Local Wisdom and Identity in a Chain of Pudak

Yuwono, Elisabeth Christine and Natadjaja, Listia (2016) Local Wisdom and Identity in a Chain of Pudak. In: International Conference on Language, Literary and Cultural Studies (ICON LATERALS 2016), 29-10-2016 - 29-10-2016, Malang - Indonesia.

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Abstract

As an archipelago, Indonesia has a diverse culture that lives and grows according to the uniqueness of a region. It could be influenced by habits, the way of thinking and act of the people, or geographic characteristic, that created certain values, which known as local wisdom. Just like Gresik in East Java. As a small city on the edge of the northern coast of Java, Gresik has characteristic that distinguished with another city in Indonesia. For example by its traditional snack, namely pudak. Traditional snack is a typical food of a region, generally a small formed food or snacks. They are typical because mostly they can be found in the specific region only. As a traditional snack, pudak has typical that different to others. One of them is its packaging material that use natural material, namely ope. As a cultural work, pudak and its packaging have values of local wisdom that interesting to be analyzed. This research shows that cooking process, packaging’ materials, and the process of packing contain local wisdoms that become an identity of Gresik. This identity becomes important, due to the globalization era, many people do not know (even do not care) about the cultural meaning of pudak and its packaging.

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