CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1. 1The Background of the Study
Indonesia has many kinds of Ceremonies 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 Karo society, which also has varieties kinds of culture and custom.
The custom way of Karo society includes into a system. It a Death Ceremony in Karo society. The Death Ceremony is one part that has a functional existention. The
ceremony that can be observed as a modern tradition, basically is a source of 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 Karo culture especially The Death Ceremony in Karo Society. The aim are not only to preserve the
useful values but also can be accepted by all of the Indonesian citizen. The real nation culture is a 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.
As a Karonese, the writer wants to explain about ceremony “Cawir Metua” 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 Karo society.
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In this occasion, the writer will describe ‘Cawir Metua’ ceremony in Karo Society. That is the reason why the writer is interested in describing about ‘Cawir Metua’
Ceremony in Karo as a topic in my paper.
1. 2The Objective of the Study
I have some objective in writing this paper, they are: •
To describe the meaning of Death Ceremony Cawir Metua in Karo Society. •
To increase their knowledge. •
To contributed the paper to the libraries of USU and English Department.
1. 3The Scope of the Study
There are many things that can be discussed about Karo Culture. So in this paper, I limited the scope of the study only ‘Cawir Metua’ Ceremony.
1. 4 The Significance of the Study
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