Amid the Interweaving of Migrations, Land Tenure, and Survival Strategies: The Pseudo-Solidarity of Rural Java Farmers

Sebagai entitas sosial terkecil dan relasi berbasis sosial budaya lokal, masyarakat dusun dihadapkan pada kompleksitas dinamika relasi internal. Sodalitas, yang diyakini sebagai ruh hubungan masyarakat dusun, menghadapi tekanan internal dan eksternal. Hal ini disebabkan oleh keterbatasan aksesibilitas sumber daya, pengaruh perilaku migrasi keluar, perubahan kelembagaan, dan penguatan individualisasi penguasaan atas sumber daya lokal. Penelitian ini mengungkap pola solidaritas semu komunitas dusun sebagai semangat baru basis relasi antar warga dusun. Solidaritas semu menjadi strategi kelangsungan hidup masyarakat karena terbatasnya akses dan kendali atas sumber mata pencaharian di sekitarnya, perubahan struktur penduduk akibat migrasi, dan tekanan eksternal berupa perubahan kelembagaan sosial ekonomi. Solidaritas semu adalah pilihan antara menjaga keharmonisan dan memainkan taktik untuk memenuhi kepentingan individu. Anggota masyarakat dusun mengembangkan strategi dan bernegosiasi untuk mencapai tujuan mereka dengan memenuhi kebutuhan ekonomi, sosial, dan budaya mereka. Mereka memanfaatkan sifat hubungan sosial yang luwes dan penuh kepura-puraan serta meningkatkan ambang batas toleransi terhadap dinamika kehidupan yang merugikan mereka. Kondisi ini berdampak signifikan terhadap melemahnya solidaritas masyarakat dusun. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan antropologi untuk pengumpulan data. Beberapa metode tersebut antara lain survei mini, observasi, dan wawancara mendalam. Metode penelusuran kekerabatan dan riwayat hidup digunakan untuk menelusuri proses mobilitas dan migrasi antar generasi, termasuk penguasaan tanah dan sumber daya lainnya.As the smallest social entity with its local forms of socio-cultural relations, each of Indonesia’s hamlet communities today is faced with the complexity of the dynamics of internal relationships. Sodality, believed to be the spirit of these relationships, is facing internal and external pressures. Limited access to resources, behavioral influences from out-migration, institutional changes, and the reinforced individualization of control over local resources make up such pressures. This study reveals the patterns of pseudo-solidarity that serves as a new spirit for the basis of relationships of hamlet residents. Pseudo-solidarity has become a strategy for community survival due to limited access to and control over sources of livelihood, changes in population structure that resulted from migration, and external pressures in the form of changes in socio-economic institutions. It serves as a compromise between maintaining harmony and playing out tactics to fulfill individual interests. Hamlet community members develop strategies and increase their negotiation abilities to meet their economic, social, and cultural needs. Taking advantage of the flexible, pretentious side of social relationships, they also raise their tolerance threshold towards the dynamics of life that are detrimental to them. This condition significantly weakens the solidarity within hamlet communities. This study used an anthropological approach to its data collection. Some of its methods include mini-surveys, observations, and in-depth interviews. Through kinship and biographical tracings, the study tracked the different processes of intergenerational mobility and migrations concerning, among others, land tenure and ownership of other resources