Abstract:
Indonesia has so many varieties of tribes, culture, and belief. Beliefs in Indonesia are not only the major religions such as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other major religions. Indonesia also has local traditional beliefs that already exist before the other major religions came along in Indonesia. Sunda Wiwitan is one of local belief that still exists until now. But as time goes by, the existence of Sunda Wiwitan is threatened. The lack of recognition from the government that make Sunda Wiwitan is easy experience criminalization. And The purpose of this study is the researcher will explore more about how is the local government recognition to Sunda Wiwitan believers and what is the implication of the government recognition to Sunda Wiwitan believers.. The researcher will approach ethnography in this research to understand on how government recognition and the implications to Sunda Wiwitan believers. The researcher hopes this research will give better understanding about traditional local belief, Sunda Wiwitan. Later on, the result of this research will use as a fundamental to create a documentary film.
