1 The Concept of Panutan in Governance Festival Lima Gunung in Magelang Central Java Indonesia Joko Aswoyo1, Sularso Sularso2 1Faculty of Performing Arts, Institut Seni Indonesia Surakarta, Indonesia 2Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan Yogyakarta, Indonesia Submitted: February 7, 2020. Revised: April 9, 2020. Accepted: June 4, 2020 Abstract This research is based on fieldwork at a Five Mountain Festival held in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. This festival presents performing arts in the regions of Mount Merapi, Merbabu, An- dong, Menoreh, and Mount Sumbing. This study intends to explain the concept of panutan in festival governance. Modeling is a significant factor in keeping the Five Mountain Festival alive and sustainable. This study suspects that panutan are one of the guardians of the existence of the Five Mountain Festival. Issues discussed are related to how the panutan concept works, as well as knowing how the implications resulting from the use of the panutan concept in festival govern- ance systems. This study uses qualitative methods with analytical descriptive analysis. Research data were collected through literature studies, documentation studies, interviews, and field ob- servations. The results showed that panutan as organic intellectuals not only created new forms and processes of festival governance but also resulted in the achievement of the advancement of village culture. Keywords: Festival; Governance; Lima Gunung Community; Mountain Culture; Panutan How to Cite: Aswoyo, J., & Sularso, S. (2020). The Concept of Panutan in Governance Festival Lima Gunung in Magelang Central Java Indonesia. Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research And Education, 20(1), 1-9 Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education 20 (1) (2020), 1-9 Available online at http://journal.unnes.ac.id/nju/index.php/harmonia DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/harmonia.v20i1.24818 lived on the slopes of the five mountains (Merapi, Merbabu, Sumbing, Andong, and Menoreh Mountains) as a mountain cultu- ral reality that has existed for hundreds of years ago (Irianto, 2016). This study says if the celebration is the purest form of a festival in the villages. The purity of the festival is marked by the spirit of mutual cooperation that belongs to the farming community on the slopes of the mountain. Mutual cooperation from the perspective of the festival is also for them as a means of getting to know one another about the arts that exist in each village. This study provi- des a definition of this as an art srawung, namely efforts to establish social relations INTRODUCTION Mountain culture has a variety of folk arts that continue to develop and al- ways live side by side with the communi- ty owners. These various arts performed during joint celebrations, both as ritual and entertainment performance arts (Carr, 2004). We say if the art is a public art which in 1980 has been debated as a significant force in economic and social regeneration, even though it has been stated in the policy of the village government. Still, the results are not really felt by the village art commu- nity (Pollock & Paddison, 2010). In fact, the celebration of traditional village art life has Corresponding author: E-mail: joko.aswoyo@gmail.com p-ISSN 2541-1683|e-ISSN 2541-2426 Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education 20 (1) (2020): 1-92 through art more closely. Strengthening mutual cooperation in the festival, making money is not the only major capital in the organization, but the main capital is the presence of panutan who always maintain the spirit of mutual cooperation as the po- wer of organizing the festival. Panutan me- ans wong sing di-nut or the person who is followed and becomes the main figure in organizing the festival because of its since- rity and sincerity. This festival takes place every year and turns from village to village, from one mountain to another. By the village farmers’ community organizing the festi- val, they called the celebration the Festival Lima Gunung (Five Mountains Festival). Its members include the art community on the slopes of Mount Merapi, Merba- bu, Sumbing, Andong, and the Menoreh Mountains. In organizing the festival, pa- nutan are a significant factor in the success of the festival. This raises the question of how can festival governance run regularly every year without putting money as the main component? How does the panutan concept work within the Festival Lima Gu- nung governance system? These problems are the basis of this research. This study departs from the argument if stable go- vernance in the organization of the Festival Lima Gunung is inseparable from the panu- tan concept. Many anthropologists, ethno- musicologists, and performance art scien- tists have not addressed this issue. Even the literature on the culture of mountain art governance has never revealed and al- luded to the subject of the panutan concept as a source of strength in organizing festi- vals. Nearly the majority of the attention given by scholars, or other researchers, is more towards the approach of modern fes- tival governance , festival governance that integrates with tourism governance (Rod- gers, 2007). Harnish’s study did not provi- de valuable information about the locality as a festival governance system. Whereas Song’s research