Thirteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Wong Pinter is one of the traditional healers in Java characterized by the ability to heal or help to solve life problems, not asking for rewards, doing ascetic steps, avoiding bad deeds, and being a role model in society. The results of previous studies show data that found only one female wong pinter among nearly forty wong pinters have been studied. Thus it is interesting to study, why the number of female wong pinters is very little compared to the number of male wong pinters. This study explores why this happened. The research method is done by literature review, by tracing Javanese concepts of women. Analysis is done by connecting the findings about the reasons a a person becomes a wong pinter and the activities undertaken, taking into consideration the Javanese concepts of woman. One of the reasons there are so few women in this role is that becoming a wong pinter requires doing a lot of ascetic steps and activities, including in the implementation of “tetulung” (helping), which are not possible requirements for most Javanese women based on the basic provisions of Javanese ethics regarding the position and ideal of women.