Local Wisdom Values: Human and Nature Relations in the Belu People

Abstract

Environmental problems have become a huge problem in the world level including for Indonesia. This paper is a study of environmental issues midst the development progress in Indonesia. Environmental problems need serious attention in order to preserve nature for the future of human life. Preserving the environment can be pursued by protecting and preserving the environment through serious attention to the values of local wisdom. With a qualitative descriptive approach, the values of local wisdom that support environmental conservation are explored. As a nation that has many regional cultures, Indonesia has a lot of local wisdom values that thrive in every region as a form of harmony dialectic in human and natural relations. The attention of this research is on the ethical values contained in the local wisdom that grows in the Belu people. These values exist in the traditions of Badu (prohibition) and Sau (reap the harvest) and the tradition of weaving cloth. These local wisdom values need to be maintained and developed so that they can become collective awareness in managing nature in realizing sustainable development goals. The values of local wisdom can become actual guidelines in preserving nature.