STRATIFIKASI SOSIAL, Kepemimpinan Tradisional Toraja dalam Dinamika Demokrasi Modern

Social stratification is part of Aluk in Torajan culture. The Aluk (as a religion) that is going to be described is Aluk Todolo; the name for the traditional religion before Christianity, Islam, and other new religions came to Toraja. According to the myth of Toraja, the whole of matter in this world originally began in the sky, including all the ancestors of creatures. This profane world is the image or the duplicate of the transcendent world. Leadership and social life also had been regulated above and downloaded through aluk to the human beings.In Torajanese myth, aluk was determined in the sky, consequently, aluk is divine. Puang Matua and all gods submit to aluk as a higher authority. Actually, Aluk Todolo is exceedingly greater than religion. That’s why (in this topic) social research has to be seen as a part of aluk.