Equipment system of "Bepapas" tradition in Melayu Sambas community, west Kalimantan: Meaning and relevance to national defense attitudes.

There has been much research on the Bebepapas tradition in the people of Kalimantan, but research has yet to be done that specifically explores the meaning of the equipment and its relevance to the attitude of defending the State. This article aims to describe the sense of equipment and its relevance to the perspective of protecting the State in the Bepapas tradition carried out by the people of Kalimantan. The method used is ethnography with Roland Barthes's theory of Semiotics. The research findings show that the equipment in the Bebepas tradition has a profound meaning in denotative, connotative, and mythical terms. The equipment in the Bepapas tradition symbolizes self-strength or might, benefit for others, cleanliness of intentions and hearts, struggle, patience, introspection, and love. This meaning is also very relevant to various attitudes to defend the country, namely in the form of obedience to God, cooperation, caring for others, caring for the natural environment, and hard work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]