STUDY OF MORAL VALUES IN THE KASESENAN ORAL TRADITION OF THE TOUNSAWANG TRIBE OF MINAHASA

Abstract

This research discusses the oral tradition of kasesenan which is an ethnic tradition of the Tounsawang Minahasa tribe, which has been an old tradition and is still preserved today. The aim of this research is to describe the moral values ​​contained in the kasesenan oral tradition of the Tounsawang Minahasa tribe; as well as knowing how the government and society maintain the kasesenan oral tradition from the past to the present. Through qualitative-descriptive methods, researchers studied literature from the Tounsawang tribal community using interview and documentation techniques, both verbally and in writing. The results of this research provide insight that the kasesenan oral tradition has moral values ​​that color the social environment of society, where the relationship with the Creator, relationships with fellow living creatures, relationships with oneself, and relationships with the environment are very clear. Through these moral values, of course there is an exemplary attitude which contains responsibility and discipline to carry out the vision and mission that has been formed by the community itself, so that the Tounsawang tribe will remain ethnic in preserving the nation's culture