Abstract
This study aims to describe the process of implementing of ngupati tradition in the Javanese community in Wawoosu Village, Kolono Sub-district, Konawe Selatan Regency, Southeast Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The method used in this study is a qualitative method with an empirical phenomenon approach in the field. Data collection was carried out using observation, interview and documentation techniques. In determining informants, the researchers used the snowball technique or collected information from one informant to another. The data obtained WERE then analyzed with the following steps: 1) data reduction, 2) data presentation and, 3) conclusion. The results of the study showed that ngupati tradition in the Javanese community at Wawoosu Village, Kolono Sub-district, Konawe Selatan Regency is as follows. First, calling relatives to help with the process of cooking the ingredients to be used in the tradition, Second, inviting family, relatives, and neighbors to carry out reciting a prayer for ngupati tradition, Third, this ngupati tradition is carried out and led by the village priest or which is entrusted by the family carrying out the tradition, Fourth, reciting the prayer, which begins with tahlil to send prayers to the family who has died. Fifth, the reading of surah ngupati at Wawoosu village is only Surah Yusuf, Surah Maryam, and Surah Yasin, Sixth, after finishing reciting the prayer, there is a joint eating activity as a form of togetherness. The seven participants in the tradition who will go home when the tradition is over will be given a blessing (a food parcel given as alms to the family at home) which contains side dishes of rice and ketupat. There are two kinds of ketupat used at Wawoosu village, namely ketupat kepel and ketupat sinta.
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