SUSTAINABILITY OF CULTURAL VALUES, INHERITANCE, AND LITERACY IN STRENGTHENING HUMAN RESOURCES IN MINANGKABAU

Abstract

Objective: To obtain an overview of the reality of the concept and construction of original cultural values in the lives of the Minangkabau indigenous people in Tiga Luhak, and their integration into sustainable development and strengthening of human resources.   Methods: This research uses a qualitative approach with an ethnographic method based on the Post-Positivism paradigm of Interpretive Phenomenology, a holistic study, searching for the essence, and implicating moral values in observation, analysis and making conclusions regarding the disclosure of social facts of the Minangkabau indigenous people.   Results: In line with the global issue of sustainability in the Sustainable Development Goals program where the mandate is to preserve the Culture of Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Peoples of an area, this research becomes important when changes have impacted shifting indigenous cultural values in indigenous peoples. The construction of indigenous knowledge and Minangkabau cultural values has been used and developed for a long time in the social structure of their society. Minangkabau custom contains values and knowledge, something that is original and inherent as a worldview and outlook on life. Minangkabau's original cultural values and knowledge are inherited and become clothing in the daily order of indigenous peoples. The concept of Surau and Silek became the starting point for the development of science. It became the center for studying an in-depth understanding of the natural surroundings which has inherited the wisdom, reason and local wisdom of the Minangkabau people. Minangkabau indigenous cultural values and knowledge have become social and intellectual capital in developing and strengthening human resources.   Conclusions: Minangkabau customs and culture are a construction of a series of values, beliefs, knowledge, local wisdom and collective agreements based on the concept of Minangkabau scientific studies, namely epistemology which departs from an understanding of the philosophy of Alam Takambang Jadi Guru. Traditional and cultural values are the foundation in the construction of knowledge in Minangkabau, and these values are the guidelines and way of life for the community. Minangkabau cultural values and indigenous knowledge which have been the basis for the Minang people's life goal.