Social Movement of Mandar People as a Struggle in Processof Forming West Sulawesi Province

• Main Author: GUSTIANA KAMBO
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta 2014-02-01
• Series: Jurnal Studi Pemerintahan
• Online Access: https://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/jsp/article/view/127

This paper examines the dynamics of ethnicity in South<br />Sulawesi. Mandar is a tribe (ethnic) that lives in the<br />area. This region consists of three regencies (before<br />expansion) which challenged from Mandar kingdoms,<br />ethnic try again confirmed its glory by extending political<br />rights to form an autonomous region through the<br />establishment of a new province in South Sulawesi.<br />This paper focuses on problem, how is the struggle<br />order of forming new province in the former Mandar<br />section and why does formation movement appear in<br />the former Mandar section. By using descriptive<br />qualitative approach which determines informant<br />chosen focus on what is suggested by Patton (1994)<br />where determining informant by using purposive way.<br />The conceptual framework used from Fakih (2000);<br />Nordliger (1994); Suzane Keller (1984); and Ryass<br />Rasyid (2000).the finding of the research describes that<br />struggle movement of forming new province in the<br />former Mandar section is a form of social movement to<br />the positive phenomenon as a constructive means to<br />social struggle where this movement is coordinated by<br />an institution as a historical flame product refers to a<br />number of activities to ease the movement pioneered<br />by intellectual and traditional elite.<br />Key Words: Social Movement, Formation of Province<br />in the Former Section of Mandar; and ethnicity.