The Return of Pua Kumbu: The Struggle of the Iban Traditional Weaving in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Semiarto A. Purwanto, A. Cahyo Nugroho, Nita Trismaya

2018

Abstract

The paper describes struggle of a local tradition to survive in a changing of complex and rapid social and cultural context. Pua kumbu as part of the old Iban culture was overlooked, as was the case with the Iban tribe who were regarded as underdeveloped. Despite of many changes, pua kumbu is still very popular and widely spread in the Iban communities in Batang Lupar Sub-district, Kapuas Hulu District, West Kalimantan, which became the site of our two months observation early in 2018. While many experts believe that the growing contribution of local culture in current Indonesia was related to the launching of the Law of Regional Autonomy Indonesia, we argue that the process is more complicated. Our research shows that Iban weaving or pua kumbu was basically never completely disappeared from the life of Iban people. It is last for centuries since the Iban still considers it as scared and a part of their custom-bound life. As there also some NGO facilitations to conserve traditional weaving and the commersialization of them, we conclude that the continuity of pua’ kumbu is contain with social and cultural narrative to include adat, close interaction with development agents, and market.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Purwanto S., Nugroho A. and Trismaya N. (2018). The Return of Pua Kumbu: The Struggle of the Iban Traditional Weaving in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 1519-1525. DOI: 10.5220/0009931115191525

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Semiarto A. Purwanto and A. Cahyo Nugroho and Nita Trismaya},
title={The Return of Pua Kumbu: The Struggle of the Iban Traditional Weaving in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan, Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={1519-1525},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009931115191525},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - The Return of Pua Kumbu: The Struggle of the Iban Traditional Weaving in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Purwanto S.
AU - Nugroho A.
AU - Trismaya N.
PY - 2018
SP - 1519
EP - 1525
DO - 10.5220/0009931115191525