is more about the issue of satisfaction, and the impact of a festival. Song’s approach is a new integrative. Stu- dies conducted to provide information if the festival can be a capital for sustainab- le tourism. According to Song, it is neces- sary to double-check the influence of the festival on a tourism perspective and how to manage the local community. Accor- ding to Song, local residents are a source of strength of support so that the festival’s goals can be achieved, without their sup- port the festivals cannot survive (Song et al., 2015). Song’s study does look offensive to the locality. Still, it does not address the concept of festival governance based on the more conceptual power of community, as offered in this study. Savinovic investigated the problem of audience members’ motivation, satis- faction, and intention to re-visit ethnic minority cultural festivals. The results of a Savinovic study identified eight main motivational dimensions of a person at- tending an ethnic minority cultural festi- val. These include “community support,” “escape,” “knowledge/education,” “food, wine, and entertainment,” “novelty,” “fa- mily togetherness,” “marketing,” and “socialization.”(Savinovic et al., 2012). Savinovic’s study did not reveal the con- cept of local Governance concepts, alt- hough his opinion of the festival stems from traditional events celebrated in the local community. Still, Savinovic does not explain more deeply what is contained in these localities, Savinovic provides conclu- sions on the impact of the festival, as a tou- rism destination. The topic of the panutan concept is new in this study, so it needs to be revea- led in order to obtain information about how the panutan influence the Governan- ce system of the Festival Lima Gunung. This study considers that panutan (role models) are a typical concept in the Festi- val Lima Gunung governance system. This uniqueness can be seen from the vital role of panutan as a living resource for the five mountain peasant communities, panutan as well as agents. They pay attention to the principles of the locality that live in the five mountainous cultural areas. Conceptually, Figure 1 explains what elements are inter- connected with the panutan concept so that Joko Aswoyo, Sularso Sularso, The Concept of Panutan in Governance Festival Lima ... 3 they can influence the festival’s governan- ce system. Figure 1. Panutan Concepts in Influencing the Festival Lima Gunung Governance Panutan is the reference center of the five mountains farming community when the community carries out artis- tic activities. Panutan understands well the potential of agriculture, art, and ritu- al ceremonies as capital for empowering the mountain culture community. All the mountain cultural activities are united in a series of activities called the Festival Lima Gunung. Panutan is to provide unique in- sights about art, culture, and everything else about the life of art for the five moun- tain farmers community so that festival activities can be maintained for continuity. The concept of this panutan is hardly found in the results of previous studies. The sig- nificance and contribution of this research lead to the discovery of local concepts in the performing arts governance system called panutan. One of the benefits of this research is knowing how the panutan con- cept can have implications for the discove- ry of a community-based arts governance education approach. Through this study, it is also hoped that it can provide stimulants for other researchers to be able to conduct further research on art governance educa- tion based on local concepts. METHOD This study uses an ethnographic ap- proach to the performing arts. This appro- ach requires researchers to build a high sensitivity to what is observed. Resear- chers must have cultural sensitivity and political sensitivity as the principal capital (Bagley & Castro-Salazar, 2012). Political sensitivity is also used in this method to obtain accurate information, whether the marginalization of folk art due to political practices also occurs (Lanjari, 2017). Our methodological approach tries to get an “insider” perspective on performance tex- ts (Paltridge et al., 2012); besides, this ap- proach also continues to work to provide separate data groups, such as the grouping of five mountain artists’ data, networks owned by the five mountains community, and intellectual actor data that provides support for the Lima Gunung community and the five mountains festival. Interpretative data reflectively so that data can be identified rigorously. This stage can help find the novelty and authenticity of the data without changing the substance (Bagley, 2008). This ethno- graphic method is not a requirement but is placed as a soft framework used to see the actual circumstances. This method is used to try out performing arts research (Morton, 2005). As for obtaining data on panutan, the researchers approached active participation, namely by placing themsel- ves as friends and together in art activities organized by the Lima Gunung Communi- ty. The main objective is to strengthen the relationship to be more intimate and hope to enter the socio-cultural area with the aim of obtaining complete data. The effort to be accepted as a friend by the commu- nity members studied is indeed the most important part, as a strategy to be accepted by “insiders”. This study analyzes