Nation Integration a La Ngadatun and Marabia

by Vida Pervaya Rusianti Kusmartono

Abstract

The Maanyan in Haringen have yet favorably carry out activity of secondary burial, which has been practiced since the prehistoric period, nowadays. Presently, the majority of the Haringen community is Christian. Nevertheless, the performance of the living tradition shows a remarkable outlook of tolerance; A manifestation of their traditional value system, the Paju Sepuluh, that emphasizes on the completion of human life and its environmental conformity that indicates appreciation in regard to the subsistence of new cultural values that motivate intercultural adjustments. The very existence of the secondary burial tradition is the conception of the Haringen community, which is indirectly used as means to prevent threats against present intense nation disintegration.

(Source: naditira Widya Special Edition Number 6, June 2001:53-69; ISSN 1410-0932)