Malay Oral Literature on Billah Riverside and Flood Prevention

DOI

10.2991/amca-18.2018.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Oral literature, Billahriver, Flood prevention

Abstract

This research reveals values in Malay oral Literature among people residing on Billah riverside, North Sumatera, Indonesia. This area is dangerous due tothe potential of flood, whereas its existence is also the cause of the flood. One of the causes is people’s lack of awareness in maintaining mutual positive relationship between human and their environment proportionally. Theresearch problem is to find out how oral literature‘s values guide society’s behavior to preserve and not to damage their environment. The purpose of this research is to make sure those values tied up in people’smind and behavior living in on the riverside. The research useddescriptive qualitative with social and literature reception approach. This research showed that the values of Malay oral literature among society who live on Billah riverside in North Sumaterahave relationship with their behavior, as those values have connection with people beliefs towards Islam. Those values can be applied as a flood prevention

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© 2018, 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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