TOLONG-MENOLONG DALAM PENYELENGARAAN PESTA PERNIKAHAN PADA MASYARAKAT BUGIS DI DESA MADELLO KABUPATEN BARRU SULAWESI SELATAN

Abstract

In this article I try to describe the activitity of helping each other in the celebration of wedding party at Buginese society in Madello village Barru regency South Sulawesi. The principal of helping each other which I observed was in the form of giving service, goods, and money to the parents of bridegroom and bride. These activities of helping each other are based on the principle of reciprocity from customary law and religious law. It seems that the moslem were earlier practiced these principle tfian the publish of Malinowski's finding in Trobriand Island (1926). In my assumption, the activity of helping each other at the Buginese wedding will exist in the future as long as they obey to their customary law and religious law.