摘要:Jakarta is inhabited by people formed from a melting plot process, namely the
mixing of various ethnicities and regions, both from within and outside Indonesia.
From the melting-plot process, the position of the Betawi people changed to a new
identity called the Betawi tribe or the Betawi people. This aim of study is to describe
the structure, function, and inheritance system of the gambang rancag about the
story of Pitung, Angkri, and Conat oral tradition in the Betawi community. This
study was conducted in four areas of DKI Jakartaand another area in West Java,
namely Depok. The choice of location was based on the reasons that these areas
were objectively the population bases of the Betawi community. Data collection was
conducted by observation, interview, and documentation. Data analysis was carried
out using the interdisciplinary approach, structural theory in Abrams and G. L. Koster
Malay poetry, Albert Lord’s formula theory, and inheritance system and functions by
Alan Dundes and Teeuw. The results of this study are as follows. First, describing
the existence of communication between the creator, the text, the audience, and the
community can be considered through the text structure of (1) the flow scheme, (2)
the theme, and (3) the character’s actions. Second, the functions were (1) affirmation
function, (2) negation function, and (3) restoration function. Third, the inheritance
systemincludes: (1) giving the model, (2) modeling the model, and (3) showing the
model.
关键词:oral tradition; gambang rancag; structure; function; inheritance; Betawi
community