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Abstract

Sunlie Thomas Alexander is one of the writers of Chinese descent who raised the world of Chinese Bangka. One of his interesting short story is "Jelaga hio". In the short story, Alexander illustrates clearly how people of Chinese descent in Bangka maintain culture through a lok thung rite. With literary anthropology, the short story can be seen how the preservation of Bangka Chinese community culture through lok thung rituals. Referring to this approach, the research data is in the form of idiographic data in the form of text excerpts. The Lok Thung ritual is the identity of the Chinese community in Bangka originating from ancestral lands. With the lokthung ritual still held, the preservation of Bangka Chinese culture is maintained. In addition, through the lokthung ritual, cultural inheritance also occurs with the successors of the descendants of lok thung.

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