SISTEM KEKERABATAN MASYARAKAT KAMPUNG SAWAH DI KOTA BEKASI

Abstract

The phenomenon of population at Kampung Sawah Jatimurni District of Pondok Melati Bekasi shows that its people are not from ethnic Batak, but most of them are Sundanese and Betawinese. In the kinship structure of society of both ethnics, the term clan is unfamiliar. Rather it is known in the community of North Sumatra namely Batak. This paper focuses on describing how the people in Kampung Sawah uses the clan system and whether the surnames given in Kampung Sawah have similarities to those existing in Batak. Based on the data, the clan in Kampung Sawah is different from the one used in Batak, either in the marriage system, family system and socio-cultural system.