Etnisitas dalam Sastra Indonesia:

Gambaran Sastra Indonesia di Yogyakarta

Imam Budi Utomo

Balai Bahasa Yogyakarta

Abstract

This article wants to find out ethnicity in Indonesian literature, especially in Yogyakarta. The analysis employs descriptive method. Result of the analysis demonstrates that ethnicity in Indonesian literature includes two related meaning, internal and external. Internal meaning says that Indonesian literature has central and local polarizations. Either internal or external, ethnicity in the Indonesian literature is a legitimate phenomenon. This could be seen from its historical background; that is Indonesia as a group of diverse ethnics which comprises one nation, one country and one language, Indonesian. That is why, works of literature that use Indonesian as the unification language would not be freed from the idea and ethnic element where the literary men were born and raised. Under the threat of nation disintegration as the consequence of extreme centralized control toward local governments in the past, ethnicity in the Indonesian literature as a form of decentralization becomes an alternative forum for different Indonesian ethnics to reinforce the Indonesian identity. Yogyakarta offers this kind of alternative.