CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Background of Study
Indonesia has many kinds of custom, culture, and religions beliefs which are including into national culture and territory ethnic culture. The kinds of
culture, which are owned by every ethnic in Indonesia national culture sources. One of them is Batak Toba society, which also has varieties kinds of culture and
custom. The custom way of Batak Toba society includes into a system. It is Death
Ceremony in Batak Toba Society. The Death Ceremony is one of a part that has a functional existention. The ceremony that can be observed as a modern tradition,
basically is a source of a history. In the system of that ceremony including values, norm, rules as a ideal aspect.
For that purpose, the writer want to describe the portrait of Batak Toba culture especially The Death Ceremony in Batak Toba Society. The aim are not
only to preserve the useful values but also can be contributed for the existence of national culture that can be accepted by all of the Indonesian citizen. The real
national culture is rooted in territory culture, according to the principal archipelago concept so that there is an absolute defense in facing the foreign
culture or a unlucky situation from inside.
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As a Bataknese, the writer wants to explain abut ceremony “Saur Matua” That ceremony is a part of the series of the Death Ceremony and until now has
been still held and considered as an important thing for Batak Toba Society. In this occasion, the writer will describe ‘Saur Matua’ Ceremony in Batak
Toba Society. That is the reason why the writer is interested in describing about ‘Saur Matua’ Ceremony in Batak Toba as a topic of my paper.
1.2 The Objective of Study
I have some objective in writing in this paper, they are: 1.
I want to describe the meaning of Death Ceremony ‘Saur Matua’ in Batak Toba Society.
2. I hope this paper will be useful for the readers to increase their knowledge.
3. I hope this paper can contributed for the existence of national culture that
can be accepted by all of the Indonesian citizen.
1.3 Scope of The Study
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