Identitas Kultural Dayak

dalam Sajak-sajak H.A. Badar Sulaiman Usin

Ai Kurniati

Balai Bahasa Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah

Jalan Tingang km 3,5 Palangkaraya, Kalimantan Tengah

ai.kurniati@gmail.com

Abstract

Local color literature is one of literary genres which is rarely studied. This article is intended to study H.A. Badar Sulaiman Usin’s (HABSU) poems containing local color element assembled in Rambahan, a collection of poems. HABSU was a poet born and raised up in the Center of Kalimantan Province. This study demonstrates that HABSU’s poems represent Dyak local color and reflect Dyak cultural identity. This representation of Dyak local color is expressed by the use of code mixing, that is the use of Bahasa Indonesia and Dyak language. In addition to that, Dyak local color is articulated by the description of setting which comprises setting of place, setting of nature, and setting of the social culture. Local color literature has a strategic role in the distribution of local identity and values of traditional culture. It even has huge contribution in reviving tradition.