Proceedings of the International Symposium on Religious Literature and Heritage (ISLAGE 2021)

Mamacan in Bayan Village North Lombok

Preserving Tradition and Disseminating Religious Values

Authors
Zakiyah Zakiyah1, *, Anik Farida2
1National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia
2National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: zaki_smart@yahoo.com
Corresponding Author
Zakiyah Zakiyah
Available Online 17 February 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220206.038How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Mamacan; Islamic values; wetu telu; local traditions
Abstract

This article discusses a mamacan tradition in Bayan village North Lombok West Nusa Tenggara. This tradition has been practiced since many years ago by a local community called adat Bayan. This adat community is the descendants of former Kedatuan Bayan, a small kingdom that existed around the 16th century. Data of this study are gathered through three methods, namely interviews, observation, and documentary research. The findings of this study show that mamacan is a tradition of reading manuscripts (lontar/takepan) done by a pambacan (a reader). Then the translator will translate and explain the meaning of the lontar. This tradition is usually conducted during certain rituals and events, such as wedding ceremony, circumcision ceremony, cutting baby’s hair, and other rituals. The manuscript for mamacan is selected based on the ceremony type since different rituals will use different manuscripts. For instance, manuscript entitled Jatiswara, Nursada, Nurcahya, Bang Bari, and Nabi Haparas. These manuscripts contain various local values and religious teaching; therefore, mamacan is one of the ways to preserve tradition and disseminate religious values. However, not all people can read that lontar and understand its meaning. Most of those manuscripts were written in Jejawan (Old Javanese letters) and Sasak and Javanese letters, and a combination of Javanese Sasak languages.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Religious Literature and Heritage (ISLAGE 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
17 February 2022
ISBN
978-94-6239-538-1
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220206.038How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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