Community empowerment takes a long time and an appropriate strategy to achieve
success. Moreover, innovation delivered constitutes the regulations restricting the
empowered community’s moving space. This research generally portrays pamali
(taboo) strategy in conducting community empowerment and particularly aims to
study local wisdom value in building the piety of the Kampung Naga community.
The research was conducted using a phenomenological descriptive qualitative
approach with an interactive technique of analysis. Data collection was carried out
through interview, observation, and documentation. The research results showed
that innovation constituting local wisdom made by Kampung Naga community’s
ancestor could build piety in three domains: spiritual, social, and environment.
Through those three pieties, Kampung Naga community becomes a powerful
Islam community in archipelago nuance and becomes an Islam community called
rahmatan lil alamin.