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 and Ranup 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 Study As 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 wedding ceremony, especially in Banda Aceh. 2. As an effort to help readers as a modern people in maintaining their traditional 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 very interesting 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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