Abstract

Mixed Marriage or Amalgamation is a unique reality in the development of culture in Indonesia. In the midst of ethnic diversity in Indonesia, it is possible for amalgamation to occur, so that understanding one another is a condition for harmony. This study aims to discover how individuals' social identities are formed in the primary group, that is in families who do amalgamation and how are individuals' social identity in amalgamation pairs. This study uses a qualitative exploratory research method with phenomenological studies from the perspective of Tajfel & Turner's Social Identity theory. The results of this study are the symbols of Tong Ngin Fan Ngin Jit Jong in Bangka community as the principle of inter-ethnic equality of the individual's social identity in mixed marriages, while the act of losing personal identity as a member of one ethnic group (depersonalization) is occurred in the West Kalimantan due to conflict background ethnicity past.

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