Diana Susilowati, a woman born in Yogyakarta, has successfully defended her dissertation manuscript entitled FIRE CONCEPT-BASED SETTLEMENTS IN THE TERRITORY OF THE PANCER PANGAWINAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, through a closed session of doctoral promotion led directly by Prof. Dr. Ir. Atiek Suprapti, MT. Who is also a promoter, on February 7, 2024, with a graduated predicate. The closed session of doctoral promotion was held offline. She was declared the 84th doctor at the Doctoral Program in Architecture and Urban Sciences, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University (UNDIP). The dissertation manuscript has been tested by Prof. Dr. Ir. Edi Purwanto, MT., and Prof. Dr. MudjahirinThohir, MA., as Universitas of Diponegoro internal examination team in a series of dissertation hearings starting from the proposal hearing, feasibility hearing, to the closed session of doctoral promotion. In addition, Dr. Ir. Susilo Kusdiwanggo, S.T., M.T., CIQaR, was also involved in testing herdissertation manuscript as an external examiner from Brawijaya University Malang. The dissertation manuscript is the result of a series of research processes guided directly by Prof. Dr. Ir. Atik Suprapti, MT., as a promoter and Prof. Dr. Ir. R. Siti Rukayah, MT., as co-promoter-1, and Dr. Ir. Pancawati Dewi, MT as co- promoter-2 both at the research location and in the studio at the UNDIP Architecture and Urban Sciences Doctoral Program.
For 4 years 6 months 2 days, this woman, who was born on November 10, 1977, has completed her lecture and research process in the architectural subfamily of History and architecture with a focus on traditional settlement arrangements, with the Pancer-Pangawinan Community as the locus of research in the Sukabumi area of West Java. The research topic raised was the relationship between settlements and fireplaces which explained how the role of fire in the formation of settlements and the meaning arising from the use of fire. Her research is based on qualitative research with an approach strategy using inductive case studies. The findings that arise due to the mystical nature of fire display the concept of guardians as both ‘tangible’ and ‘intangible’, which is embodied in the Pamuk concept. ‘Pamuk‘ means as a protector for the safety, welfare and sustainability of the Pancer-Pangawinan indigenous people and makes fire a place marker for other architectural elements, thus enriching the previous theory of fire as a place marker but on a micro (micro) scale. The concept of ‘Pamuk‘ in the fire-based spatial order of the Pancer-Pangawinan Indigenous Peoples is in the form of a process change between ‘seneu‘ (profane), ‘seneu‘ or ‘geni‘ (profane or sacred) and ‘geni‘ (sacred), protecting so that the sustainability of these indigenous peoples can take place as an effort to maintain their originality. Thus, it allows old settlements to develop following modernization while the authenticity of the Pancer-Pangawinan Indigenous Peoples is maintained in new settlements based on the concept of fire.
As a lecturer in charge of the Department of Architecture at Gunadarma University Jakarta, Diana Susilowati has been given the opportunity to continue her doctoral education at the UNDIP Architecture and Urban Science Doctoral Program through an internal scholarship at Gunadarma University in 2019. During his education, he also played an active role in national and international seminar activities and has spawned several scientific articles in national and international journals. One of them is an article entitled Evolution in the Spatial Order of Baduy Houses (Case Studies of Inner and Outer Baduy Houses) which has been published by the journal NaLars, a national journal originating from the University of Muhammadiyah Jakarta and accredited by Sinta 3 National as well as several other articles in international journals Scopus indexed.