Perayaan Cap Go Meh bagi masyarakat di Kota Tegal

UMMAH, Khaerul, Prof.Dr. Lasiyo, MA.,MM

2006 | Tesis | S2 Ilmu Perbandingan Agama

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahqi sikap dan peran masyarakat kota Tegal baik mereka yang beretnis Tionghoa maupun non Tionghca. Hal ini disebabkan realitas perayaan Cap GO Meh di kota Tegal yang diramaikan olen etnis Tionghoa,dan juga melibatkan masyarakat non Tionghoa meskipun mereka bukanlah penganut kepercayaan tradisional cina. Penelitian lapangan ini dilakukan pada saat perayaan Cap Go Meh tahun 2006 yang diselenggarakan oleh kelenteng Tek Hay Kiong di kota Tegal. Pengambilari data dilakukan dengan melibatkan diri secara langsung dalam perayaan dan wawancara mendalam dengan nara sumber. Selain itu, data literer juga digunakan untuk menunjang analisis, karena data ini dianalisis dengan analisis deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa perayaan Cap Go Meh di kota Tegal tidak dirayakan oleh semua etnis Tionghoa di kota Tegal dengan alasan telah berpindahnya kepercayaan. Sedangkan mereka yaag merayakan memiliki alasan bahwa meskipun telah memiliki agania formal sebagai identitas, mereka masih mempercayai kepercayaan nenek moyang mereka. Masyarakat non Tionghoa di kota Tegal memiliki peran clan sikap yang berbeda yaitu, mereka yang melibatican diri hanya sebagai penoiiton, sebagai tega pembantu yang mendapatkan upah, dan mereka yang memepercayai sebagian ritual yang dijaiankan dalam perayaan tersebut.

T his research has a title “P erayaan C ap G o M eh B agi M asyarakat d i Kota T egal” (C ap G o M eh C elebration for peoples in T egal). C ap G o M eh is one of many chinese celebrations that celebrated in Tegal. This is an interesting issue because chinese existence in Indonesia. They got different political policies in three decades on existence issue if it based on Chinese political history in Indonesia. Goals of this research are to know chinese attitude toward that celebration and non-chinese role to that celebration. To achieve those goals, the author takes various steps. The author collects the data in field by involving in Cap Go Meh celebration to get drawing and knowledge of celebration directly and hollistically.Further more, the author also collects the data from some peoples with their own expectation by doing interview to get deep information about the celebration.Secondary data can be collected by library studying focused on not only about traditional chinese phylosophy and religion but chinese existence history in Indonesia also. Descriptive analysis process used in this research. The result of this research stated that not all of chinese in Tegal have the same attitude to Cap Go Meh celebration. They divided in two groups. First, they still celebrate Cap Go Meh because the celebration is still important for them related to their own ancestor religion and today they still believe it.This group looks different enthusiastic between young and old generation. Old generations focus and enthusiastic on ritual side and young generations focus and enthusiastic on celebration side. The second group is Chinese those are not celebrate Cap Go Meh. In this group, they have two attitudes; they are not celebrate Cap Go Meh absolutely because they have new religion and don’t w ant to m ix their faith today with their ancestor religion, and they are not celebrate Cap Go Meh but accord this as their own ancestor culture which is important to maintain it. Non- Chinese community in Tegal have three roles in this celebration. First, they whose enjoy this celebration as spectator. Second, they whose help and get fee in celebration process. Third, they whose believe part of Chinese traditional religion and take part in ritual side of this celebration.

Kata Kunci : Cap Go Meh,Masyarakat Non Tionghoa, Cap Go Meh Celebration, Chinese, Non-chinese community