Tradisi Jujuran : Perempuan dalam Sistem Perkawinan Adat Nias (Studi pada Keluarga Nias di Kota Medan)

Abstract

The title of this research is Tradition of Jujuran: Women in Nias Traditional Marriage System (Study on Nias Tribe Families in Medan City). Jujuran is a tradition of the Nias people, which is a gift given to a woman's family by the groom in the form of pigs, gold, silver, and rice. Women in patriarchal cultures are always placed in a second-class position both in the circle of community life and cultural life. The method used in this research is descriptive with a qualitative approach. Determination of informants using purposive sampling technique, by interviewing 11 informants. The presentation of the data refers to the Commodification Theory to show the forms of gender injustice experienced by women both due to the jujuran tradition of marriage and gender inequality in the Nias tribal family institutions. The results of the study show that the construction that is formed in the family has been internalized in the life of the individual and has become a habit that is understandable. Marriage culture has its own uniqueness in its implementation. This is part of the local wisdom of a region. The existence of an encounter between patriarchal structures and capitalism influenced the determination of the value of jujuran tradition in the Nias marriage system. The bargaining process that occurs in determining Jujuran Tradition shows that women tend to be objects that are exchanged through marriage jujuran with social status such as women's education and work as indicators of their determination.