1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Background of Study
Indonesia is one of the country in Southeast Asia,comprising more than 17.508 islands. It has many of ethnic groups, every ethnic groups has a specific
culture and the system of belief. One of traditional aspects in our national culture is the religion and the system of belief. In the real life,the aspect has many functions
which are concerned culture values and concerned with the other aspects of culture like Politics,Social Matter,and Economic.
The diversity of culture in Indonesia can be seen from many customs, religious, ethnic groups, roles, and relationship between individuals. The Batak ethnic
groups consists of five sub-ethnic groups, there are Toba Batak, Karo Batak, Simalungun Batak, Pakpak Dairi Batak and Mandailing Batak. Each ethnic group has
many similarities and differences with the other ethnic groups in their languages, cultures, traditions, habits, ceremonies, and the roles for all are to unite the
similarities and differences caused by history, geography and religion. Nowadays, as we know many of ethnic groups still believe in their traditional
belief although they have the religion. Based on the above statement, the writer is interested in discussing about the
ghosts in the society of karonese that is one of the system of their belief.
1.2 The Scope of Study
To make this paper effectively arranged,the writer limited the scope of writing. Karo land is a very large land, that is why the writer limited the topic. The
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writer only writes about the Ghosts in Kecamatan KutaBuluh Simole, around of the
writer’s village. 1.3 The Objective of Study
In this paper, the writer wants to know more about the ghosts in Karo land,the type of ghosts, why the karonese worship to the ghosts, for what they do it, etc. The
writer hopes by writing this paper can raise our religion and the system of belief. I as the writer also remind all the people, especially the reader of this paper never worship
to the ghosts because we have the religion and we only have one god, Tuhan Yang Maha Esa, no one the other
1.4 The Significance of Study
Some of significances that we can find in this paper are : 1The readers will know about the ghosts in Karonese Society.
2The readers will know the type of ghosts. 3The readers will know why the karonese worship and maintain the ghosts.
4The readers will know for what they maintain the ghosts. 5By knowing about the ghosts, it make us to increase our belief in one god, that is
Tuhan Yang Maha Esa.
1.5 The Method of Study
In writing this paper, the writer applied three methods of study, there are library research, that is by collecting some books that related the topic discussed;
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field research, by asking some informants who know about this topic, the writer interviewed and discussed with them; and the last the writer browsed some references
in internet for further information. All of the methods were really helpful in finding and selecting important information that supported the writing of the paper.
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2. A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF KARO LAND 2.1 The Geography
