Perselingkuhan Politik Ammatoa:Kajian Antropologi Politik Di Kajang, Bulukumba

Abstract

Kajang community is one of traditional communities in South Sulawesi. The community, led
by Ammatoa, has philosophy of life in the form of oral narrative called as pasang ri Kajang
(holy messages from Kajang), inherited from generation to generation. In daily life the community
members strongly hold pasang ri Kajang, and consider it as the teaching of their
ancestors. However, the tradition and values of pasang ri Kajang have changed. This is seen
from the fact that many Kajang people frequently show deviant behavior, including lying,
nepotism, stabbing from the back, short cutting, and ‘deceitful’. Political intrigue, patronclient,
fraudulent, and political deceitful conducts between Ammatoa and ‘Pak Dewan’ have
strengthened the above fact. As a consequence, pasang ri Kajang has not been considered
as rules existing in the plural values of Kajang community. The elements of pasang ri Kajang
have sunk in the complexity of modernization, and in the politization of Kajang elites. This
further leads to the presumption that the tradition of Kajang people cannot be used anymore
to answer challenges from new values that are relevant and rationale.
Keywords: Kajang community, Ammatoa, pasang ri Kajang, deviant behavior, deceitful.