on the oral tradition mentionedin Dora Bololo. We seek to discover how far cultural aspect would affect the economic and social lifeof the locals, as well as in what domain tradition and local practice should contribute to the currentsituation. Thus, this research aims to understand and analyze such a combination of traditionallygenerated solutions within a current scientific framework, especially on how history, anthropology,as well as archival, and memory study could understand the living aspect of the locals and thereforeapply Vansina’s (1985) approach in oral tradition as historical sources.

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