Creating the Script of Kid’s Storybook Design about Betawi Cultural

Community in Setubabakan

Hagung Kuntjara Sambada Wijasa

, Octavianus Frans

Creative Advertising Program, Visual Comunication Departement, School of Design, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta,

Indonesia, 11480

Keywords: Children Storybook, Setu Babakan, Betawi Culture.

Abstract: The knowledge of a culture can be presented into an interesting story and easily to understand. This paper

discusses the process of creating a story telling about a diversity of Betawi’s culture that will be presented in

a visual book medium for kids. The challenge is how to construct a plot of the story that composes a

diversity of potentially Betawi’s cultural and simultaneously designs its visualizations to appeals youth

readers. Throughout the process of design research using the method of field observation in the area of The

Center of Betawi Cultural Village - Setu Babakan, which used as the background of story. The design of

storytelling visual books for kids with Betawi culture as a topic is an effort to preserve the culture and the

development of creativity aimed to the new generation.

1 INTRODUCTION

Setu Babakan or meaning Babakan Lake is a large

lake area of 32 hectares of area (79 acres) is used to

accommodate the water flow of the Ciliwung river.

Setu Babakan is located in Srengseng Sawah,

Jagakarsa subdistrict, South Jakarta. Setu Babakan

area also serves as the 'lungs' of green city, this place

serves as a city forest buffer green areas balancing

air pollution of Jakarta, especially South Jakarta.

Through S.K. Governor no 92 of 2000, Setu

Babakan area is designated as a preserved cultural

heritage area for the conservation and development

of Indigenous Betawi cultural heritage, as well as a

cultural destination.

In 'Betawi’s Cultural Village - Setu Babakan' can

be found and enjoyed a lifestyle with Betawi’s

nuances, such as; Betawi community, natural beauty

with Betawi traditional architectural, groups of

Betawi traditional performing arts shows every

weekend. Setu Babakan also has Betawi's

information and documentation center, traditional

dances and music courses, and martial art or pencak

silat 'Beksi' original Betawi. Various Betawi

culinary hawkers are sold there.

All the potential and activities in Setu Babakan

can be utilized as a cultural preservation and

development of Betawi tradition in accordance with

the present needs. Setu Babakan is also useful as a

form of potential development of the environment

and improving the welfare of surrounding

communities and as one of the cultural attractions in

Jakarta.

The term Betawi refers to a group of people who

have similar cultural identity and claim to be the

original inhabitants of Jakarta (Sucipto, 2006). The

form of culture according to J.J. Hoenigman is

divided into three; Ideas, Activities, and Artifacts

(Koentjaraningrat, 2009). Idea (abstraction of an

ideal) is abstract values, norms, rules that are

adhered to and live in the minds of community.

Activities (actions) are patterns of behavior, social

systems, concrete, occur in everyday life and can be

observed and documented. The artefacts (works) of

visible, touchably objects are real. Betawi people

and the three forms of culture; Ideas, Activities and

Artifacts can be found in Setu Babakan, the

challenge is how to construct a complex

understanding of Betawi culture into an interesting

and easy-to-follow storyline for children's readers.

Creation of Story Telling for Visual Books Design

for Children can serve as enrichment of cultural

recognition materials in 'Local Content' courses in

elementary school education.

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Creating the Script of Kid’s Storybook Design about Betawi Cultural Community in Setubabakan.

DOI: 10.5220/0010006600002917

In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities (BINUS-JIC 2018), pages 284-288

ISBN: 978-989-758-515-9

2 METHOD

The method used is filed research, listing all the

potential of Betawi culture found in Setu Babakan,

grouping into several categories and searching for

depth of meaning and purpose through appropriate

literature and ask to the expert who can explain

about Betawi culture.

All the field findings and the patterns of

relationships between Idea, activities, Betawi

cultural artefacts are pledged as a tipping point for

the creation of a story script.

3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Setu Babakan is a lake a place for water recreation,

such as; water boats - duck paddles, dragon boats

with a team passengers, witnessed the attraction of

the fish catching in the morning and a fishing area

overlooking lakes or ponds rented around the lake.

