Preservation of Yellow Bamboo, as an Effort to Maintain the Cultural Tradition of Gorontalo (Case Study of Communication Situation in Dikili Tradition in Gorontalo)

Abstract

Gorontalo people have an identity towards indigenous plants, one of which is yellow bamboo, as one of the plants that are always used in every cultural activity, it is important to maintain and carry out planting in a sustainable manner in order to keep the plants from disappearing so that they can be used sustainably. The use of yellow bamboo (bambusa vulgaris var. striata) is one of them is used in the tradition of Dikili. In this study, researcher focused on communicative situation in Dikili, by using Hymes’s theory about situation, event, and act of communication. The data of this research are from the video documentation and interviewing several people that involved in those cultural activity. This is a qualitative research, to conduct the research, researcher used qualitative approached to describe the communicative situation. The result of this research is there are several communicative events that occurs in Dikili tradition, such as; mopoma'lumu, momuata bohu, mopoloduo, and mongabi, Dikili script is a manuscript of dhikr in Gorontalo language, the manuscript is in the form of narrative or poetry. The content of the manuscript is a story about the life of the Prophet Saw.