Kejayaan Rempah Dari Pulau Kei Raha: Pandangan Etnohistori

Abstract

This study discusses the lives of local people who are tied to the historical memory of biological wealth in the Maluku Islands. The world's dependence on spices since pre-colonial times has created many events. Not a few conflicts and cultural mobility that occurred when the spice was at its peak. The wealth of spices in Maluku has opened the world's eyes to other aspects in Indonesia such as social, cultural, political and other natural products. Mareku Village, which is located on Tidore Island, is one of the areas that is very involved in the historical record of the arrival of Europeans to the Maluku Islands in search of spices. This paper will present ideas and ideas about the past of the people in Mareku Village which have been reconstructed into culture through memory about their historical historical values. In more detailed conceptual terms, it is called ethnohistory. The attitudes of solidarity, tolerance, nationalism, traditional values of the sultanate, and devout Islam that are currently displayed cannot be separated from the historical values of spices that occurred in their land. Because whatever historical events that have occurred in their area is very strongly related to the existence of abundant spice commodities. Through historical relics that are still preserved today, the people of Mareku have believed this as the basis for their current attitudes and behavior