HANTARAN TRADITTION IN MARRIAGE CULTURAL OF MALAY CITYZENS AT PEKAN HERAN VILLAGE WEST RENGAT SEBDISTRICT INDRAGIRI HULU REGENCY

Abstract

Tradition is a pattern of behavior that engendered to the culture in community
people. This is the result of that community it self. Every community have own
charecteristic that appear from life process that’s called tradition. Inside of the
community at Pekan Heran village West Rengat Sebdistrict Indragiri Hulu Regency,
will do marriege with present. This present tradition is one of marreige process that
given by fiance to fiance family like some useful stuff and some money to help out
and responsibility from fiance in their relatinsho later.
This study intended to determine how the public’s understanding of the process
of present tradition that has undergrone a shift in hantaran as well as the factors that
caused it.
Appereance of globalization in the community of Indragiri Hulu is threat for
etenity and continuity malay characteristic of Indragiri Hulu for long time ago. Then
even increasing number of population and the entry of other people characteristic
effect, education factor, economy factor and advance technology is also need faith
and devotion in applying especially young people will be lead future os society. With
the advance by the various transformation in various sectors many of the values and
traditions that were forgotten and almost lost and tend to shift from society of malay.
Keywords: Hantaran Tradition, Malay Cityzens, Shifting Value.