Pembentukan Lanskap Permukiman Perdesaan Berbasis Padepokan Bernuansa Islam di Desa Majasto
Abstract
The process of the uniquely rural-historical settlement landscape forming is the knowledge
resources must be inquiry. Majasto village is the one from many rural settlement with that
characteristic. Through this inquiry we hope the objective research can be explore, that is to
understanding the landscape settlement forming process of Majasto, primary in: (1) Positioning
the Kraton Paguron Majasto in time and Islamic – Javanese Kingdom historical contect; (2)
The growth of the settlement function from early birth until now; and (3) The influent factors of
settlement landscape characteristic forming in contemporary context. After observation and text
analysis the peopple stories (mith and legend) used the content analysis method, found 3 the
conclusion that are: (1) The early of the Majasto settlement have the education function
(Islamic - Javanese boarding = padepokan) in Kraton Paguron Majasto institution, birth
suround 1475, growth in Demak era and stay exis in Pajang era; (2) The settlement growth
influent by: (a) Location linkage with the surounding; (b) External personal factor (Sunan
Kalijaga) and internal personal factor (Ki Ageng Majasto) booth of them have the high power
to influent the foundamentaly and specific public policies (to build the center of education/
Islamic – Javanese boarding in Majasto; and (c) The first, Majasto is the education function in
mainly, and then develope and growth become the settlement area. The last (thirth), in
contemporary context, landscape pattern forming by intangible aspect that is visit in the grave
tradition (ziarah).