Negosiasi Tradisi Dan Perubahan Sosial dalam Novel Ronggeng Dukuh Paru Karya Ahmad Tohari

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the forms of negotiation between tradition and social change represented in Ahmad Tohari’s novel Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk. The study employs a descriptive qualitative method with a sociology of literature approach. The data consist of words, phrases, sentences, dialogues, and narratives that represent traditional practices and social changes in the life of the Dukuh Paruk community. Data were collected through intensive reading and note-taking, while data analysis was conducted by identifying, classifying, interpreting, and drawing conclusions based on the relationship between tradition and social change represented in the novel. The findings indicate that the ronggeng tradition constitutes an important part of the Dukuh Paruk community’s life and functions as a marker of collective identity and communal continuity. However, the tradition encounters social changes marked by the emergence of education, changing ways of thinking, political influences, and transformations in social relations. These encounters do not merely result in the rejection of tradition but reveal processes of maintaining, adapting, and questioning traditional practices. Therefore, tradition in the novel is not portrayed as a static cultural entity but as a dynamic practice that undergoes negotiation in response to social change and the historical conditions of the community.