THE CULTURAL VALUES OF BATAK TOBA IN BATU GANTUNG LOCAL TRADITION IN SAMOSIR ISLAND

The research was found on the topic about The Cultural Values of batak Toba in Batu Gantung Local Tradition in Samosir Island. This study was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative method. The source of data was taken from the informants who live around Samosir Island, Kabupaten Simalungun. The technique for analyzing the data is descriptive qualitative research based on The Cultural Values in Sibarani (2013). The result of this research was The Cultural Values of Batak Toba in Batu Gantung Local Tradition in Samosir Island are Seeing Each Other Frequently, Honesty (30%), courtesy, social solidarity, harmony and conflict resolution (60%), welfare, hard work, discipline, mutual cooperation, gender management (80%) and education, health, cultural preservation and creativity, environmental concern, peace, commitment, positive thoughts, and gratitude. (100%).


INTRODUCTION
Indonesia is a rich country with culture and custom as heritage that spread from Sabang to Merauke. There are many islands and tribes in Indonesia with different custom, cultures and people. While material culture is concrete and takes the form of artefacts and crafts, nonmaterial culture is abstract but has a very pervasive influence on the lives of the people of a particular culture.

Batak Toba
Toba Batak, is an ethnic group of many Batak clans found in Sumatra. The Toba Batak tribal settlement area includes the Toba Samosir district consisting of Balige, Laguboti, Parsoburan and its surroundings. The Toba Batak people have a clan that shows the identity of the descendants they came from. The name of the clan is obtained from their father which will then be passed on to the male offspring continuously. According to the Batak people, "children" (boys) are kings, while "boru" (daughters) means clans break up there.

Local Tradition
Tradition is complex which includes knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws, customs and others relating to human abilities and habits as member society.
Selo Soemardi as quoted by Purwanto S.U, argues, that culture is all the result of creation, intention human taste and work in society. Whereas according to Mursal Esten, tradition is a habit of descending a group of people based on valuesthe culture of the community concerned. Tradition show community members behave, both in life which is occult or religious.

Legend
Legend traditions are particularly interesting because they are central tools in the social negotiation of these models. An overview of a culture"s legends is also a reflection of its visions, conceptions, fears and fantasies as these are conventio-nally realized and negotiated through discourse. This makes legend indices a valuable resource for research in numerous areas. (Elore:2012)

Batu Gantung Local Tradition
Batu Gantung is one of local traditions from Samosir Island. Batu Gantung is famous for its mystical thing. Long ago there was a beautiful girl in Parapat, buther parents match their daughter by a youngman. Eventhough, their daughter has a relationship with a young man who had become her boyfriend. She refused the suggestion of her parents to marry someone else and preferred her boyfriend. Because she felt hesitant to refuse her parents' urge, she was depressed and felt sorry for her parents for being a topic in their village. After returning from the fields, the girl did not go home, but preferred to sit alone and brood on the edge of Lake Toba accompanied by her beloved dog named Toki. When the night come, the girl go home with a blank mind. Without realizing, she did not see a large hole in the road, then fell into the hole.
When her dog see his employer fell into the hole, it barked to ask someone for help. In the hole, the girl preferred to die rather than bear the shame of refusing someone else's proposal. She shouted loudly from inside the hole, "Come close ... get it." The wall of the stone was closer and squeezes the girl. Not long after the earthquake shook the ground, the land around Lake Toba felt and left only a pile of stones where the girl's hole was and become a hanging stone. The hanging stone is shaped like a human.

METHODOLOGY
The design of this research was conducted with descriptive qualitative design. Descriptive research is a research method which describes the condition, evens or situation. Badgonand Taylor stated in Salim (2009:45) says that descriptive qualitative method refers to the research procedure which produce descriptive data : people own language, or written words and observable behaviours and seeks to provide the goals using the data in form of words, this research is not using number (quantitative). The sources of the data was the story of Batu  In the previous chapter the welfare is explained as a type of government support for the citizens of that society. Welfare may be provided to people of any income level, as with social security ( and is then often called a society safety net), but it is usually intended to ensure that the poor can meet their basic human needs such as food and shelter. Welfare attempts to provide poor people with a minimal level of well-being, usually either a free or a subsidized supply of certain goods and social service, such as healthcare, education, and vocational training. This value is found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following:  Disada huta tinggal ma sada keluarga namora. Jabuna balga, horbona godang,

haumana bidang jala lombuna pe godang
In some village lived a rich family. Their house is very big, they have a lot buffalos, a large field, and also cows that many. (at that time the people who have many pets are considered wealthy).
The family would be more prosperous if they married their children and had a grandchildren before they died. In bataknese there are a tradition if they see all of their children got married and have a grandchildren before they died they feel completed. It feels like their all their obligation in the world has done and they will be calm even they had die.