insiders by pay- ing attention to the culture in which they live. The aim is to get complete informa- tion (Bird, 2011). Individual details high- light the figure of Sutanto Mendut, as a key figure who is used as an influential actor for the five mountains community because it can move the culture of villages in the five mountains community area. An analysis of Sutanto Mendut’s self is then Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education 20 (1) (2020): 1-94 linked to the life of the village tradition, which still holds the tradition tightly if the intelligent, influential, and broad-minded person must be respected and put as the central figure to set an example. At this stage, the panutan concept was thoroughly analyzed until it was revealed how much influence it had on the five-mountain festi- val management system. RESULT AND DISCUSSION The Lima Gunung Communities The art life around the slopes of Mount Merapi, Merbabu, Andong, Sum- bing, and Menoreh has quite a good ecosystem of arts. This is due to almost the same art function, namely, as a villa- ge ritual ceremony (Permana et al., 2017). This background is one of the reasons why the mountain art network can be formed so well. It can be interpreted if commu- nity empowerment through the artistic movement is quite strategic. This is based on the awareness that art is an entry point for overall community participation (Sar- du et al., 2012). On the cultural side, col- lective knowledge and the same feelings as village farmers who live on the slopes of the mountain is an embryo for the for- mation of the five mountains community. This community is a milestone in the birth of an activity known as the Festival Lima Gunung, which is an annual festival that is held continuously and moves from one village to another, and from one mountain to another. Lima Gunung Community, from the beginning, did not have a compl ete or- ganizational structure like other social community organizations. The position of chairman in the community structure is only a structural symbol of the organi- zation. The reality in activities organized by the community, almost all put forward an equal attitude. The values carried from each hamlet remain upheld without nega- ting the values possessed by other ham- lets. They have the same degree so that they help each other in realizing their sha- red ideals and goals in art. The tradition of managing the community by making the value of togetherness a binding, causes the chairman’s role to be less significant. Even in the extreme, without a chairman, the Lima Gunung Community art activities can continue. In Figure 2, there is a discussion situation conducted by members of the Lima Gunung community. Figure 2. Discussion Between Members of the Lima Gunung Community The formation of the five mountains community was carried out informally, with no special meeting planned. The ba- sis used is the strength of the intercommu- nication between farmers and the mainte- nance of a network of cross-hamlets in the five mountain regions. It was not stated by those who were the critical initiators in the formation of this community. The basis of strength in the structure of the five mountains community is the spirit of brotherhood, love, and intimacy among all members of the five mountains communi- ty. Familiarity is the main foundation in building harmony among the five moun- tain communities. Peace in the five moun- tains community is bound by visiting each other activities by displaying art in every village ritual ceremony. The routine of the event continues every year, until finally the event is in the spotlight of the mass media, and becomes their news material. The mass media reporting on the activities of the Lima Gunung Community art activities by the mass media made the farmers increasingly aware of how impor- tant the existence of the community was to their survival. This makes them strengthen Joko Aswoyo, Sularso Sularso, The Concept of Panutan in Governance Festival Lima ... 5 the spirit of collectivity so that the wider community can recognize. The popularity of the five mountains community which received the spotlight from the mass me- dia is inseparable from the role of Sutanto Mendut. Sutanto Mendut never stopped introducing farmers, and art to journalists as one of its networks. The actor of Sutanto Mendut is quite essential here so that the five mountains community is considered as a panutan; thus it is necessary to know more about who Sutanto Mendut is and how the role that Sutanto Mendut has for the Five Mountains Community as a pa- nutan and how Sutanto Mendut influen- ces the Five Festival governance system Mountain. This issue will be discussed la- ter in this study. Sutanto Mendut and Mountain Culture Sutanto Mendut was previously a teacher. Since he was young, he had a par- ticular interest in village life on the moun- tain slopes. Sutanto Mendut obtained in- formation about the life of the village art community on the slopes of the mountain through his students. At the age of 26 yea- rs, Sutanto Mendut often kluyuran (play- ing somewhere, from the beginning wit- hout specifying a destination) in and out of villages in the Merapi, Merbabu, Sum- bing, Andong, and Menoreh mountains. Sutanto Mendut was interested and con- tinued to fade even though he felt like he was lost, Sutanto Mendut never resigned. Instead, he also felt more