TY - GEN
T1 - The Potential of Using Indonesian Wisdom of “Betah” as an Easier Substitute for Place Attachment in Architectural and Urban Research
AU - Nazaruddin, Farid
AU - Setijanti, Purwanita
AU - Hayati, Arina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Sustainable environment policy requires community acceptance and support for its success. Place attachment plays a crucial role in those acts. Place attachment theory has been debated for more than five-decades and has been developed in the Indonesian context both for urban and architecture research studies. Several Indonesian researchers associated place attachment with the concept of Betah. As a word in Bahasa Indonesia, Betah is one of the common expressions of and the substitute for place attachment. However, no clear scientific article reviews using Betah as a substitute for place attachment. This paper is an overview of how the word Betah is discussed in place attachment research and what is the use of the word for future discussion on place-related research. Reviews on research papers and scientific writing reveal that place attachment lacked consentience and hindered the unification process of the theory thus creating confusion on its conception. This is because the use of the word Betah in Indonesian culture has the same purpose as place attachment, which is the positive bonding or attachment to a specific place. Also, Betah and place attachment are mostly similar in meaning, a prerequisite condition for its use, its constructs, and its factors. Therefore, using Betah can help simplify the complex quantitative research on place attachment. Betah can also expedite qualitative research on place attachment. Overall, Betah has the potential to facilitate research on place attachment. Yet, there are limitations to using it, which are the context of the research area and language use.
AB - Sustainable environment policy requires community acceptance and support for its success. Place attachment plays a crucial role in those acts. Place attachment theory has been debated for more than five-decades and has been developed in the Indonesian context both for urban and architecture research studies. Several Indonesian researchers associated place attachment with the concept of Betah. As a word in Bahasa Indonesia, Betah is one of the common expressions of and the substitute for place attachment. However, no clear scientific article reviews using Betah as a substitute for place attachment. This paper is an overview of how the word Betah is discussed in place attachment research and what is the use of the word for future discussion on place-related research. Reviews on research papers and scientific writing reveal that place attachment lacked consentience and hindered the unification process of the theory thus creating confusion on its conception. This is because the use of the word Betah in Indonesian culture has the same purpose as place attachment, which is the positive bonding or attachment to a specific place. Also, Betah and place attachment are mostly similar in meaning, a prerequisite condition for its use, its constructs, and its factors. Therefore, using Betah can help simplify the complex quantitative research on place attachment. Betah can also expedite qualitative research on place attachment. Overall, Betah has the potential to facilitate research on place attachment. Yet, there are limitations to using it, which are the context of the research area and language use.
KW - Betah
KW - Consentience
KW - Local wisdom
KW - Place attachment
KW - Substitute
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-1403-6_14
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-1403-6_14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85164915243
SN - 9789819914029
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 179
EP - 191
BT - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Indonesian Architecture and Planning (ICIAP 2022) - Beyond Sustainability Through Design, Planning and Innovation
A2 - Swasto, Deva Fosterharoldas
A2 - Rahmi, Dwita Hadi
A2 - Rahmawati, Yani
A2 - Hidayati, Isti
A2 - Al-Faraby, Jimly
A2 - Widita, Alyas
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 6th International Conference on Indonesian Architecture and Planning, ICIAP 2022
Y2 - 13 October 2022 through 14 October 2022
ER -