Tumpeng has been existing in Java since at ancient era and still keeped until now, that is often served in an event, this signified that tumpeng had a meaning. To reveal the meaning of tumpeng, the researcher using semiology method, semiology is a science for reveal and reproduce the possibility of new meaning that appear.
This research aims to know the meaning of tumpeng based on Javanese Islamic culture and Roland Barthes’s semiology perspective.
The study, entitle “The Meaning of Tumpeng in Javanese Islam (A Semiology Analysis on Tumpeng Using Roland Barthes’s Theory)”, the type of this study is qualitative research using analysis method whereas the approached is semiology approached and the collected of data on this research use some literatures (books, websites, journals) and interview
The researcher trying to give the meaning of tumpeng from denotative, connotative, and will be become a myth. In this study, the object of research is tumpeng. Based on the research question about the meaning of tumpeng, the research will get result about what is the behind mean of tumpeng; it is meant tumpeng have a strong mean in Javanese Islamic culture especially about the expectancy to the God or the sign of surrender to the God. But the meaning of tumpeng not only focus on the surrender to the God and the expectancy to the God, but also respect for olders.