The cipuk is a veiles especially of sasak indigeous which is located in Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesian. The cipuk has the shape of square , multicoloured like yellow, red, black, blue, and etc. The cipuk matter is yarn, which made by sasak women using traditional tools called “ sensek”.
The cipuk has unique meaning which can make the people identify, and knows the sasak women status like single, widow, or marriaged, only seeing how the way the sasak women wear the veil without asking them again. The first way is that when the tip of the veil stuck out in front of the ceast which means the women is single. The second way is that when one of the tip of the veil on the shoulder which means the women is widow. And the last way is that when all of the tip of the veil on the shoulder which means the women is was marriage. The cipuk also is as the best a social control for sasak indigous or another people make us easy to identify them. That uniqe meaning must be maintened, socializalized, and preserved by us.
Unfortunately, the young people today is not interest enough with culture, local wisdom, and etc. Their said it out of date, unstyle, primmitif, ancient, tacky, and etc. That as the big homework for us to relize them about how important them to keep, and love the culture, the identity, and the local wisdom as the next generation of this nation.
As a result there are so many reason about cultivating the local wisdom from erasure by modernisation, globalization, kapitalis, and westernitation. Those reasons have relation each other which is cannot be separated, including cipuk as the local wisdom in sasak indigous, especially of sasak woman identity which come from the creativity of cultures based on the highest of religion relize in sasak indigous . In fact, this case explains how important the cultures, and the identity in our life. Because the identity is one of the basic human need, that are determine the social status and character of somebody, include the charactheristic physic or social culture of somebody ( Dr. Hans J. Daeng ).
Furthermore, some related theory underfinning about how important the culture, the identity, and the local wisdom in our life. There are three definition of cultures based on the researcher, Such as; A.L Kroeber and Kluchohn in culture, A Ccritical Review of Concepts and Definition (1952) said culture as a big concept will be clearer if we specify it detailly into shape, and content of the culture. Furthermore culture is divided into three shapes of culture. First is the shape as a complex idea, concept, and human thought called culture system. Second is shape as a complex activity called cocial system Third is shape as noun called physical culture. Meanwhile (Soerjanto Poesporwardojo, 1989; 218-219) said that the culture is all over process and growing result of human from generation to generation for the better human life. On the other side, Ashley Montage said culture is a way of life which radiate a certain identity of a nation.
After all, to defend the culture, and the local wisdom as the identity of nation, and indigous. The role of the goverment, scholar of islam, scholar of customs are very important. First the goverment give the policy about how important to keep the local wisdom minimally with wear the traditional thing once a week, then scholar of islam give suggestion when him speech in front of him community about how important the cultures, and local wisdom as the identity, in order the citizen relize how important it. The last is a scholar of customs must be give the imformation for the citizen more interesting than before.