Javanese Slametan in Culture the Framework of the Ceremony for Seven Months Pregnant Interchange Able Meaning of Seven Batik

Endang Ruswanti , Nia Puspita Hapsari , M. Unggul Januarko , Medina Diyah Kusumawati

Esa Unggul University, West Jakarta and Indonesia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35609/gcbssproceeding.2020.11(117)

ABSTRACT


The research problem is that the community is less motivated to carry out the culture of Mitoni, even though the program is very meaningful for the mother and child in the womb. Pregnancy is believed to be the phase in which the prospective baby has begun to interact with the surrounding environment through an intermediary of a mother. Psychic relationship between mother and child has begun to be closely intertwined from this phase. For the people of Java, especially in the regions of Yogyakarta and Surakarta, mitoni culture is still widely practiced. Pregnancy is part of a human's life cycle. Method research kualitative Therefore, the existence of the prospective baby is always celebrated by the people of Java with a ritual called Mitoni, derived from the word pitu or seven. That's because the mitoni is held when the age of the womb enters the seventh month This ritual is intended so that prospective babies and mothers always get safety. The purpose of this article is for Indonesians to preserve this culture as gratitude to God Almighty


Keywords: Slametan, Ceremony, For Seven Months Pregnant