Extensive green field is an area for those who

like the activities of sports morning, walking,

running, cycling, or gymnastics. The track line that

surrounds the vast Setu Babakan lake is a convenient

route along the viewing eye. The park around the

lake is planted with a variety of fruit trees, namely;

Mango, Palem, Melinjo, Rambutan, Jambu, Pandan,

Kecapi, Jamblang, Krendang, Buni, Cimpedak

Jackfruit, Nam-nam, Jengkol, etc.

Betawi specialties of culinary are often found in

the Setu Babakan tourism area, such as; Kerak

Telor, Toge Goreng, Arum Manis, Rujak Bebeg,

Soto Betawi, Es Potong, Es Duren, Bir Pletok, Nasi

Uduk, Nasi Ulam, etc. was sold there.

Figure 1: Setu Babakan – cultural activities and ambient.

Cultural tours are presented such as : typical

Betawi home architectural (Salim, 2015) divided

into a three of kinds; (1) house Betawi warehouse or

Rumah Gudang (2) houses Betawi Kebaya or Rumah

Kebaya/ Bapang (3) is Joglo house or Rumah Joglo,

almost similar to a typical house architectural of

Yogyakarta. Mosque buildings and village houses,

even food stall kiosks are also not spared from the

architectural character of betawi decorated with

balustrades and lisplang named Gigi Balang.

Art performances such as; Lenong, Gambang

Kromong, Lenggang Nyai Dance, and Ngarojeng

Dance, Ondel-ondel, Topeng Dance, Tanjidor,

Marawis, etc. is a variety of cultural performances

that can be enjoyed on the main stage at Setu

Babakan and has been scheduled each month.

Implementation of traditional ceremonies in Betawi

village - Setu Babakan, such as; Brides of

Circumcision, Slametan Moving House prayer,

Khatam Qur'an, Tujuh Bulan ceremony, can be done

here, even if there are visitors who wish to hold a

ceremony as mentioned above, can organize and

arrange it in this place with the agreement.

3.1 Setu Babakan Cultural Tourism

Basically in summary the variety of cultural tourism

offered in the 'Betawi Culture Village Center - Setu

Babakan' consists of 4 kinds, namely;

1. Nature and Water Recreation Tour

2. Cultural Tour (performances of cultural and

tradition attractions, Betawi dance and Silat Beksi

learning course, Betawi Hajatan, Betawi village

architecture, etc.)

3. Tradition Culinary Tour (various hawker

snack and Betawi cuisine)

4. Excellence Fisotek Tour (plant seeds, fruits,

and fish - poultry and consumption).

3.2 Story Telling

Developing story telling design (wikiHow, 2017) for

children requires strong imagination and emphatic

ability to see things from the point of view of

children. Data obtained from fieldwork are

disaggregated and grouped as the basis of the story

material. Brainstorming is done to determine the

storyline plot pattern with various routes and will be

chosen the simplest and most interesting. Children's

characters are created as story actors as well as a

narrator about the village where they live Setu

Babakan, kids readers will feel like getting stories

from their friends. The morals of story will be

inserted into each storyline, so a knowledge of

diverse elaborate Betawi cultures can be conveyed

simply and appealingly.

It is important to recognize the age categories of

the target audience. The use of language, storytelling

style, atmosphere and imagination are usually

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arranged according to the age group of the child and

adapted to the ability of the child in that age group.

For 2-4 or 4-7 years age group should use simple

word and language or very short sentence and

assisted by many pictures. Arranging stories for

children aged 8-10 years can already use a more

complex short sentences.

The name of Betawi children's Actor is taken

from Muslim repertoire, most of the Betawi

population are Muslim. The boy's character named

Mamat comes from the name of Muhammad, the

Betawi people like to call the name with short names

so that the name of Muhammad becomes Mamat.

The character of a girl named Hanifah in Arabic

means straight or firm stance, as the Betawi dialect

of Hanifa's name becomes Ipeh. Mamat and Ipeh are

popular names in Betawi society.

