Reflective Dialogue as a Way to Strengthen Community Awareness in the Revitalization Movement Process

An Attempt of Engaged Ethnography

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This paper is the next sequence of ethnography of a movement of the farmer community in Daleman, Java, Indonesia (Cahya, 2011). It specifically described the process of the ethnographic reflective dialog conducted in Daleman community while the revitalization movement was in progress. Although the reflective dialog resulted in some tensions amongst the participants, it succeeded in rebuilding the awareness and the spirit of togetherness of the community. The long and complicated process of reflective dialog enabled the members of Daleman community to develop their awareness to learn from the events they had experienced. This kind of dialog also inspired them to generate and continue the movement they had made. The story in this ethnography gives an important lesson that a reflective dialog plays very important roles in preserving the continuation of the movement of the community revitalization.