Refunctionalization of Buton Cultural Values as a Resolution of Social Vulnerability in the City of Baubau

Abstract

This article is the research on re-functionalization of Buton cultural values in overcoming social vulnerability in the City of Baubau, and the strategy to re-function Buton cultural values as a preventive measure in overcoming social vulnerability. The research is used qualitative research. The scope area of this research was in Baubau City, as well as the center of the linkage of the heir groups where the values of the Buton sultanate are longer exist but frequently less practiced. Data collection techniques carried out by collection, arrangement, and in-depth interviews. The well-heeled and complexity of cultural values of Buton will be the source of vigorous society which are dynamic and more challenging in future comings. Within the framework of the renewal the past values and the attachment of the upcoming values come from the values of ethnicity that breathe in Baubau city. Thus, to perform the revitalization is an urgency through the mechanism of activating the role of cultural villages, the use of cultural values in the schools’ curriculum particularly for beginner level in the terms of to mold their cultural foundation, the strengthening of pre-existing Buton’s cultural institutions. These are involving with the key cultural components are Regional regulations (Perda). Further, they will be used to unearth the flexibility of the cultural values of Buton for future reference through the deepening of cultural values consciousness, in the sense of facing the threatened by the emergence of outsider values influences, the expansion of pop cultures, the distrust on the class antagonism and the other possibility of disturbance the authentic of cultural values.