Identity politics and digitalization in Negeri Tulehu, Central Maluku Regency

Research on Identity Politics and Digitalization in Negeri Tulehu, Central Maluku Regency, to find out and explain whether the rapid development of digitalization today affects the political identity of the people of Negeri Tulehu as an indigenous community. Using qualitative research methods with the determination of appropriate vital informants, it is illustrated that digitalization has developed and is used by the people of Negeri Tulehu, but their identity as indigenous people is maintained. In the reality of interactions that occur in the Tulehu community, social changes occur. However, these social changes do not significantly affect the style and way of life of the community as a whole because they continue to build harmonious social relationships based on local cultural and customary ideals in order to strengthen social ties of kinship both at the level of the children of the Negeri and other people who live and are in the social life environment of the Tulehu community. Identity politics practiced in the Negeri Tulehu community is beneficial to Negeri Tulehu and the wider community.