Poso In Sintuwu Maroso

Local wisdom is often interpreted as local policy, local knowledge or local intelligence. Local wisdom itself is a view of life and knowledge as well as various life strategies carried out by local communities to answer various problems in fulfilling the needs of the community. Local wisdom also specifically related to a particular culture and reflects the way of life of a particular society.

Poso is a regency with noble cultural values that unite lands of Poso, while other people recognize Poso as a red zone of terrorism, land of conflict among religions, many cases of murder even when it comes to ideological conflict, it also played role in it. So in Poso, there has been an attempt to unite nationalist group into political forum to dispel primordial movements that could disrupt Indonesian pluralism and unity. Whatever the argument, the violence that brought the death of many people, including innocent people cannot be allowed.

Poso has one customary value, called ‘Sintuwu Maroso’ which comes from two words, ‘Sintuwu’ which means fellowship, unity, simplicity and ‘Maroso’ which means strong. So, if both are combined, they become a strong life community, where the life of the people is colored by harmony and tolerance.

Besides that, there is something interesting behind the philosophy of life among 'to Poso' (people of Poso) in Pamona local language, the word of 'Poso' in Indonesian means ‘broken out’, certainly it is contrast with the value upheld by people of Poso. It can be concluded that even though Poso faced intolerance issue, the people of Poso still keep the values of Sintuwu Maroso which mean, Tuwu Mombetuwunaka (respectful living), Tuwu Mombepatuwu (having mutual living) and Tuwu Mombesungko (giving help each other).

Actually people of Poso are not a society that is closed with tolerance because Sintuwu Maroso that unite the people’s lives remain peaceful and healthy. This is the dream of the entire Poso society from the past until now. (FAT).