Hard work
Hard work is an activity that is done seriously without stopping before the target work is achieved. It is not a question here of demanding or strenuous work. This kind of work is a negative good, and it commonly carries other negative goods in its train: poverty, insecurity, ill health, physical danger, dishonor and degradation. And yet it is socially necessary work; it needs to be done, and it means that someone must be found to do it.This value has found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following:

Dungi dipasahat ma tu inang ni seruni i jala ittor dihobasi ma na hombar tusi
After Seruni"s father said that seruni has to marriage in this week, Seruni"s mother prepared for her daughter wedding ceremony. In bataknese the bride family feel so respected if their daughter got marriage.

Discipline
Discipline is action or inaction that is regulated to be in accordance (or to achieve accord) with a particular system of governance. Discipline is commonly applied to regulating human and animal behavior, and furthermore, it is applied to each activity-branch in all branches of organized activity, knowledge, and other fields of study and observation. This value is found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following:

Ro ma si Seruni neng manjalo ijin tu amongna neng mardalani rohana tu parmonasan
Seruni asked a permission to her father because she wanted to go to some places. Seruni was a disciplined girl because she didn"t go anywhere without permission.

Education
Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include storytelling discussion, teaching, training, and directed research. Education can take place in formal and informal settings and any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational.This value has found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following: Alai manang songon dia pe huoloi pe hata muna i among inong. Dang paloason ku hamu tarila di huta on. Ikkon sangap do hamu bahenonku.
I have to say that, I would take your advice Mom, Dad. I would not let you ashamed in this village. I would make you proud of me. Seruni do not want to make her parents ashamed in the village, she do everything her parents said although inside she felt so sad because she had to against her promise with a guy she loved.

Health
Health is a condition of the body and mind and the degree to which it is free from illness, or the state of being well.This value is found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following: Mabiar ma among ni si Seruni on alana ro udan dohot ronggur diparlao ni si Seruni on. Atik boha tarsiladdit patna di robean ni Sibaganding an.
Seruni"s father worried about Seruni"s health because that situation rainy at the time, when Seruni went. He worried Seruni will fall down to the edge of the lake, because when Seruni went such a rainy rain and the lightning is very powerful and of course the streets was slippery because of rain.

Mutual cooperation
Mutual cooperation is the process of groups of organisms working or acting together for common or mutual benefit,as opposed to working in competition for selfish benefit. This value is found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following:

Jala didok ibana ma asa rappak mangaluli nasida paima so torang dope ari. Rap mangalului si seruni ma nasida di tonga borngin.
He said that, they would look for Seruni together, before the sunset came. So, they looking for Seruni together in the middle of the night. They worried if the sun came, their neighbor would see them and know about their problem. Because in bataknese that such a embarrassing problem.

Jala denggan do mardalan pesta ni nasida ala pangurupion ni akka jolma.
The wedding party went so well because other people also helped them. In the village if their neighbor had a ceremony such as wedding ceremony they will be help them to prepare the wedding such as cleaning their house, cooking for the food, ect.

Gender management
Organizational and managerial realities construct, sometimes re-form and even subvert, dominant gender relations. When "gender" is considered, whether in theory or practice, it is still common to focus on "men and women" and "relations between them". While these are certainly key aspects of gender relations, they are only part of it. Gender is just as relevant in relations between women, and between men. Sex and sex differences are often naturalized as fixed in biology.This value is found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following:

Ala naung muli si Seruni tu anak ni namboru na, laos dohot ma ibana tu jabu ni na nanung simatua nai songon biasa adat ni halak batak.
Because Seruni was married, she lived in her Namboru"s house. It is one of the norms of Bataknese. So if the girls of bataknese got married they will follow her husband, if their husband did not have a house yet, they can lived in their husband parent"s house.

Cultural preservation and creativity
Preservation is a grounded effort, and this basis is called also the factors that support it both from within and from outside of the things preserved. Therefore, a process or action conservation recognizes strategies or techniques based on needs and their respective conditions.Being a provision in cultural preservation will be a form of culture, which means that a culture is preserved indeed is still there and known, although in its development it is increasingly forgotten.This value is found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following:

Didokkon ma anggo boru ni raja i ikkon sangap do bahenon ni nasida jala ikkon makkuling do sude ogung jala ikkon jouon do sahuta nang dohot raja ni huta.
They told that Seruni should be treated like the daughter of the king, they extended all the culture by the traditional music, called ogung and they also invited the king in the village.