engrossed, hap- py, sénéng, and made fame a lifestyle. In Figure 3, is Sutanto Mendut’s figure. Figure 3. Sutanto Mendut After marriage, Sutanto Mendut, with his wife, still chose to live in the vil- lage. This decision made Sutanto Mendut closer to village culture and able to under- stand the various types of village culture, such as traditional ceremonies, arts, to vil- lage myths thoroughly. Sutanto Mendut’s experience in recognizing village culture and Sutanto Mendut’s ability to contribute thoughts to the village community were highly appreciated and recognized by many parties. In 2009 Sutanto Mendut was awarded along with the 22nd anniversary of the Aesthetic Science and Technology Foundation (SET) at Taman Ismail Mar- zuki. The award was given by the leaders of Science, Aesthetics, and Technology (SET) as well as film director Garin Nug- raha because Sutanto Mendut’s persisten- ce empowered villagers in the arts in the five mountain regions. Garin Nugroho, if positioned like Suntanto Mendut, will not be able to do what Sutanto Mendut did. For Garin Nugroho, this country needs many role models to develop community participation in the arts without becoming a project. Then, in 2014 Sutanto Mendut was awarded the Cultural Award and the Maestro Art Tradition Award in 2014, af- ter that in 2016, Sutanto Mendut received an award from the Gus Dur Award for his services in empowering the community and arts in the five mountain villages. Betah and seneng (comfortable and happy or happy) are Sutanto Mendut’s principal capital in living life together with village art. Sutanto Mendut found many village arts that had local insights and knowledge. Sutanto Mendut obtained the experience through the process of con- templation of human beings, trees, water, rocks, and the natural environment of the mountains. The whole element that Sutan- to Mendut reflected was a representation of local knowledge that has historically been embedded for thousands of years. By Sutanto Mendut, the encyclopedias of mountain cultural knowledge were st- rengthened again. Sutanto Mendut indirectly invento- ries various types of arts and knowledge Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education 20 (1) (2020): 1-96 that live in the life of the five mountains community. The art is used for entertain- ment and traditional ceremonies in the village. In a series of traditional village ce- remonies that have been passed on for ge- nerations, art has always had an important position, so that this tradition makes the mountain culture can continue to survive well (Yampolsky, 2001). Sutanto Mendut gave a view if the life of hamlet art had actually grown and developed hundreds of years ago before the government rol- led out the concept of conservation. This shows that the Dusun community already has a model of caring for art in its own way and method. Sutanto Mendut also made the villa- ge an art laboratory. He nurtures, develops, and experiments with farmers and collea- gues or networks. Sutanto Mendut became an essential figure for all members of the five mountains community to conduct ex- ploration, research, and tracking and for- mulate cultural strategies on the slopes of the five mountains in the future. Seeing this, the hamlet became an organic libra- ry and became a workshop in the arts. The practice of artistic life and the way of sur- vival of the hamlet community in preser- ving their traditions have inspired Sutanto Mendut to give birth to an event called the Five Mountains Festival. The community also actively participates in supporting the five mountain festivals from year to year. The governance of the five-mountain fes- tival and Sutanto Mendut as panutan have become essential topics in this study, so they need to be heard. The question is on what basis the community voluntarily be- came the main subject in organizing the five mountain festival, and in particular, this study put forward the notion that the panutan concept is one of the sources of st- rength in formulating the governance of the five mountain festival. Panutan and Governance Five Mountain Festival For decades Sutanto Mendut has li- ved with village communities on the slo- pes of five mountains. Sutanto Mendut was also actively involved and directly in- volved in the empowerment of the arts in the five peaks. As a result, Sutanto Mendut was trusted by the villagers. Evidence that can be enjoyed by residents of the hamlet of trust given to Sutanto Mendut is the recog- nition of the hamlets on the slopes of five mountains by the wider community. This is thanks to the network owned by Sutanto Mendut. We can see how the role of Garin Nugraha, and Catharine Kati Basset (direc- tor from France) as Sutanto Mendut’s net- work that involved the villagers in the pro- gram they organized. Garin Nugraha, for example, in the film “Opera Java,” almost entirely included the residents of Gejayan Hamlet, Banyusidi, Gunung Merbabu in its film production. Catharine Kati Basset (director from France), also included the Ngisor hamlet community as the perfor- ming cast. Catharine made a work whose idea for the show was inspired by William Shakespeare, entitled “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The story was composed in the hamlet version with the title Impen Sewengi Ing Merapi (Dream Overnight at Merapi). The actor of Sutanto Mendut in invol- ving his network for the benefit of villages