STUDI KOMPARATIF LONTAR UGER – UGER PASANG AKSARA BALI TAHUN 1986/1995 DAN BUKU PEDOMAN PASANG AKSARA BALI TAHUN 2023: KAJIAN INTERTEKSTUAL

Abstract

Balinese script carries the linguistic and cultural identity of Bali, yet its written rules are transmitted through two different sources: the palm-leaf manuscript (lontar) Uger-Uger Pasang Aksara Bali written by I Wayan Samba in 1986 and the officially published Buku Pedoman Pasang Aksara Bali of 2023. Learning and preservation practice tend to rely on the printed guideline without comparative philological verification against the manuscript that historically underlies it, raising the risk of an unexamined gap between the two sources. This study compares the script rules recorded in the 1986 lontar with those set out in the 2023 guideline and examines the textual function of these similarities and differences for the standardization and preservation of Balinese script. The study applies a qualitative, library-based design combining philological method with the intertextual theory of Kristeva and Riffaterre. Primary data consist of the two documents; interviews with four informants, an academic linguist, a script teacher, a Pusdok Bali officer, and a senior lontar scribe, serve as confirmatory data. Data were analyzed following the interactive model of Miles and Huberman and validated through source and method triangulation. The study finds eight similarities and seven differences between the two sources. The similarities preserve the core technical mechanism of Balinese script, while the differences mainly extend accessibility and contextual relevance. Both sources draw on the same living scribal tradition rather than one deriving from the other, and their similarities and differences perform legitimation, educational, philosophical, and intertextual functions for the standardization and preservation of Balinese script.