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CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1.The Background of Study

People always do the various things along his life, and it also produce

something new, abstract verbal form is to prove his existence as human being. All of

those products can be said as a culture. Culture is too wide to define, because it has

many scopes. The world culture derived from Greek language, culere which means

land executing.

Banda Aceh is a famous city in Indonesia and abroad, not only for its natural

beauty such Seulawah Agam Mountain and Seulawah Inong Mountain, but also its

traditional dances, such Saman Dance andRanup Lampuan Dance. Looking back to

the past, Banda Aceh is also one of the oldest city among the others in Indonesia,

which once was a netherlands colony.

Many people have a great curiosity to know more about Aceh and its culture,

especially its traditional ceremony. Here, I decide to explain about the description of

Acehnese people especially, and all reader commonly could understand how

important to know about a traditional ceremony briefly in order to keep it well.

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1.2.The Scope of StudyAs Banda Aceh has many others traditional ceremonies, as I just limit the

topic that is important in order to avoid the readers of getting confuse. I will discuss

about the system and tradition of Acehnese wedding ceremony in Banda Aceh.

1.3 The Purpose of Study

In accordance with the explanation above, therefore the general purpose of this

paper is to describe the process and meaning of wedding ceremony in Banda Aceh

briefly based on the ancient original tradition. Besides that, there are also several

specific purpose of writing this paper, they are:

1. To enrich a basic knowledge of the readers about the traditional weddingceremony, especially in Banda Aceh.

2. As an effort to help readers as a modern people in maintaining theirtraditional customs, so that they can run the ceremony well because they

know its meaning, they do not just continue the traditions from the previous

generations.

3. To remind the reader that the traditional wedding ceremony is veryinteresting to follow as a way to prove their existence as the member of a

plural society in Indonesia.

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1.4 The Significance of Study

This paper is just a reference. By study this paper, I hope that the readers will

get an additional knowledge about the wedding ceremony in Banda Aceh, so that they

could implicate it in their daily life or when they want to get marry. I also hope that

by reading this paper, the reader could keep the traditional customs in order to help

the government in maintaining the national culture.

1.5 The Method of Writing

In writing this paper, I use the library research, by taking the data from books,

etc. that relevant for this paper. Besides that, I also take data from internet to complete

the data taken from the source above.

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