in five mountains makes the villagers feel happy, because they have received outside attention. They call this feeling happy with the term remen, rumangsa disapa, digatekake (happy, feel greeted, and get attention). Li- kewise, the mass media that are part of the Sutanto Mendut network. Media crews get news sources, and can even get to know mountain culture. This can be seen from their involvement in certain events, as shown in Figure 4, a photo exhibition of a five-mountain community show. Sutanto Mendut’s network has a significant role to play in the creativity of the five mountains community. Villagers increasingly have a good trust in Sutanto Mendut, making Sutanto Mendut a panu- tan. Panutan is an actual personal figure, someone who is not only involved and shapes activities, but panutan must have a broad view of the life force of mountain communities. The ability to express ide- Joko Aswoyo, Sularso Sularso, The Concept of Panutan in Governance Festival Lima ... 7 as to produce creativity to encourage the vitality of the mountain community be- comes an elemental force. Panutan are role models used by the community as a sour- ce of reference in creating works. Panutan contains life value, in the role model profi- le is attached to expertise, or the mountain community needs people who have speci- fic knowledge and the figure. As a panutan, Sutanto Mendut can present himself, both physically, emotionally, socially, and cul- turally in the middle of the five mountains community. The panutan have sufficient experience and ability to understand the village community, such as understanding various kinds of knowledge, potential, and uniqueness of the hamlets, each hamlet, is different. This experience is enough as ca- pital for the community to encourage them to organize a five mountain festival. Figure 4. Photo Exhibition by Cultural Jour- nalists Panutan must understand the con- cept of sustainability of a festival. The pa- nutan competency that must be possessed is the ability to communicate or exchange ideas with various parties involved in or- ganizing the festival and to have creati- ve thoughts that are full of new ideas. In terms of character, someone who is charis- matic and puts forward a cultural mission is very suitable to be a panutan. Panutan in Five Mountain Festival governance plays a vital role in opening social networks ca- pable of providing festival support. This support is in the form of show participa- tion and participation as an art connois- seur. By presenting participants and art connoisseurs, efforts to foster the trust and pride of farmers for their artistic activities are formed. The role of panutan is vital in the de- sign of the festival. The panutan provides awareness if the togetherness and emotio- nal ties between Lima Gunung Community members are the main capital of the festi- val so that the issue of the cost of organi- zing festival production is not placed as the main problem. The funding and com- mittee are fully delegated to the organizer, especially the Lima Gunung Community members. Sutanto Mendut, as a panutan, conveyed the idea that the festival of the five mountains can take place sustainably because of a long love affair. According to Sutanto Mendut, this festival happened because of a spirit that was cohesed by fa- miliarity with the community. The explanation shows that panutan provides space for organizers to get free- dom in preparing for the festival. In anot- her context, panutan does not devote much energy to the decision making phase. If the concept of modern performance manage- ment is very considerate aspects of finan- cial and human resources, but at the Five Mountain Festival, such considerations are not needed. All members of the Lima Gu- nung Community have a paradigm if the show can definitely continue or “the show must go on”. This means that even though financial resources are not available, this does not matter, and does not affect the organization of the festival. Panutan has given strength in the form of confidence if the social capital of the five mountains community has been freely available as the main capital for organizing the festival. Gotong-royong (mutual values) that are still attached to rural communities are the most important social capital. Panutan thus has a strong influence on the festival’s governance system, this shows that panutan are the main drivers of the process of forming, growing, and de- veloping the vitality of the Lima Gunung Community. The panutan is so influential in shaping the concept of independence of the festival’s governance system because the community still has a stronghold on traditional village traditions and ethics. Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education 20 (1) (2020): 1-98 They are very respectful and give gre- at appreciation to community leaders, or smart people who have an important role in traditional life. The village community has a belief that panutan is believed to be the basic mediators in reviving the power of tradition. A panutan is an individual or organic intellectual who understands the various problems of a village community due to emotional or ‘heart’ involvement. CONCLUSIONS The panutan as organic intellectuals are not only creating new forms and pro- cesses of festival management but more about achieving village cultural progress. 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