3.3 The Story Plot

The story plot is divided into 4 plots with Title as

story shortcut.

The title of the story is an interesting sentence as

well as the essence of the story to be built.

Plot 1. Introduction of the character (Mamat

and Ipeh) and the setting of Kampung Setu Babakan

(Explain a Traditional clothing, Setu Babakan

village, location, lake situation and green

atmosphere, architectural houses of Betawi

traditions)

Plot 2. MAMAT, representing the life cycle

of the typicaly Betawi boy

(Learning Betawi martial art - Silat Beksi (Nawi,

2015), Ondel-ondel around the village, bride of

circumcision or ‘Pengantin Sunat’, ‘Hajatan’ or

circumcision ceremony and a customary party,

ideals Mamat hope and whisful thinking)

Plot 3. ENKONG (the grandfather) and

Tanjidor music group.

(A moral stories as a messages to preserve the

tradition Tanjidor music group keep alive)

Plot 4. IPEH, representing of the typicaly Betawi

girls

(Learn to dance Ngaronjeng - Betawi,

persistence and love of dance, practice continuously,

dance competition, dance stage, the ideal of

introducing Betawi dance to the world)

3.4 The Script of Plot Result (in

Bahasa)

The Title:

MAIN KE SETU BABAKAN YUK!

Bersama Mamat & Ipeh

Figure 2: The title.

The Script of Plot 1:

Adik-adik yang baik… kalau kalian ada waktu,

main dan singgahlah ke kampung Mamat dan Ipeh.

Kampung Budaya Betawi – Jakarta, Setu Babakan

namanya. Meskipun berada di Jakarta, kampung

Mamat dan Ipeh jauh dari kebisingan kota maupun

kepadatan bangunan dan gedung bertingkat.

Di kampung ini masih banyak dijumpai rumah-

rumah Betawi yang asri, rindang pepohonan hijau

dengan sebuah danau besar menghampar seluas

kampung yang dinamai danau Setu Babakan. Di

kampung inilah Mamat dan Ipeh tinggal, bermain

dan belajar bersama teman-temannya.

Figure 3: Visual for the script of plot 1.

The Script of Plot 2:

Satu minggu sekali, Mamat dan teman-temannya

berlatih silat Betawi

yang disebut ‘silat Beksi’ kepada bapak Guru

Nirin.

Bapak Guru Nirin adalah pendekar silat

kampung Betawi. Beliau sering diundang berlaga

sebagai pesilat

pembuka palang pintu jika ada tamu dari luar

kampung terutama pada saat hajatan pernikahan.

Bapak Guru Nirin berpesan “Kalian nanti boleh

menggantikan bapak sebagai pesilat Beksi

penjaga kampung Betawi… tapi harus tekun

beribadah dan sabar.

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“Si Mamat Khitan… pada dating yeee!!! … si

Mamat Pengantin Sunat!!”

Ondel-ondel dengan iring-iringan music

Kromong mengelilingi kampung dengan pengeras

suara meriah…

mengabarkan berita… si Mamat akan dikhitan.

Semua warga kampung keluar rumah dan

bergembira menikmati tontonan Ondel-ondel.

Sementara si Mamat sang jagoan silat… duduk

di atas kuda tunggang

sambil menyimpan rasa takutnya hendak di

kithan.

Figure 4: Visual for the script of plot 2.

Hari itu rumah si Mamat dipenuhi para tamu

yang menghadiri meriahnya pesta hajatan si Mamat

– sang Pengantin Sunat. Para pedagang makanan

dan mainan berbaris di pelataran rumah menanti

para pembeli, yang ramai menunggu tontonan film

layar tancap nanti malam.

Semua orang berseri-seri wajahnya terutama

Nyak, Babe juga si Ipeh, dan tentu saja si Mamat

yang sibuk

menerima kado dan lupa akan sakitnya dikhitan.

Para tamu menyalaminya dengan memberikan

amplop hadiah berisi uang jajan

dan tak lupa mendoakan si Mamat “Jagoan

Beksi sudah gede sekarang… yang rajin beribadah

yaaa”

Uang tabungan si Mamat mendadak jadi banyak.

