STRATEGY FOR PRESERVING BELIS CULTURAL VALUES STUDY ON TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF ADANG PEOPLE ALOR DISTRICT, EAST NUSA TENGGARA PROVINCE

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This study aims to determine the strategy of the Adang community's traditional institutions in
maintaining and preserving regional culture, especially the belis culture. This study used
descriptive qualitative method. Data collection techniques used interviews, observations, and
documentation studies. The Adang people in every stage of the implementation of traditional
marriages, the belis culture always uses the relics of their ancestors as belis goods in the form of
moko (H'hay), Gong (Ong), Weaving (Eng). Belis is an important element in the institution of
marriage, apart from being seen as a tradition that has noble values and a form of respect for
women, based on the implementation process and meaning/symbols in the belis culture, there are
many cultural values such as religious values, courtesy, togetherness, hospitality. , brotherhood,
respect for others, simplicity, friendship, kinship, honesty, tolerance and getting to know each
other. The influence of globalization is the main factor that makes things different from the past.
The values that fade in the belis culture in traditional marriages have shifted a lot both in belis
goods and in stages in the Adang community. The results showed that the strategy carried out by
traditional institutions was to replace these belis goods with other belis items such as money,
clothes, mocha with different motifs and sizes, gongs of different sizes. The values that fade in
the belis culture in traditional marriages have shifted a lot both in belis goods and in stages in the
Adang community. The results showed that the strategy carried out by traditional institutions was
to replace these belis goods with other belis items such as money, clothes, mocha with different
motifs and sizes, gongs of different sizes. The values that fade in the belis culture in traditional
marriages have shifted a lot both in belis goods and in stages in the Adang community. The results
showed that the strategy carried out by traditional institutions was to replace these belis goods
with other belis items such as money, clothes, mocha with different motifs and sizes, gongs of
different sizes.