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BATAK PEOPLE : ATTRACTION OF LAKE TOBA

By: Ahmad Amzar Hasyimi Ahmad Sazali, Noralisa Ismail, & Fauziah Deraman

Do you plan to visit Medan? If you do, don’t forget to include Samosir Island in your itinerary. Based on personal experience, this place is worth to visit in order to know the history and culture of Batak people. We have an academic trip to Medan on 3-6 Mac 2016 under Tour Planning and Guiding (HTT353) course. One of the tour highlight is a visit to Lake Toba where in the middle of the lake locates Samosir Island that is inhabitated by Batak community.

We check in Danau Toba Cottage that provides a breathtaking view of the lake. After breakfast, we took a boat ride from the cottage jetty to Samosir Island. The journey took about 45 minutes to the first Batak Village known as Ambarita Village. The first attraction were Batak longhouse. Their houses built facing the mountain due to the belief that their God will see the house that nearest the mountain and give them more sustenance. The design of the house is unique as they have front door only. This is relate with their belief that once they are given sustenance by God, it will remain in their house. Their houses consist of three parts which at the top (store), middle (sleeping place) and the lowermost (place their livestock, mainly pig).

There is a ‘virgin house’ that specifically use for unmarried, virgin girls. All unmarried girls in the village will stay with their parents during day time and will sleep at this ‘virgin house’ at night and taken care by special appointed nanny, similar to grandmother. The architecture of the house use certain objects crafted to the houses such as lizard, puppet and women’s breast. Based on the story, the lizard symbolizes prosperity. Meanwhile, women’s breasts symbolize fertility of their woman and loyalty to their husband. The puppets usually symbolize both male and female residents. In their community, women are responsible to earn their living, normally by planting vegetables and fruits.

Other than that, the king’s house have a balcony for announcement and to be held regarding the penalization for people that proven guilty. It is normally a death sentence and before behead execution, the wrong doers will be prisoned in the lowermost of king’s house for a year. The prisoner will be feed all the delicious foods throughout a year to gain the weight. On the day of death sentence execution, Batak villagers will first perform a dance called sigale-gale to make other villagers aware of the execution day. After done with behead procedure, the villagers can choose any body parts to be their meals for that day.

The second Batak village is Tomok Village that is smaller than Ambarita Village. It’s just next by Ambarita village but still need to ride a 20 minutes boat to reach there. The main tourist attraction is their King’s Tomb. Before proceed with the visit, we have to wear their piece of traditional cloth called ‘ulos’

There are five major tombs that made out of rocky sculptures . First is the King’s Tomb name Ompu Saribuntu Sirabunta. The locals believed that the king was the most intelligent and yet possessing black magic. Once the king died, the throne later fell onto his grandchild, Ompu Niuju Banta Naibatu Sirabunta that buried in the second tomb. The third tomb is second King’s Muslim Advisor known as Tengku Muhammad Said that came by to aid the King during war. The fourth tomb belongs to Dr Ladewich, the German philosopher that came by and successfully introduce Christianity to Batak people until today. The last tomb own by Anting Malela, woman that said to be the prettiest during that time and also a girlfriend of king’s grandson. This King’s tomb been preserved by depending on the tourist donation. Similar to Ambarita Village, the local Batak people of Tomok Village also set up their souvenir shop for visitors.

However, there are several tourist tips if you plan to visit this place such as:

a) When shop for souvenirs, handicrafts or any of their products, never touch or show your interest if you are not serious on buying. They will conclude that you will purchase upon touching their selling items.

b) Always refer to your small notes of currency exchange as the seller will manipulate the price by converting it to our local currency, sound to be very cheap but actually they manipulate the figure.

c) Reject the offer nicely because they will approach you when you pass by their shop / stall (unless you have tour leader’s flag with you). If you made them angry, they may cast a spell or even ghosts silently.

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d) Be careful with the words you are saying, it could be offensive towards the locals and the locals are surely strict.

e) Since the population of people in Samosir Island are 99% Christians and 1% Muslims, kindly observe the exposure of selling items (especially cloth) to their dogs that freely mingle around the store. Maybe not to buy can be a wise decision!

Map of Lake Toba. Samosir Island in the middleEntrance of Batak Village

King’s tomb at Tomok Village Group Photo in front of Danau Toba Cottage

Group photo in front of Batak houses ofBeheading demonstration by local tour guide

Some trip captions....

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MAJLIS SAMBUTAN HARI JADIBagi meraikan hari kelahiran staf-staf Hotel UiTM

Dungun, satu majlis sambutan telah diadakan pada 29 Mac 2016 bertempat di Dewan Bidara Hotel UiTM, Dungun bermula pada jam 12.30 tengahari sehingga jam 2.30 petang. Majlis ini yang julung kalinya diadakan bertujuan untuk memberi sedikit penghargaan kepada semua staf yang telah sekian lama berkhidmat di hotel ini. Majlis sebegini juga akan diteruskan pada masa akan datang dan akan diadakan setiap 3 bulan sekali. Tercetusnya idea mengenai sambutan hari kelahiran ini disuarakan sendiri oleh Pengurus Besar hotel bersama pengurus-pengurus bahagian yang lain.

