PERUBAHAN SISTEM KEKERABATAN MATRILINEAL ORANG MINANGKABAU DI DAERAH ISTIMEWA YOGYAKARTA

The practice of adapting Javanese culture by the people from Minangkabau who live in Special Region of Yogyakarta induces a change in their matrilineality kinship system. In this study the Minangese is chosen because the system indicates their ethnic identity. To analyze the system the dissertation focuses on (1) the matrilineality kinship system itself among Minangese in Yogyakarta, and (2) why it shifts in this community. This qualitative research employed anthropology approach to study the issue with negotiation and Muslim feminism theories as the theoretic framework. Data were obtained from observation, in-depth interview, and documentation and were analyzed by reducing, displaying, and concluding methods. The results showed that: first, the previously extended family became nuclear one as it was indicated by the role-shift of mamak (MB) from the sole decision maker in the female-side relatives (SC) to simply a kind of formality. Second, Minangese-Javanese marriage has ruined ideal one existed in the matrilineality kinship. This two-culturedmarriage phenomenon also deprived traditional ceremonies such as giving custom title to male Minangese. Third, gender equality existed in a family from which equality in the rights to work and to take decisions came. Fourth, parent-child communication pattern melted away to be more permissive and less tight and not exclusive anymore. Fifth, traditional ceremonies like music and performances tended to move to new creations. Sixth, a new inheritance system among Minangese in Yogyakarta emerged and tended to comply Javanese culture