City Strunggle: Rural and Urban Cultural Space in Bali In the Modern Indonesian Poetry of the 1960s—2012

Abstract

This research is based on the space discourse that represents the city
and its environment in modern Indonesian literature in Bali in the
1960s—2012. City and Bali are presented as a setting of events through
space that shows the city as a social configuration of its people. The
research problem formulation is (1) rural and urban concepts in the
appearance of tourist cities in Bali and (2) decentering Bali and Bali's
changes in the poems of the 1960s—2012. The data collection of this
research used the library method with note taking technique.
Descriptive analytic analysis is used as a method with critical
interpretive techniques. To analyze the data Derrida's deconstruction
theory was used, specifically decentering the rural and urban cultural
paradigm which places the text as a social construction. The results and
discussion of this research show that, first, poems of Balinese poets
have a tendency not to place cities as spaces as centers of progress, but
cities that show individual awareness in the middle of the city. Second,
decentering Bali is a hierarchical struggle that places rural and urban
culture as a contradiction of urban spatial policy with the efforts of the
community to defend its culture. Therefore, the poems of the 1960s— 2012 about Bali was a battle of discourses that put the binary opposition
to form because of the concept of rural and urban areas.