the atmosphere of eating in the rice fields

The main livelihood of the majority of Aceh's population is in the agricultural sector. At the end of the Fourth Five Years, Acehnese working in the agriculture sector, including crop, fishery, plantation, livestock and forestry, accounted for 993,318 or 71.68 per cent of the total labor force of 1,385,668. The high percentage of the population working in the agricultural sector shows that job opportunities in other sectors are not sufficiently developed.

The province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam has a wetland area of ​​258,266 hectares and dry land that can be used for agricultural activities of 386,742 hectares. The land is spread over all Level II Regions (Dati II). While those who are working on plantations, there are on large estates and smallholders.

Most of the existing plantation area is a community plantation that reaches 72 percent (the end of the Fourth Five-Year Plan). Smallholder plantation managed by individual farmers and legal entities on land with Hak Guna Usaha (HGU) status. Of the entire plantation area, approximately 77.2 percent is managed by the private sector.

Given so many expectations that rely on the agricultural sector so great public appreciation of its existence. Agriculture is not a new type of livelihood, this sector has been cultivated since the time of the ancestors throughout the hemisphere. Because this field is directly related to human survival. So as a form of appreciation, respect for the nature of the media and hope, then in the implementation of humans cultivate a series of ceremonies that have become a tradition in an area and carried out from generation to generation.

One of the appreciation of this society is manifested in various traditional ceremonies in the form of custom rituals that are different from one area to another. The ceremony is related to belief, religion, life cycle and some related to social society.

Judging from etymology, the ceremony itself is a celebration or celebration activity for some reason. Then the ceremony is held within the scope of customs in a sustainable manner and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

What is meant by custom is the rule about some aspects of the rules about some aspects of human life that grow from the efforts of people in a certain area in Indonesia as a social group to regulate the behavior of the members of the community.

One of the traditional ceremonies that are still carried out and continuously preserved especially in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam is the Ceremony Down to Rice Field or in Aceh language is often called Adat Tron U Blang.

This ceremony is an annual customary tradition in the field work carried out in rice fields by farmers, customary devices and communities, especially farmers who have rice fields to bless the fields.

Khanduri Tron U Blang done in three stages that is before descending into the fields, when the rice bear fruit and after the harvest. At each stage, traditional ceremonies are held with different aims and purposes that we can now review in their present contexts.