A Commercialization of Healing Misfortune Treatment of Malay Community in Batubara District

Abstract

Malay society in Batubara District used a ritual of Misfortune as a healing treatment for any kind of disease. Misfortune  is a kind of cultural treatment for asking protection from God from Misfortune condition. This study was aimed to find out the latest additional role of Misfortune Ritual in Malay Society. Modernization and technology have endanger the role of Misfortune ritual as cultural value in the life regulation of Malay Society. The worst consequence is the elimination of the implementation of Misfortune Ritual in Malay Society of Batubara District. A qualitative descriptive research design was used to find the latest progress of this one of Malay faith under the implementation of the ritual.  This study found that the Ritual Misfortune is not only having a function as healing treatment which used a spell and pray but also provide packaging medicine for commercial.