READING OF YASIN AROUND AS A TRADITION OF TOLAK BALA IN KELURAHAN PENDANG DISTRICT OF BARITO SOUTH, CENTRAL KALIMANTAN

Abstract

: Traditions developed not apart from the oldest religions in Indonesia Hindu and Buddhist, so a few traditions or customs around people adopted the cultures of these two religions. As can be seen in Central Kalimantan itself, some traditions, especially Islam, have also largely adopted local culture. The aim of this study is to see and analyze how the tradition of Yasin reading revolves around as a tradition of rejection of balak in Pendang village of South Barito district. As for the method of research used qualitative descriptive with the phenomenological model. With the primary data sources some people or customary figures also some supportive informants that are local communities who have lived earlier in the location. The next step is to analyze the data with several steps: data collection, data verification, and drawing a conclusion. This study shows that the tradition of Yasin's reading around exists from previous generations. The traditions of reading Yasin around as one way to keep the village or village feelings safe, peaceful, avoided from disasters and carried out in one year. It is also understandable that the tradition of reading Yasin, where Yasin is a part of the Qur'an and is coupled with the Burdah reading containing prayers to the Prophet read in turn. The tradition has two dimensions, first the theological (sacred) and social (classification, rite and solidarity) dimensions between citizens/societies.