Seminar Nasional Komisi Nasional Sumber Daya Genetik

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    Inventarisasi Tumbuhan Penunjang Tradisi Adat Batak Toba di Balige Kabupaten Toba Sumatera Utara
    (KOMISI NASIONAL SUMBER DAYA GENETIK, 2021-09-15) Simatupang ...[at al], Sortha; Balai Besar Penelitian dan Pengembangan Bioteknologi dan Sumberdaya Genetik Pertanian
    The Batak tribe is an indigenous people in North Sumatra. The Toba Batak tribe is a sub or part of the Batak tribe originating from Toba Regency, North Sumatra. In practice, the Toba Batak people often use plants for their traditional ceremonies.This study aims to reveal the knowledge and use of plants supporting traditional rituals/ceremonies according to the perspective of the Toba Batak people. Ethnobotany data were obtained by interviewing traditional leaders and elders in Sangkar Ni Huta Village, Balige District, Toba Regency. The selection of respondents was done purposively. Data was collected through in-depth interviews, participatory observation and inventory with informants, as well as focus group discussions. The collected data were presented descriptively. The results showed that the Toba Batak tribe used 10 plant species from 9 families which were used by them to support the implementation of their traditional customs. Plants were taken from the environment around them. Some of these plants were deliberately planted in the yard or in the fields, some were wild plants. Parts of plants used for traditional ceremonies of the Batak Toba people were fruit: 2 species of fruit (ie rice and kangaroo grass); leaves : 6 species (ie Fragrant Screwpine, betel, Iler , banyan leaf/fig tree leaf with its branches, palm leaf with its midrib, hanjuang leaf with its stem), whole plant: 2 species ( lily and iris). The most dominant plant species used in traditional Batak Toba ceremonies is rice.