Gotong-royong is a social solidarity that occurs in people's lives, especially those who form communities, because in this community will be seen clearly. Mutual cooperation takes place in several activities of life, such as gotong royong in the form of work, done for the common good; gotong-royong in the form of help please during the wedding, or circumcision, a few days before the party will be made donations from acquaintances, neighbors or relatives come to help in the form of food, money, or energy, then this aid should be returned at least with the value the same one.
Even gotong-royong can also occur at the time of the unfortunate or the death of one of the community, this can not be called mutual interests or personal interests but a sense of humanity that arises among the citizens, because the disaster came not counted or known, so that people who get the disaster it requires the help of other citizens. Cooperation can take place on farmland in rural areas in the form of a power outlet at the time of clearing land to work on agricultural land, and ending at harvest time, the help of others like this should be returned in accordance with the energy that others give, it continues which eventually became the hallmark of society, especially those with an agrarian livelihood. Special assistance in agricultural land is exemplified in dryland farmers, especially in the huma system, because in the agricultural system it is very clear that the pattern of mutual cooperation that they do is the principle of reciprocity.
