ABOUT SEUMAPA

In the Aceh traditional procession in the day between the bridegroom to the bride's house called "Intat Linto" there was an event called Seumapa, in the procession of a group of groom and bride facing each other in return for a rhyme, there was an oral war with poetic and hilarious funny language beautiful to hear. On each side, people who are capable of responding to rhymes have been determined. The person who became the person in front of that day was a special and wise person in issuing words and phrases.

Someone is usually one person of the groom. And one side of the bride. There were also figures as well as two linto parties, and two baro maidens. But still in the same condition, namely one party asks and one party answers, in what procession starts from the bridegroom or the Linto Baro party first, and then answered by the baro girl, at that time. The rhymes and poems expressed remain within the corridor of marital customs and about the agreements of both parties and also about religion, do not deviate from other words and languages, such as politics, pornography, incitement, slander, revile that can damage ukhuwah and silaturrahmi, even though there are slanted words that are quite thorough and do not offend both parties.

How many times and now there have been many changes, once a night because the intimate linto program last night, and someone who is a figure of someone who doesn't know, there are those who don't finish until morning because they are endless reciprocated, with conditions that do not guarantee that this custom will survive, being an arena for throwing rhymes, and words that are no longer mutually vilifying, there is no settlement, so it is disciplined by customary leaders as well as by wise figures in terms of preserving our cultural customs.