Makna Sakral Ondel-Ondel pada Generasi Betawi (Studi Kasus Pengamen Ondel-Ondel di Jalan Cempaka Putih Raya, Jakarta Pusat)

Abstract

Ondel-ondel buskers are increasing day by day, specifically in Cempaka Putih Raya Street, Central Jakarta. This locations is one of the busiest culinary areas and is known to be a strategic area for buskers to lead their Ondel-ondels, not all visitors on Cempaka Putih Raya Street come from a Betawi cultural background or from Jakarta. This phenomenon is a concern for the researcher, especially in the shifting of the Ondel-ondel’s interpretation. This study aims to determine the shift in the interpretation of Ondel-ondel’s sacrality in the Original Betawi and Mixed Betawi generation. The researcher conducted a semi-structured interview with four informants, consisting of Original Betawi people and Mixed Betawi people. This type of research is comparative descriptive, the researcher made comparations from the answers of four informants. The result show that there was a shift in Ondel-ondel’s sacred image obtained from testing the perception of informants. The results show that Ondel-ondel’s meaning has experienced a modification in interpretation. The modification that occurred is the shift from sacrality into commodity due to the Ondel-ondel busker phenomenon.