Buná Traditional Wedding and Believe Through Ritual Signs to Respect the Ancestors and Nature (An Ethnography Research to the 3 Villages of: Wala, Nikir and Fatuk Metan, Tilomar of Covalima District Regions)

João da Silva
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João da Silva: State University of Malang Universidade Oriental Timor-Lorosa’e Dili, January 31st 2023

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science, 2025, vol. 10, issue 3, 521-549

Abstract: This research is referred to Buná traditional wedding and believe through ritual signs to respect the ancestors and nature, ethnography scientific research to the 3 villages of: Wala, Nikir and Fatuk Metan, Tilomar of Covalima district regions. The objective of this research is aimed to identify and discover the hiding story on Buná or Bunák to share and inform the new generation in the villages and somewhere else that Buná people live prior in the Buná societies in Timor-Leste and the West Timor of East Nusa Tenggara Indonesia. Buná is referred to an ethnic group and native people who live and dominate the central parts of the island state as called today as Timor-Leste. Buná is one of the ethnic which spreads out into west Timor since the period of before the Portuguese hold the land of Timor. This research is done on the traditional habits is done to respect the ancestors and the nature. The ancestors also believe to the stars are defined as based on its roles and function throughout their trust and believe in daily live. They respect the invisible spirits are highest then them, the ghost of the God, ancestors and nature. In some parts described about the wedding in and wedding out habit system. That is the parts of the people of the island is being dominated by the wedding in and out system habits based on the natural traditional systems. The methods of this research is qualitative descriptive research analysis based on the collecting the data through an observation, interview, collecting the narrators’ information issues, compiling together in compatible with the books references such as journal, which obtain from various links of website or internet. The finding and result of this research the indigenous communities of Bunak adopt the matrilineal wedding in systems and also respect the structures of the ancestors’ inheritance to the generation of Bunak itself. The people of Bunak societies are from separated living in central part of the island and including in west Timor, Atambua, East Nusa Tenggara of Indonesia. Their believe strongly to the invisible spirits’ forces of the ancestors and the nature as their God and they respect each other based on the structure of the clans’ families in each of Uma Lulik of different tribal houses.

Date: 2025
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