Strengthening Moral Integrity Using Arjuna Wiwaha's Story A Sociocultural Analysis

Arjuna Wiwaha is a classic Javanese literary work written in the XI century by Mpu Kanwa. The story of Arjuna Wiwaha is a story that tells of Arjuna's journey in exile to Indrakila Cave, to undergo asceticism to ask for instructions and ask God for magic weapons. Overall Arjuna Wiwaha is about the teachings of achieving the perfection of life. This research is a qualitative descriptive using sociology of literature approach. The focus of this research is to describe and explain ways to strengthen moral integrity using the puppet's story Arjuna Wiwaha. The data sources are the text of Arjuna Wiwaha and several informants. Data collection techniques using literature study and in-depth interviews.Some of the data found were then analyzed using interactive techniques, the stages of which were data reduction, data display, and concluding. The triangulation technique was used for data validity. The results of the study can be found in the puppet's story Arjuna Wiwaha there is a representation of strengthening moral integrity. Teachings in Javanese philosophy are explained in the form of literary stories that cover the entire life of Javanese people based on human creativity, taste, and intention. Cipta refers to a logical structure that seeks to obtain the value of truth, rasa refers to an ethical structure that seeks to obtain the value of beauty, and karsa refers to an ethical structure that seeks to obtain the value of goodness. The relationship between humans and culture concerns human behavior which is strengthened by the values of a culture that a binding process occurs between literary, moral, and spiritual elements.