Environmental concern
Environmental concerns express general attitudes toward the quality of the environment embodied in the willingness of self to declare actions that can improve and maintain the quality of the environment in any behavior related to the environment.The discussion is as the following: Ala tamba do sangap ni sada keluarga molo dipangolihon anakkonna jala marpahoppu paima so marujung ngoluna.
In Bataknese culture, when the parents let their children get married before they pass away they will be welfare.The family would be more prosperous if they married their children and had a grandchildren before they died.

Peace
Peace is the concept of harmonious well-being and freedom from hostile aggression. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or heterogeneous (relatively foreign or distinct) groups.This value is found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following: Adongma anak nasida sada namargoar si pulik jala ala nga matua daging nasida sihol ma roha nasida naeng pangolihon anak sasada nasida i.
They have a son, called Purlik. Their son has been old, so they planed to marry him to the daughter of their family.

Courtesy
Courtesy is the rules of life that arise from the outcomes of the group. The norm of politeness is relative, meaning what is perceived as a norm of decency varies in different places, environments, or times. Examples of norms of courtesy are: respect older people, receive something always with your right hand, do not say dirty, rude, and arrogant, No spitting anywhere, not interrupting the conversation. This value is found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following:
She said that, why you told me now mom, dad ? however, I must take your advice, I will not let you ashamed in this situation. Because Seruni do not know that her parents make a promise to with their family to match Seruni and their son when they an adult.

Honesty
Honesty is telling the truth or able to be trusted and not like to steal, cheat or lie. This value is found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following:

Social solidarity
Social solidarity is the relationship between individuals or group that form the morals and beliefs experienced and reinforced by shared emotional experiences. Although the issue of social solidarity has the potential to pose difficulties for many other subjects in the social sciences and beyond, it is in sociological works that the problem is confronted most frequently and directly. This value is found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following: Jala na hombar tusi pe nga dipasahat tu hula-hula i tarsongon mas, horbo nungnga denggan dipasahat tu nanaeng hula-hula nasida i.
And Purlik"s parents (as hula-hula) have prepared all the things as the usually terms that they need in the wedding like, some golds and buffalos.

Harmony and conflict resolution
It means compatible, able to exist in peace or agreement, or things that fit together well.
This can relate to many conditions in life. For instance, two or more musical instruments working together to produce a pleasing sound fitting together to make a complete sound. This value is found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following: Mangido salah ma among ni si Pulik on taringot tu halao ni si Seruni. Jala didok ibana ma asa rappak mangaluli nasida paima so torang dope ari. Rap mangalului si seruni ma nasida di tonga borngin.
Purlik"s parents beg for a pardon because of that trouble, and He said that, they would look for Seruni together, before the darkness came.
Tubu ma rohana naeng lao sian jabu ni simatua nai. Paima golap ari asa unang adong na mamereng ibana. Naeng lao ma ibana sian i naeng manikkot ala ni lungun ni rohana. Lao ma ibana sip-sip Seruni wanted to leave her mother-in-law"s home. She wanted to end her life because she was very sad. So she left the house without saying anything.

Commitment
A commitment obligates you to do something. Some commitments are large, like marriage. When you take a job, you're making a commitment to show up and do the job well, and your employer makes a commitment to pay you. There are smaller commitments too. If you said you'd meet a friend at six, that's a commitment show up or your friend will be mad. You also can speak of commitment as a quality. This value is found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following: Dijua si Seruni on ma hatani amongna alana nga adong hata ni anak ni halak naung dijalo ibana.
Seruni refused her father"s plan, because she has a boyfriend that she wants to get married.

Positive thoughts and gratitude
Positive thinking is a mental attitude in wich you expect good and favorable results. In other words, positive thinking is the process of creating thoughts that create and transform energy into reality.gratitude is more than feeling thankful for something, it is more like a deeper appreciation for someone (or something,) which produces longer lasting positivity.This value is found in Batu Gantung Local Tradition. The discussion is as the following:

Dipaloas ma nasida lao alana dipikkiran ni amang ni si Seruni ala naga balga boruna ikkon loason do mardalani asa terbuka pikkiranna.
Seruni"s father finally let her go because he thought that her daughter was anadult and so that she cored have broaden horizon of thinking.