Is an Orally History a History? Part-1

Is an Orally History a History? Part-1: The Specifying of My History's Research Method

Written by : Yusni Tria Yunda. 

Post's Date: 22-01/2018.

A point that I want to effort in this part is some from my understanding essences about the specifying of my history's research method which I ever use in my script's paper. Something that always be having by peoples is story about their past time. And whenever peoples wrote it with any medias, it potent to being called as: "history". To write something, peoples needing a kind full of medias that can being represent the object and its followers of attributes, such as the verb about what was the object ever done, and in some conditions or any situations as the backgrounds the writer usually adding the verb,- as adverb,- to showing the additional thinks or things of the verb. Therefore, a story,- which got its started from the mind of the past time that ever happened, and then been recited with the major's way to write it, which potent to being "history", just will take on status still as a story,- whenever there wasn't anybody ever read it. It is what I mean with: "potent". In the case if there is somebody ever read or reading the written and he or she can understand a part or all of parts from the writer belong, the story is getting its new status as "a history". This is the think which I'm minding about the difference between the story and the history: the history always have stories, the story has potent to become a history. How the essence about my logical could build its perception to give a judges in some cases about this concepts of a story and a history below;

A. There was a story about the past, there was nobody wrote about it. Is this kind of story can we give status as a history?,

B. There was a story about the past, there was nobody wrote about it, even though the owner of the story ever told about it and somebody heard it from the owner. Is this kind of story can we give status as a history?,

C. There was a story about the past, there was somebody wrote about it, therefore until now there's nobody ever read the written. Is this kind of story can we give status as a history?,

D. There was a story about the past, there was nobody wrote about it, but some peoples knowing what does the story talking about it, and the owner of the story is still a live and he or she could talk to us for recite about it. Is this kind of story can we give status as a history?,

E. There was a story about the past, there was somebody wrote about it, but nobody knowing what does the written talking about. Is this kind of situation can we called as a history?.

I think to answer the five things of questions above we needing any comparing process beyond them each other, in order to getting the nearest coordinates position of the research to the true logics for touching its truth as universal's essence. So that interdependence conditions of the stories has to take as variables. It is cause with some comparing as showing by two couples of correlations or more would makes concludes.

Before trying to taking any acts to pairing them as nice and also precise couples, I think the concrete orally history's method needing a sampling, as its specialize case by its own user. Here I'm effort a paragraph for it; "Abstract This paper originally themed "Peranan Badan-Badan Perjuangan di Distrik Buah Batu pada masa Revolusi Fisik". The main problem about how does the rules of the struggle body's organizations in the battle around two of villages; Sapan and Cijawura in August 1946?. The method which be used is historical method, spreads heuristic, externally and internally critics, interpretation and historiography. The heuristic technical which used is literally studying and interview. The last one has done because the wrote sources about the battle in both of villages were difficult enough to found, but the doer<s> and the witnes<es> are still able to be meted.". Paragraph above based on the text on my paper;

'Abstrak Skripsi ini berjudul "Peranan Badan-Badan Perjuangan di Distrik Buah Batu pada masa Revolusi Fisik". Permasalahan utama mengenai bagaimana kiprah badan-badan perjuangan dalam peristiwa pertempuran di dua desa; Sapan dan Cijawura pada Bulan Agustus tahun 1946?. Metode yang digunakan adalah metodis historis, mencakup heuristik, kritik eksternal dan internak, interpretasi dan historiografi. Teknik yang digunakan dalam heuristik adalah studi literatur dan wawancara. Wawancara dilakukan karena sumber tertulis mengenai peristiwa pertempuran di dua desa cukup sulit diperoleh, namun pelaku dan saksi peristiwa pertempuran di kedua tempat tersebut masih mungkin ditemui. <Yunda, Tria Yusni. "Peranan Badan-Badan Perjuangan di Distrik Buah Batu pada masa Revolusi Fisik: Pertempuran di Desa Sapan dan Cijawura, Agustus 1946". Skripsi. Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. Bandung, 2007: vii>'.

That is as a sampling of the orally history's use full of mine whenever I'm writing the paper a few years ago, which its contains can showing to us todays about the orally history's rules in order to collect some data’s as heuristic step in the early term of the research. Why does the rules of the struggle body's organization have to been questioned anymore todays?. As method's logically cause the main-set thinking of the common peoples that become mind-setter is necessary hold on the history's sources, such as; world history and national's history,- which have been writing, and no much of them use orally history's method, especially use for a local history,- as their tools of equipment’s post in the balance sheet of them <if there is some activities to collecting data’s as heuristic-foot-step. So that the kind of equipment’s post, should has special values to get whenever it been registered first in the balance>. However, the mind set of heuristic's-foot-step which necessary effort literally as its source look like obeying this item of equipment. If the researcher know how the older books or literally sources else was been processed with this item, they would being relized to search and put their references with this older items, even though the shrink cost of this item needing its calculates by its own in their report's sheet. Todays, we could seeing a common phenomenon in conventional economical system, whenever the story which serving by a candidate of the borrower on a bank's procedure is being an important things for the feeding-borrower partition. Does the bank partition find any actual prospects on their new borrowers?. It is most be influenced by their trust levels to some data and fact which their customer given; by some documents wrote, and especially by orally history method about past performances of the customer who recited it in the present, and comparing the story from them with any verses of stories about them from the other partitions of the business; as the same business doers, and to the witnesses about the business growth and progress from several terms of the past time to the present. That is why, this historian's methods: orally history, needed in bank's steps of procedure, especially to knowing their prospect's characters.

Arriving to here, history's method can take some ways to starting compare; A, B, C, D, and E above.