Philosophical leadership values Sunan Gunung Jati leaderships: Relevance for leadership moral development in Indonesia
List of Authors
  • Bambang Sudaryana , Eman Suryaman

Keyword
  • leadership; Sunan Gunung Jati; construction of ethic and moral nation

Abstract
  • This research is proposed to study and understand more deeply and comprehensively about the philosphy’s values of Sunan Gunung Jati’s leadership, chiefly occurred in his ‘petatah-petitih’. And also, his leadership’s attitude, thereby forming its possibility and its relevance for ethic and moral leadership building in Indonesia recently, for at least it’s able to form a new spirit to construct the future of nation, which has higher moral and dignity. The essence of this research is to understand the characteristic of Sunan Gunung Jati’s leadership, also as a leader of saints, ruler of nation and leader of politic. This research is library research, the points are Sunan Gunung Jati’s leadership values which were written in any ancients’s manuscript and researches that existed before. Related with specific problems to reach philosophical understanding, the researchers conducted various interviews with figures who have capabilities on understanding the figure of Sunan Gunung Jati. In this case, the study involved the officers of Keraton Kasepuhan, Kanoman and Kacirebonan. For reaching comprehensive understanding and clearly, the study used trough analysis philosophical methods with perennial apporoaches. The result of this research is to explain the leadership figure of Sunan Gunung Jati. He was a leader who transcended and immanent. In his hands, they combined between political and spiritual powers. The combination political and spiritual power made him not only capable to control things that were related with spiritual and religious ceremony, but also capable to control things that were related with social and cultural fields, like economy, education, defense and security and public policies as well. This unique capability made him a successful leader, this occured by the construction of two Islamic civilization such as Cirebon and Banten. Most importantly are Sunan Gunung Jati’s leadership system, mostly found stature of models as a wise leader, and also moral messages in form of ‘petatah-petitih’, which is related with moral values and essential philosophy. Thereby those values chiefly formed in four principal teachings, like the teachings of faith and piety, discipline, wisdom, and about ethic. These four teachings besides having universal ethic, also has similarity with Pancasila’s values. Therefore, it is expected to provide strong foundation for Indonesian moral and leadership ethic based on national cultures and local wisdom.

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