Korespondensi: KAJIAN MASYARAKAT BANJAR TENTANG UPACARA NGABEN AGAMA HINDU DIDESA TAJAU PECAH KECAMATAN BATU AMPAR PELAIHARI KALIMANTAN SELATAN

Abstract

Balinese people have a variety of traditions and ritual ceremonies, since ancient times the Balinese are used to carrying out ritual ceremonies that have their own meaning for the Balinese people. One of the ceremonies that are still carried out by the Balinese people in Tajau Pecah is the Ngaben ceremony (death ceremony). In this study, researchers used qualitative research methods. Qualitative research methods are research that intends and aims to understand the phenomena experienced by research subjects such as motivation, perceptual behavior, actions, and others. The results showed that Ngaben is a cremation ceremony originating from Hindus in Indonesia. Ngaben ceremony is a ritual performed to send the corpse in the next life. For the people in Tajau Pecah village, cremation is a happy moment because by carrying out this ceremony, parents or children have carried out their obligations as family members. Therefore, this ceremony is always greeted with joy without sobbing, they believe that sobbing actually only hinders the spirit's journey to reach Nirvana