Perjalanan majlis dimulakan dengan bacaan doa dan disusuli pula dengan ucapan daripada

Pengurus Besar Hotel UiTM Dungun iaitu En Samsul Bahri Usman. Seterusnya, sesi penyampaian hadiah kepada para staf yang meraikan hari jadi bermula dari bulan Januari sehingga Mac 2016. Majlis juga diserikan lagi dengan sesi memotong kek secara beramai-ramai. Sedikit jamuan juga turut disediakan kepada staf pada majlis tersebut. Semoga majlis sebegini dapat merapatkan lagi ukhwah sesama staf dan juga memberikan suntikan semangat kepada mereka untuk terus memberi perkhidmatan yang lebih cemerlang kepada Hotel UiTM Dungun khususnya kepada para pelanggan dalam menyediakan servis yang terbaik kepada mereka.

Oleh: Haslina Che Ngah

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Acara Amal Jom Free Market 2016Oleh: Fatimah Abd Ghani

Tanggal 3hb Mac 2016 iaitu pada hari Khamis, telah berlangsung selama 2 jam bermula jam 10.00 pagi hingga 12.00 tengahari satu acara amal iaitu ‘Jom Free Market 2016’ bertempat di Dataran Sura. Ia telah dianjurkan buat pertama kalinya di sini dan merupakan acara anjuran Kelab Pensyarah Fakulti Pengurusan Hotel dan Pelancongan secara sukarela. Acara amal ini melibatkan pengunjung daripada keseluruhan warga Universiti Teknologi MARA (Terengganu).

Objektif program ini adalah bertujuan:

1. Membantu para pelajar dan kakitangan Universiti Teknologi MARA (Terengganu) yang sememangnya memerlukan bantuan untuk menempuh kehidupan seharian di kampus.

2. Mendidik masyarakat sekeliling sikap suka memberi, sikap berkongsi kegembiraan dan juga mengelakkan pembaziran

Apa itu ‘Free Market’?

Ia sama seperti konsep pasar lambak iaitu menawarkan barang terpakai yang masih elok untuk digunakan atau barangan baru, makanan dan minuman serta servis.

Apa keistimewaan ‘Free Market’?

Ia tidak melibatkan sebarang transaksi duit. Matawang pada hari tersebut cuma budaya sopan santun, tidak berebut-rebut, meminta dengan sopan, mengambil sekadar yang perlu dan berterima kasih apabila mendapat barang atau servis

Program amal ini telah mendapat sambutan yang begitu memberangsangkan daripada warga kampus samada sebagai penyumbang mahupun sebagai pengunjung. Perancangan masa depan ‘Free Market’ adalah untuk meneruskan acara amal ini secara berkala iaitu sekurang-kurangnya 2 kali setahun yang melibatkan pihak luar. Acara ini boleh diadakan juga khusus di tempat sasaran penduduk yang dikenalpasti berpendapatan rendah di sekitar Bandar Dungun. Ini sekaligus dapat meningkatkan kesedaran di kalangan warga kampus tentang kepentingan bersedekah serta berkongsi kegembiraan bersama insan-insan yang kurang berkemampuan.

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Oleh: Wan Nor Bayah Wan Kamarudin, Amanina Mat Ghani, Malina Hanum & Wan Nazriah Wan Nawawi

Majlis Anugerah Kesarjanaan

Majlis Anugerah Kesarjanaan (MAK) yang telah berlangsung pada hari Kualiti dan Inovasi UiTM (T) sekitar bulan Februari 2016 adalah satu inisiatif pihak universiti untuk menghargai usaha para peyelidik dan penulis yang terdiri daripada para ilmiah dan akademia disamping meningkatkan motivasi dan semangat pensyarah-pensyarah lain untuk bergiat aktif dalam penyelidikan dan penulisan.

Gabungan penglibatan daripada pensyarah yang baru berkhidmat dan menjangkau lebih daripada 10 tahun perkhidmatan menggambarkan sikap kesatuan antara staf akademik. Di dalam majlis gilang-gemilang tersebut, Terdapat beberapa kategori yang dipertandingkan diantaranya adalah Anugerah Sarjana Ulung, Anugerah Sarjana Dinamik dan Anugerah Sarjana Harapan, keseluruhan bagi setiap anugerah dan anugerah khas. Agenda utama yang difokuskan dalam penulisan Hotnewz pada kali ini adalah tentang penglibatan para pensyarah Fakulti Pengurusan Hotel dan Pelancongan yang cemerlang dalam setiap kategori yang dipertandingkan dan juga antara nama yang tercalon dalam setiap kategori. Tahniah kepada para pemenang dan juga yang tercalon. Semoga warga FPHP lebih bersinar dalam kesarjanaan.

ANTARA YANG TERCALON ADALAH:

PUAN JAZIRA ANUAR 1. PUAN MALINA HANUM2. PUAN NORISTISARAH ABD 3. SHATTARPUAN SULAIHA MOHD ISA4. PUAN WAN NOR BAYAH WAN 5. KAMARUDINPUAN WAN NAZRIAH WAN 6. NAWAWI

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