Mapalus Cultural Reconstruction in Tompaso Baru Village South Minahasa Regency

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201014.029How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mapalus, Culture, Mutual Cooperation, Solidarity, Minahasa

Abstract

This study tries to explore how Mapalus values develop in the lives of people in Tompaso Baru. The importance of this research is to preserve Minahasa’s cultural customs, especially in terms of Mapalus culture, for the values contained therein remain sustainable and can be passed on by the next generation in shaping the nation’s identity and to form a national character that has values Civic culture. The method and approach used are qualitative. Analysis of the data used in this study is qualitative analysis. Based on the results of the study it is known that: (1) Mapalus is a manifestation of the Minahasa people’s way of life as a system of rules of life arrangement and empowerment of individuals and ancestral heritage communities who use it as a principle of family life due to a set of behavioral concepts for life and to solve problems. (2) Values contained in Mapalus culture Participatory, wherein Mapalus activities all people are actively involved starting from the beginning of the plan to conduct Mapalus in completion. In every Mapalus activity, all people who participated in the activity we’re involved fully from the planning of the activity to the completion of the activity. The value of Solidarity, in Mapalus culture, appears a sense of togetherness, a sense of unity of interest, a sense of sympathy, as one member of the same class to jointly conduct Mapalus activities. Reciprocal values, in Mapalus culture everyone works together, helping one another. Therefore, if someone who conducts Mapalus activities for themselves or their families, then when there is Mapalus activity for other people/families, the person concerned should also repay him to work for the family. Leadership Value, in Mapalus culture the ability of a leader to recognize the time and need to conduct activities, identify, communicate the implementation strategy / Mapalus activities to everyone involved in these activities for these activities can be achieved. Mutual Cooperation values in Mapalus culture doing a work conducted together, helping each other, then enjoy the results of the work together is also the main core of Mapalus culture.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Meity Najoan
AU  - Xaverius Erick Lobja
AU  - Aksilas Dasfordate
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/15
TI  - Mapalus Cultural Reconstruction in Tompaso Baru Village South Minahasa Regency
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 125
EP  - 130
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201014.029
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201014.029
ID  - Najoan2020
ER  -