Wedding Ceremony Tradition from Lombok,Indonesia

Customary marriages in East Lombok society associated with the ceremonial transfer of power sliding aji spell. A young man (terune) can get a wife under customary in two ways: first by soloh (proposed to the girl's family); second merariq manner (run the girl), after one of the ways already done, the family man will do grammar marriage according to customary ways Sasak ..

East Lombok wedding ceremonies are often associated with traditional wedding ceremony sliding the hand-over spell aji is one of the traditions that have since time immemorial and have been stuck with a strong and intact in order of community life of East Lombok Sasak tribe, and even some good people among the religious leaders and figures indigenous peoples themselves stated that if it does not perform these ceremonies will be a disgrace to the family and the local community ..

Forward sliding derived from sliding, which means encouraging and hand-over, which means surrender, a sliding hand-over is a statement of consent of both parties better than the female and male party in a marriage procession of terune (bachelor) and dedare (girl) ..

Forward sliding ceremony is one of the most important ceremonies in the traditional wedding procession in the Sasak of East Lombok. The marriage procession in full is as follows:.

1.Mesejati
Implies that of the men sent some local community leaders or traditional leaders to report to the mayor or keliang / the mayor to announce the marriage of the identity of the prospective groom and then reported to the woman's family.


2.Selabar
Containing intention to treat proclaim to the bride's family who followed the customary conversation include aji istiadatnya spell of 33-66-100 values on the basis of the assessment money or kepeng kepeng jamaq holes, sometimes even selabar this event coupled with guardian requests at once.

3.Mengambil Wali
Its means that the guardian of the party taking can women directly at selabar or several days after the execution of this selabar and depends on the agreement the two sides (kapisuka)

4.Mengambil Sumpah
In the implementation of this promise to take is to talk about transfer of power sliding and aji spell accordance with the prevailing customs in the village or villages of origin prospective bride.

5.Sorong Serah
The core of the implementation of this transfer of power sliding is the official announcement of the marriage ceremony a man and a woman who is accompanied by the transfer of equipment bride groom or known by the name ajen-ajen.

6.Nyongkolan
In the implementation of family nyongkolan groom accompanied by the bride's family to visit the woman who accompanied by relatives and friends using traditional costume accompanied by gamelan drum even beleq.

7.Balik Lampak
Is one tradition to visit the homes of parents in particular women with both parents of groom.