Another Subak Description

Subak is a traditional organization with unique cohesive and coercive binding power at different level of hierarchy. An ethnomethodological approach was employed in an attempt to understand the Balinese subak organization. Regencies of Gianyar and Tabanan were selected as the study area. The objectives of this research are to recognize institutional elements of the subak and to describe the socio-institutional related variables within the organization. The expected outcomes of the activity are: 1) institutional characteristics of the Balinese subak, including technosocial characteristics and management style, 2) cohesion power and pattern of the subak among its members, and 3) logical interpretation of indexical expressions used in relation to subak?s routine operation. For the purpose of this study, collection and analysis of indexical expressions, conversational analysis and observation, and analysis on nonverbal interaction were employed through the implementation of ethnomethodology. This paper describes subak's socio-religious existence, management style and cohesion power highlighting the community?s indexical expressions and their relation with farmer?s actual acts in the respective agro-socio-ecosystems.