Implementation of Education Toward Orang Rimba Perception at Pandemic Words in The Linguistics Landscape Diana Rozelin, Mailinar, Ulfatmi Azlan
UIN Sulthan Thaha Saifuddin jambi
Abstract
During Covid-19 pandemic, some terms appear to represent the corona virus. For some people Covid-19 terms were familiar but not for others such as Orang Rimba (OR). Some terms were weird and new because it was pronounced in English language such as ^social distancing^, ^rapid test^, and ^lockdown^. For OR, they got difficulties to understand about these terms but if those words were translated into their language the concept of these terms was not new such as isoman because in their local wisdom they had their own term and way to isolate their members in one place and far from their village. The purpose was to prevent the contagious of the disease. Meanwhile, the role of the government in this case BKSDA was very important to stop the spread of this virus within OR community it was supported by their nomadic lifestyle because the supervision of OR was under this board. The purposes of this research were: 1) to find out the government^s role through BKSDA in educating OR about Covid-19 terms and its preventing actions- 2) to find out the perception of OR toward the words of Covid-19. This research was conducted in qualitative, the technique for collecting the data were observation, interview, documentation, and recording, meanwhile for analyzing the data used descriptive technique. The results were: 1) BKSDA office visited each OR group, gave directions and examples on how to wash hands, wear masks, keep distance, and keep the environment clean. 2) from 15 vocabulary words that related to Covid-19 pandemic, only 5 words were known by OR. It was mask, virus, washing hand, sanitizer, and corona. The word mask according to OR was a fabric for covering the nose and mouth. The meaning of virus and corona were evil animal. The word washing hand means besuh tangon/ cuci tangon. The meaning of sanitizer was ubat.
Keywords: Education, Orang Rimba, Semantics, Sociolinguistics
