The Concept of Sompek (Wander) of the Buginese Society in Folklore

Abstract

The Buginese people are known as people who like to wander both in the archipelago and abroad, this is reflected in their literary works. One of the things that describe the life of the Bugi people as migrants can be found in folklore. This paper aims to describe an overview of sompek (wander), passompek (migrants) and sompereng (places to migrate) depicted in folklore. This paper uses library techniques to collect data and is analyzed descriptively qualitatively to describe the data found in folklore. The results of the research indicate that the factors that caused the Buginese community to migrate were, among others, economic factors and social factors. In the story it is also found that the Buginese migrants always create crowds in their place of migrating and they choose the watershed as their destination for overseas. Another thing that characterizes the Buginese people in migrating is that they continue to build the areas they come, maintain their buginese identity.