The Value of Katuvu in Residential Spaces in the Kaili Ledo Community, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

The Kaili Ledo community in the Palu Valley, Central Sulawesi, has a value system for its settlement based on the phenomenon of attachment to the houses. These values relate to home life and the aftermath of the earthquake from which they emerged strongly. One of these values is Katuvu ri Sou. This is a local term from the Kaili Ledo community, in the language of the Kaili Ledo tribe, who inhabit the Palu Valley and the Raranggonau settlement. Kaili Ledo originates in the Eastern Mountains in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Katuvu ri Sou is defined as home life, which contains elements of the meaning and symbolism of gender, both women, men, and children. These elements are found in the house elements of the king pillar (Tinjabumvu), land (tana), and house space, namely the existence of the women's room (Tombi mombine) and the men's room (Tombi langgai). In understanding the phenomenon of attachment to home, there is a value system from Katuvu ri Sou, which is very important because there are basic symbols and meanings from a gender perspective, apart from the values of longing for home. This study explores the value of Katuvu ri Sou as a value of home life with meaning and symbols. It uses the grounded theory method to obtain the data in this research from the empirical conditions of the Raranggonau Settlement, including informants or sources who experience or know clearly about the phenomenon. The findings demonstrate that Katuvu ri Sou is one of the causes of the phenomenon of attachment to home in the Kaili Ledo community. Apart from the gender element, there is respect for ancestors from female figures and spirits in the sky and the land.