Local Wisdom of Sultanate of Buton Governance to Create Democratic Governance of Baubau

Rizki Mustika Suhartono

Abstract: This study aims at: (1) identifying and analyzing the essence of local wisdom in the governance of Sultanate of Buton; (2) analyzing and describing the implementation of local wisdom to create democratic governance of Baubau; (3) analyzing and identifying the challenges in implementing local wisdom in the governance of Sultanate of Buton to create democratic governance of Baubau. This study is a normative research which involved reviewing related literatures or primary, secondary, and tertiary legal resources. Primary legal resources refers to the constitution and related laws. Secondary legal resources refers to description of primary legal resources in the form of literature, journal articles, research paper, or other academic resources. Finally, the tertiary legal resources refer to any description on primary and secondary legal resources in the form of dictionary and encyclopedia. The results of this study indicate that: (1) The nature of the local wisdom of the government of the Buton Sultanate contained in the Sarapatanguna philosophical foundation, (2) The application of local wisdom in realizing regional autonomy in the Baubau City that has accommodated democratic implementation of cultural values towards development, leadership government towards development, values of development in government towards development, (3) constraints in the application of local wisdom in realizing democratic Baubau City government, namely the tendency of materialism, hedonism and induvidualism and liberalism.

Keywords: local wisdom, government, sultanate of Buton, Baubau City