PERTAUTAN ANTARA ASPEK INTELEKTUAL DAN MISTIS DALAM NOVEL LANANG KARYA YONATHAN RAHARDJO

Abstract

This study aims to describe the connection between the intellectual and mystical aspects
in Lanang, a novel by Yonathan Rahardjo. It employed the qualitative phenomenological
approach using principles in qualitative content analysis to understand text messages
descriptively. The data sources were Lanang and the results of interviews with the
author. The data comprised the story sequence relevant to the research objectives and
important information obtained from literature review. The findings are as follows. First,
the intellectual aspect stimulates awareness that the technology sophistication is capable
of changing what is impossible into what is possible, such as animal biotechnology
engineering. Second, the mystical aspect originates from beliefs in a local tradition that
may be illogical and full of weirdness but people still believe them.