The Ritual Calendar of South Aceh, Indonesia

The specificity of the Aneuk Jamee adat is correspondingly reflected in the structure and process in the Aneuk Jamee’s ritual calendar. Throughout this thesis, I have presented a wide-ranging discussion of the Aneuk Jamee’s ritual calendar constituting in its totality the annual ritual cycle that forms the foundation of the socio-religious order of the society of South Acèh. This discussion includes what the local people believe as well as what they do. Exceptions do occur, but by and large, what people believe, do, and enact are complementary. What they believe motivates what they do and how they act, while what they do and how they act reflects in verbal as well as in non-verbal expressions what they believe.