North Sumatera

North Sumatera Province Address: Kantor Gubernur Provinsi Sumatera Utara: Jl. P. Diponegoro No. 30 Medan Telepon: 061 - 4512315, 4153300 Fax: - Email: bappedasu@sumutprov.go.id Website: www.sumutprov.go.id/

Wednesday, 09 February 2010    North Sumatra also knows as multicultural province which is inside consist of ethnics and religion. Beside Batak and Melayu is the original citizen of this province, there are a lot of other ethnics community who always life together. At the least, there are 13 tribes which is original tribe and four tribes is stranger tribe. This variety of tribes is not include Java, China and India yet who life together with them. This variety of tribe of course are followed by mosaic of customs and tradition and also the variety of customs and tradition in North is colored by Batak, Mandailing, Malay, Karo, Nias, Pesisir, Angkola, Pakpak and Simalungun tradition. The development of social culture is relative good, if we remember that the level of people awareness and measurement to understand the Pluralism, variety of culture, mosaic of culture and manners and also the harmony of intereligioun follower is high enough. Source: Indonesia Tanah Airku (2007).

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