The role of dalihan na tolu in keep the inter-religious harmony at balige district. toba samosir regency

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International Journal of Development Research

Volume: 
7
Article ID: 
9085
6 pages
Research Article

The role of dalihan na tolu in keep the inter-religious harmony at balige district. toba samosir regency

Sahrul

Abstract: 

At the way of keep the Inter-Religious is not only of goverment responsibility, FKUB stands for Inter-Religious Communication Forum, and theologians but also the responsibility of custom institutions at the community. In Balige district, Toba Samosir legacy, custom institution that has an important role in the keep the Inter-Religious is Dalihan Na Tolu. Dalihan its means hearth. Na its means that and Tolu its means three. Dalihan No Tolu which means the hearth that has three poles those are hula-hula, kahanggi, and anak boru. Hula-hula is a person who give boru or daughter for married, kahanggi is sibling or a same clan and anak borus are son-in-law and daughter-in-law. The three elements that can a functioned as a philosophy of life, unifier between a religion or different religion, a place of agreement and conference, media of communication, and the medium of so conflict solution among the faiths. Therefore, until now there is no religion conflict in Balige, even though the muslim population are minority and the majority are catholic and christian protestant.

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