Kinship Systems in Indonesia ( I )

Kinship system is a very important part in the social structure. Every tribe in Indonesia has an alliance system that is different. Meyer Fortes argued that kinship systems of a society can be used to describe the social structure of the society concerned.

Kinship is a social units consisting of Several families who have blood ties or marriage relationship. Kinship members consisting of father, mother, son, daughter, grandchild, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, grandfather, grandmother and so on. In sociology-anthropology studies, there are Several kinds of kinship groups were are relatively small to large.

Kinship group

Kinship group is covering the people who have shared grandparents, or who believe that they are Descendants of a grandfather together According to calculations patrilineal line (Fatherhood).

A group is a union of individuals bound by a lack of elements at 6 items, namely:

1. The system of norms that govern the behavior of a group of citizens
2. Sense of personality groups Realize that all its citizens
3. Interaction between people that intensive medical help groups
4. The system of rights and obligations that govern the interaction between the various groups
5. Leaders who organize group activities, and
6. The system of property rights and obligations of productive, consumptive property, or Certain treasures.

Thus Spake kinship is a binding element for a kinship group, usually not all kinship group has 6 elements. Mudrok distinguish between three categories of kinship groups based on their social functions items, namely:

1. corporate kinship group, usually has the 6th elements. The term "corporation" Generally are related to the six elements items, namely the collective rights of a number of assets.
2. Sometimes kinship group, roomates Often do not have the element 6, is composed of many members, so that the interaction of continuous and intensive medical help is not possible anymore, but only gather occasionally only.
3. Kinship groups According to custom, usually do not have the elements on roomates to 4.5 and 6 events 3. Reviews These groups form is so great, so that citizens are Often already familiar with. A sense of personality Often Also determined by the customary signs.

Kinship groups roomates include first class is Kindred and large family, being the second group includes Deme, ambilineal family of small, family ambilineal large, small clan, a large clan, frati, and half of society.

• Kindred namely, gathering people help each other and do activities together with siblings, cousins, relatives and wife, older and younger relatives. At the start of a citizen who memprakkarsai an activity. And usually kinship is utilized to facilitate one's business.
• Extended family ie, kinship is composed of more than one nuclear family. Especially in rural areas, people are Generally broad family still live close to, and sometimes even still live together in one house. Large group of family kinship is usually headed by the oldest male member. In various societies in the world, extensive family ties so closely, so that they not only live together in one big house, but Also the household and act as if they were one large nuclear family.
• Families small ambilineal namely, Occurs when a large family to form a distinctive personality, the which is Realized by the citizens. Ambilinel small group usually consists of about 25 to 30 lives so that they still know each other and know each kinship.
• Namely small clan, kinship group consisting of large Several families descended from a single ancestor. Kinship-based relationships through the lineage of men only (patrilineal), or through the female lineage (matrilineal), numbering around 50-70 people msih they usually know each other and get along and usually REMAIN a village.
• Namely great clan, kinship group consisting of all the Descendants of an ancestor, who counted lineage male or female, figure that citizens clan lineage besr Dozens of generations ago it is no longer clear, and are already Often Considered sacred. Very large number of them already do not know the cause relative of relationships are distant relatives.
• Frati namely, a combination of patrilineal and matrilineal, and a group of local clan (clan bus is small, but it can also be part of a large clan). However, the merger is not always evenly distributed.