FUNGSI DAN PERAN TRADISI MAPALUS DALAM MASYARAKAT MINAHASA, SULAWESI UTARA

Abstract

This research was conducted in Minahasa, North Sulawesi. This research
aims to describe the function and the role of Mappalus in maintaining
social unity in Minahasa society. This uses qualitative method,
where data was collected by interview and observation. Then data was
analyzed by descriptive-qualitative.
This research indicates that Minahasa people still use this Mappalus
to construct their social relation. This tradition has five principles are:
family affairs, working together, unity, democratization, and religious.
The tradition has function in maintaining the unity and harmonization
among the plural people at Minahasa. The tradition based on situo
timou tumoutou, torang samua basudara, and kaihake sumaheke, it
means that man was born to do humanization, man lives to give a life
for another man, and man lives to respect another man.