Fading Bari and Institutional Mabari (Studies in Community Peasant Coconut Two Villages in West Halmahera District).

Abstract

Bari as social values that basis mabari institution as a social process in the form of cooperation activities among rural residents is known in the West Halmahera District. However, due to development or modernization process that followed by introduction of technology, information, organization of government bureaucracy and capital to the rural community diminish and weaken the mabari institution. By using qualitative method, this research describe the development and changes in mabari institution as community institutional cooperation in two villages in the district or village in Sahu sub-district, West Halmahera District. Results of this research show that bari as the social value basis of mabari institution was fading but still become the social life order in most community, especially in the coconut plantation community. Although, the intensity of binding strength and institutionalization of various bari and mabari between villages. Recently, Bari and mabari was found in the community context of social development was linked to the historical roots and village or kampong culture. Research also found the impact of development on agricultural institution that related to bari and mabari in the two villages research. Dynamics element change also found that bari and mabari value still have a big advantages in community. There is also a symptoms that villages whose have adat leader can better maintain bari and mabari. Research result also found that mabari social cooperation still hooked up with various aspects of development, ranging from social oversight for the maintenance of social solidarity, setting up market of agriculture products, until controlling access of natural resources. The role of village government can be enhanced by the existence of mabari. Therefore, mabari still potentially be a social process which brought all parties that needs to be preserved and re-utilized in the lives of rural communities in West Halmahera Regency .