Mamat berkeinginan memiliki computer sendiri

yang tersambung dengan internet… dari sana

Mamat akan mempelajari

jenis-jenis beladiri dari berbagai negara lain.

The Script of Plot 3:

Engkong atau kakek si Mamat dan Ipeh adalah

pemilik kelompok music Tanjidor Betawi.

Tanjidor adalah kelompok musik tiup dan band

yang memainkan lagu-lagu Betawi

dalam irama mars yang meriah

Alat musik Tanjidor milik Engkong konon

berasal dari pasukan Belanda,

yang diwarisinya dari orang tua

Figure 5: Visual for the script of plot 3.

Ada dua harta yang tidak pernah akan Engkong

tukar…

yaitu, alat musik Tanjidor dan mobil pick-up tua,

pernah semua alat musik Tanjidor Engkong

mau dibeli orang asing seharga mobil baru

untuk menggantikan mobil tuanya…

tapi Engkong menolaknya.

Engkong memilih terus memainkan musik

Tanjidor bersama teman-teman seusianya…

menghibur banyak orang… dan nanti kelak akan

memberikan semua alat music Tanjidor miliknya itu

kepada

siapapun anak muda Betawi yang mau berlatih

memainkannya.

The Script of Plot 4:

Sedangkan si Ipeh, dia tekun sekali berlatih tari

Betawi, layaknya olah raga gerak badan melenggak-

lenggok mengikuti irama musik Gambang Kromong

menari ‘Ngaronjeng’ – tarian Betawi. Impian Ipeh…

memperkenalkan keindahan tari Betawi ke seluruh

dunia.

Figure 6: Visual for the script of plot 4.

Berbagai kejuaraan di pentas Tari Betawi telah

Ipeh peroleh,

namun Ipeh terus berlatih dan berkeinginan

menampilkan tarian terbaiknya untuk perayaan

HUT DKI Jakarta

di kampung Setu Babakan.

Hari yang dinanti telah tiba, HUT DKI Jakarta

di kampung Setu Babakan. Nah… ini kesempatan si

Ipeh untuk

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menari sebaik-baiknya. Penonton terpukau

dengan gerakan tari yang lincah diiringi hentakan

music riang.

Penonton bersorak dan riuh bertepuk tangan

tanda menikmati tontonan tarian si Ipeh.

“Si Ipeh… benar-benar bintang panggung tari

Betawi!”

Rupanya… tidak hanya masyarakat Betawi di

Setu Babakan yang terhibur, bahkan…

Bp. Gubernur DKI Jakarta sebagai salah satu

tamu di perayaan ini berkenan memberikan

ucapan selamat dan hadiah kepada si Ipeh –

penari cilik Betawi.

Saat beliau bertanya “Apa cita-citamu kalau

besar nanti nak?” Ipeh menjawab dengan lantang

“Mau memperkenalkan tari Betawi ke seluruh

dunia!”.

“Kamu anak Betawi yang hebat” kata pak

Gubernur bangga.

The Synopsis:

Mengikuti kisah petualangan si Mamat dan si

Ipeh di tempat kelahirannya di kampung budaya

Betawi

– Setu Babakan alangkah serunya! Kalian akan

belajar banyak tentang budaya Betawi dan alam

kampung Setu Babakan. Selamat menikmati!

4 CONCLUSIONS

Introduction of culture through Story Telling Visual

Books Design for kids, can be a support of learning

local cultural content subjects. Cultural knowledge is

very complex can be made as simple and easily

captured through an interesting storyline.

Through the story, children can learn to know

Betawi culture with light and fun. Moral stories are

always linked to every storyline, so since childhood

the children will understand the meaning and

usefulness of cultural artefacts is a reflection of the

pattern of behavior and beliefs of the culture.

Indonesia has a wealth of diverse cultures.

Learning culture is appreciating differences and

diversity. This paper is the result of research that

will be continued in subsequent research so that the

story telling design can be visualized and become a

complete visual book.

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