This article is a study of Islamic relations and local
traditions in this case is the Islamic tradition of the
Gantarangkeke indigenous people, Bantaeng Regency as a
locus. The research problem is how is the history of the
Islamic encounter with Gantarangkeke locality and its
influence on the beliefs and traditions of the Gantarangkeke
people ?. This study belongs to the category of qualitativedescriptive

field research, using a historical, philosophical,
social, cultural, and descriptive-critical analytical approach.
The local tradition of the Gantarangkeke community has
grown long before Islam entered their territory. The tradition
is rooted in the belief of the Patuntung religion which is the
ancient belief of the pre-Islamic Gantarangkeke community.
The local tradition is institutionalized at the Pajukukang
traditional ceremony which is held every year and has several
series of events, namely assulukang pangngajai, akkawaru, if ri
pajukukang, and angnganre toballa'na. The encounter of
Islam and local traditions gave birth to a model of cultural
struggle in which Islam as a teaching that came from the
outside and of a global nature was brought into the realm of
the locality of the Gantarangkeke tradition. This then gave
birth to the concept of Sallang religion as a meeting point
between patuntung and Islamic beliefs. The concept of
Sallang religion later became the basis for the locus and forms
of the struggle of the culture. Cultural struggles enter the locus
of the belief system, the socio-cultural system, and the rite
system and the symbolic meaning of tradition. The cultural struggle gave birth to four forms of cultural and religious
relations, namely negotiation, compromise, syncretism, and
cultural acculturation. From this cultural struggle, the local
culture model of Gantarangkeke was unique and unique.

Keywords: Local Islam, Cultural Meetings, Gantarangkeke-
Bantaeng